Playing with Resolume

Thinking about this idea of improvisation and being inspired by the movements of others, it seemed like a good environment to incorporate video in real time.

Who Got The Flower?!

It is about an event in Pontcharra (a small town in France, near Lyon). During the event, various Break Dance battles are organized and for a few years they have created a session called "The Colab" where both dancers and musicians improvise simultaneously, creating a constant dialogue between the two.

Inspired by this event, it comes to my mind a dance class where they proposed different improvisation exercises. The exercise consisted of improvising around the room and when we cross with someone, the idea was to copy the movements we saw, be isnpired but those movements, adapt it and add our style to it. Then, continue dancing.

Interactive installation?

Thinking about this idea of improvisation and being inspired by the movements of others, it seemed like a good environment to incorporate video in real time.

I found an interesting idea, creating an interactive installation where you could capture the movement of a dancer and generate short clips to later be able to mix them. These clips projected in a different sequence than the original could serve as another form of inspiration for the dancer's improvisation.

For the visuals, I had these types of images that I've been creating for a while:

The fact of superimposing one image on the other generates another perception of movement, something more abstract, which can also serve as inspiration to create different movements during an improvisation.

I would somewhat follow the visual aesthetics of projects like the following by Klaus Obermaier or Rhizomatiks Research:

Resolume

To simulate how the final result of the interactive installation could be, I started to practice with Resolume, putting together different videos of simple movements and creating different effects to later superimpose them and see what results could be achieved.