Trickster
The Trickster is a collaborative sound and interactive installation with choreography by Khoi Bao Le and visual interactivity by Sofia Paraskeva. This performance is an offshoot from Lauten’s new work The Two-Cents Opera, involving interactivity between movement, music, and image projections triggered by dance and wearable components.
A playful character performed by Khoi Bao Le (a young choreographer from Viet Nam in training at Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance), unexpectedly triggers sounds from his own movement and costume details, while his image is projected on screen. Within a sound environment of pre-recorded electro-acoustic music by Elodie Lauten, the performer initiates with his movement a new layer of interactive sound samples in an improvisational framework programmed in MAX/MSP by Sofia Paraskeva. Elodie Lauten is a classical and experimental composer whose work has been presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, the New York City Opera, WNYC, The Kitchen, the Performing Garage, the Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama, the Soho Baroque Opera, Downtown Music Productions, AFMM, Interpretations, the SEM Ensemble, The Whitney Museum, and at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. Her current discography includes 27 titles to-date, on both independent and major labels. She has taught on the composition faculty at New York University.
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