Receiving Systems is a collaborative series of studies implementing composed structures and real-time interaction between sound and movement. It is inspired by an enquiry into natural order and disorder in movement and sound, and the non-linear nature of our perceptual systems.

It is a constantly developing series and Receiving Systems 1 (duration 10 min) was presented as part of the first anniversary celebration of DanceHouse in Dublin on 7 January 2008. Receiving Systems 2 (RC2) was performed on four occasions during the Dublin Dance Festival as part of the Re-Presenting Ireland series of dance events. Each of RS2's concert performances formed a developing relationship between sound and movement such that each of the events could be regarded separately but could also be regarded as forming a single evolving entity. Receiving Systems attempts to move beyond a common sound/dance relationship often found in contemporary choreographic practice which typically implements precomposed materials or relatively fixed sounds in a live context. Instead, specially designed software and a Lemur multitouch screen interface allow a very high level of interaction to take place in which individual movement gestures can be reacted to with a wide palette of sound parameters.

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