The Triad Entanglement
Location: The Crypt Gallery
Date: Saturday 15 April 2023
Time: 7 - 7.15pm, 8 - 8.15pm
Director: Friendred Peng
Visual artist: Pierre Engelhard
Haptic researchers: Snehesh Shrestha, Ishan Tamrakar
Performers: Ramilda, Geo Aghinea, The audience
Photographer: Jaime Junior Carranza Valdez
The Triad Entanglement explores an improvisatory composition amongst a trio consisting of a cellist, a vocalist, and an audience, in a live interactive performance. This piece delves into an intricate interplay between live physiological data gathered from audience members, haptic on-body feedback, improvisatory music, and projected visuals. The Triad Entanglement: During the performance it becomes apparent that the audience and the musician each wield the power to exert a profound influence on the live performance. This dynamic interaction between the two parties can shape the very fabric of the musical experience, rendering it a captivating and rich sensory journey of sights and sounds. The Triad Entanglement explores how the bodies of audience and performer can become interconnected and intertwined. By imbuing the performance with a shared experience, it transcends the boundaries between musicians and audiences. With the aid of sensors, variations in the audience's physiological data are monitored, such as EEG, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels. Variations in the rhythms of these data serve as a catalyst to alter patterns produced by tactile input devices worn by the performers. The intensity of fluctuations in the audience's physiological data will have a potent impact, driving the musician towards variations of more profound musical expression.