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Performances with electroacoustic Clothes

By Benoit Maubrey

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Keyword: public space, performance, live, interact, digital, body, audio
Genre: Event, Contextual, Conceptual, Collider, Collaborative
Type: Performance, Installation, Audio

BenoÃ®t Maubrey is the director of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic clothes (past examples: AUDIO BALLERINAS, AUDIO GEISHAS, AUDIO STEELWORKERS, BONG BOYS, AUDIO PEACOCKS…). Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that make sounds by interacting with their environment.

For example the AUDIO BALLERINAS use — among other electronic instruments– light sensors that enable them to produce sounds through the interaction of their movements and the surrounding light (PEEPER choreography). Via movement sensors they can also trigger electronic sounds that are subsequently choreographed –or “orchestrated”– into musical compositions as an “audio ballet ” (YAMAHA choreography). A variety of other electronic instruments (mini-computers, samplers, contact microphones, cassette and CD players, and radio receivers) allow them to work with the sounds, surfaces, and topographies of the space around them in a variety of solo or group choreographies.

Biography

since 1983 numerous performances and exhibitions (a selection):

Ars Electronica (1985), Steirischer Herbst (1986), Musée de La Villette/Paris (1986), Festival les Arts au Soleil/Lille (1990), TISEA/Sydney (1992), MEDIALE/Hamburg (1993), ISEA/Helsinki (1994), Sound Art Festival/Hannover, Kryptonale/Berlin (1996), SONAMBIENTE/ Akademie der KÃ¼nste Berlin(1996), 38eme Rugissants/Grenoble (1996), Tokyo City Opera/ NTT-ICC (1997), International Symposium of Electronic Arts/Chicago (1997), Ostranenie Festival/Bauhaus Dessau, International Symposium for Elecronic Arts/Chicago (1998), The Kitchen /NYC, International Dance and Technology Conference/ Phoenix,Arizona(1999), Danzdag,/Kulturhus Aarhus, Denmark, “Audio Ballerinas and Electronic Guys” /Theater am Hallesches Ufer , Berlin, Monaco Dance Danses Forum (2000), Tollwood Festival/Munich, Postdamer Musikfestspiele, Kunstmuseum/Wolfsburg, Berliner Festspiele, New Haven Festival for Arts and Ideas, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Musee des Arts et Industrie,/Saint-Etienne (2001), Location One/NYC, HIGH FIDELITY, Musiktheater im Revier/Gelsenkirchen (co-production mit Berndt Schindowski), Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fÃ¼r Gegenwartskunst, Berlin., Potsdamer Festspiele (2002), Lowlands Festival/Holland, Gracia Territoria Sonor/Barcelona (2003) “Sonoric Atmospheres/Ostseebiennale der Klangkunst, Thailand New Media Art Festival/Bangkok

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