Sound Choreographer Body Code

This performance is a collaboration between a dancer (Kate Sicchio) and musician (Alex McLean), which creates a feedback loop connecting live choreography and live coded music. This piece not only explores live coding of sound, but also how code is used to develop choreography and vice versa. Choreography and coding become interchangeable organisational practices which allow for composition to take place in real time.

This feedback loop travels through code, music, choreography, dance and back through code: Diagrammatic choreography reacts and reconfigures in response to music; The dancer interprets the live choreography as an embodied computer; Both the edits of the live coder and the movements of the dancer modifies the code which creates the music, therefore feeding back into the choreography.

The result is a resonance through sound, movement, perception and language, a live flow of influence forming a whole system. As complexity increases, the limits of language and the body are reached beyond, where the character of the whole system is exposed. The live choreography and code is projected for the audience, so cycles of linguistic and diagrammatic construction and destruction can be observed, alongside the analogue development in music and dance.