Sound Body as Embodied Poetic Interaction

The Nucleo de Dança Redes at the State University of Campinas has been developing multimodal artistic research in mixed reality in an interactive, immersive, dialogical, and in nets. In this article we present some research focus of the group referencing two works “De uma Margem a Outra” and “Jardim das Cartas”. Researchers in the areas of dance, music and audio visual have been raising discussions about an “expanded sound body” that stems from the interaction between movement, sound, music, video and technology in a mixed environment. A body that extends in sound, and an embodied sound in movement in an expanded perspective of the body in “presence” with more complex contours.

Another point is in the observation and understanding of the event of multimodal improvisation in a mixed environment as a path and an interactive and connective articulation between the communication agent that participate in the net as an expressive path that is shown in the interactive exploration. Based on interactive practices and on the concept of net, we work methodologically towards a “poetic interaction” in the field of complexity. A fertile ground in which improvisation and composition become coordinated paths for the unfolding of a dance which starts from the connectivity and from the interaction between sound, body movement, image and technology.