22Sound – [object] – dance
A holistic approach to interdisciplinary composition
Introduction
The origins of interactive dance can be traced back to John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s collaboration Variations V of 1965, yet vigorous research on developing wearable or camera-based motion-tracking sensors has only been conducted by a larger number of composers since the 1990s. As a consequence, debates and criticisms regarding the usage of technology in the dance technology community have been directed towards artists who were “eager to work with newly arising digital tools”, but who had “little understanding of the inner workings of electronics or computer code”, which in turn created trivial works (Salter 2010: 263–264). This ...
