Receiving Systems 2 at DanceHouse

An introduction and performance ofReceiving Systems 2, performed by Mary Wycherly (dancer) andJürgen Simpson at DanceHouse, Dublin, on 25 April 2008 as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.

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.