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Cathy van Eck

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Cathy van Eck Interview

Interview by Merche Blasco

Categories everyday tools, gestures, performance, sensors

Merche Blasco interviewed me in February 2020 on my work with objects and gestures, on how I use everyday actions and sonic transformations and the role of narration in my pieces. In this video the interview is combined with several…

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We Are Prepared performed by Maulwerker

We Are Prepared

Categories breath, contact microphones, everyday tools, feedback, gestures, performance, sensors

This piece has been composed for and developed together with Steffi Weismann, Katarina Rasinski and Ariana Jessulat of Maulwerker. We are prepared is based on a similar set-up as Empty Chairs. Again chairs equiped with loudspeakers and sensors are used,…

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empty chairs performance sensors feedback

Empty Chairs

Categories everyday tools, feedback, performance, sensors

Empty Chairs stages three empty chairs, each with a loudspeaker attached. A system of live recorded sounds and electronic processing brings them to life. A performer interacts with the chairs by moving them, placing them in new formations, and trying out different…

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La Nature dans le Miroir

Categories everyday tools, gestures, outdoor, outdoor performance, performance

As a human being I try to observe nature by catching it. I make pictures of beautiful landscapes and recordings of bird sounds. But this process of catching is also transforming nature. I use trails made in the landscape so I…

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In Paradisum

Categories contact microphones, everyday tools, gestures, performance

There is not much to say about this performance: I simply try to find the perfect sound for eating an apple In Paradisum (2019)performance for apple, performer and live electronics

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performance live electronics tree

Groene Ruis

Categories contact microphones, everyday tools, performance, plants

This performance takes two simple every day objects–a plant and a hair dryer–to investigate in our relationship with our “natural” environment. Looking for transitions between human, plants and machines, the story of the nymph Daphne, who transforms herself into a…

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in blik tactile transducer body shaker

In blik

Categories everyday tools, performance, tactile transducers

In in blikinstead of musicians, five tin can towers are performing. The tin cans are humming softly, singing aloud or just breathing . At certain times though, they also try to break out of their tin cans: they start to…

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