Project :: Impossible Alone

Impossible Alone

Impossible Alone is an interactive installation exploring the space between musical improvisation, creative movement and games created in collaboration with the dancer and movement practitioner Tiff Chan.

Using Kinects to track the pose and movement of two individuals, the installation hides a myriad of sonic interactions – invisible instruments that both provoke and demand creative movement. However, this interactive soundscape may only be explored by the participants whilst they mirror each other’s movements exactly. Responding to both each other and what is heard, they inevitably provoke each other to move in unfamiliar ways. How long can they persist in the uncharted journey of shared creation?

Impossible Alone began as an exploration into how constraints within interactive music affects participants’ engagement and sense of creative control. As development progressed, we became ever more interested in the social effects of the work, and the potential of the work to form a connection between the two participants.

People

Tim Murray-Browne
Tiff Chan
Jan Lee
Mark D. Plumbley
Nick Bryan-Kinns
Guerilla Science

Research Areas

Interactive Art
NIME
Interaction Design
Collaborative Musical Interfaces
Sonic Art
HCI
Qualitative Methods of Evaluation

Links

Two festival goers playing with IMPOSSIBLE ALONE at the Secret Garden Party, 2011.

Impossible Alone installed at Queen Mary University of London

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