Viva Voce celebrates vocal performance art in an interactive and experimental context and through this lens explores voice, body relationships, and the self. In the process, the work investigates the root of oral tradition and its impact on shared information in the virtual versus physical social space. In real-time visitors play and re-compose performance and documentary sequences of three vocal artists—Juliana Snapper (Los Angeles), Shelley Hirsch (New York), and Pamela Z (San Francisco)—by interacting with a 3D sonic sculpture on an iPad. Sung and spoken passages appear synchronized to the visual portrayal of the protagonists on floating screens in the gallery space. By improvising with the iPad interface and triggering text and vocal passages, visitors become not only intimately introduced to the vocalists; they turn into performers themselves.
Team
Katharina Rosenberger, Composition, Artistic Direction • Heiko Kalmbach, Video, Co-Artistic Direction • Michael Schmitz, iPad Design, App Programming • Jason Ponce, Multimedia Programming • Vance Galloway, Set Design, Technical Direction• Joe Kucera, Audio Engineering • Nick Drashner, Audio Mastering
Interview log Shelley Hirsch
June 10, 2011, Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, Shelley's backyard
Videos: Heiko Kalmbach
All Viva Voce clips on Vimeo – Juliana Snapper, Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z →
First shown: January 2013, Gallery Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA
In collaboration with video artist Heiko Kalmbach
Juliana Snapper, Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z – voice
A project of the Mediaprojects Award / sitemapping of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture
Project website: www.vivavoce.ch