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Container or music series
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Wellington 2018
Manoli Moriaty, Lucie Lee
Krotos is an installation combining acoustic sounds and digital projections controlled by social media interactions. The surfaces of the shipping container housing the audiovisual installation are adorned with several percussive devices forcing the metallic frame in producing a range of resonances and vibrations. In turn, the stimulated surfaces are fed into an array of microphones, with the collection of sounds being amplified and broadcasted through a set of speakers. The patterns of the vibrations are determined according to specific twitter channels monitored by the installation’s system – single tweets can trigger a device in performing an actions, or a combination of streams may initiate a longer motive throughout the whole structure. Along with the sonic elements, the social media interactions also determine the visual material projected within the container. As with the sounds, actions on twitter launch visualisations made up from a mixture of pre-rendered dance videos and live images retrieved from twitter.
Manoli Moriaty is a composer, performance maker, and academic researcher. His practice focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration and is informed by themes of in/determinism, collective action, and human-machine interaction. He has collaborated with dancers, choreographers, actors, and electronic musicians towards producing works in a diverse range of formats, including live mixed-media performances, interactive installations, and electroacoustic compositions. His work has been presented internationally at contemporary art festivals, academic conferences, and new music concerts, and has received support by Arts Council England, Sound & Music, and IdeasTap.
Lucie Lee is a dance artist, practitioner, choreographer, performer and academic.
She is specialising in contemporary dance technique (Release and Cunningham), improvisation and contact improvisation, physical theatre, performance skills and run integrated creative workshops for children and adults with learning disabilities.
The Lucie Lee Dance Company is an emerging professional Dance Theatre Company, which embrace the use of digital technologies in their dance performances. The company produces experimental dance theatre and site-specific works.
Barry Carter, Adam Hart – programming
University of Salford – In-kind support
British Science Association
Manchester Science Festival
Cornbrook Creative
