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Laetitia Sonami, Pamela Z, Donald Swearingen, Visual Brains, Melody SumnerLaetitia Sonami, Pamela Z & Donald Swearingen perform the U.S. Premiere of Body Electric, a multimedia collaboration, at Other Minds 4, 1997 (November 10, 1997)

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Body Electric, a multimedia collaboration by three leading Bay Area experimental electronic musicians, received its U.S. Premiere at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater.

Laetitia Sonami, Pamela Z & Donald Swearingen perform live in tandem with 30 video monitors and super-projection screens programmed live by Japanese video artists Visual Brains with text by Melody Sumner.

Pamelz Z triggers electronic samples and distorts her operatic voice through her full-body, electrode-controlled BodySynth; Swearingen activates a grand piano by interrupting infrared beams with choreographed waves of snare drum sticks; and Sonami controls electronic sounds with an elbow-length "lady's glove" that is fitted with extremely sensitive pressure and motion sensors.

Commissioned by the American Embassy in Japan, Body Electric was first performed in the fall of 1996 in Tokyo, as part of the American Embassy's 13th annual Interlink Festival.


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Artist/Composer: Laetitia Sonami, Pamela Z, Donald Swearingen, Visual Brains, Melody Sumner
Date: 1997-11-10 00:00:00
Source: Other Minds
Label / Recorded by: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; Experimental; Sound Art

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

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All Other Minds programs available, with additional print and photo materials, at http://www.radiOM.org. Coming soon you will be able to view our complete list of titles not yet digitized at http://www.radiOM.org/titles.

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