The Echo I Touch

Franziska Baumann’s solo concert reflects relations between embodied acoustic voice and disembodied spatialized voices by means of gestural communication via SensorGlove interface. The interface between her as a singer and the performing system is part of an integrated system which serves communication. Spatially expressed gestures and the sound processes coupled to them allow for many relationships of vocal embodiments and disembodiments and open up multi-layered staging categories and parameters of gestures controlling vocal sound or compositional parameters. Benders, accelerators, gyroscope and ultra-sonic sensors connect the real world of physical phenomena and gestures via serial port to the computer. To a certain extend the specific characteristics of sensors and their respective expressiveness ask for certain gestures. The singer is free to add additional meaning through gesture communication. This interplay of “necessary movements” and communication of ideas through music and gestures opens up various artistic perspectives on body sculptures in movement and sound, an esthetic of a hybrid emerges. The sensor glove becomes a costume, a prop, a visual performance in itself, which can cause different expectations and bewilderment among the audience. Unlike wireless applications, it communicates a specific presence and technological expression