Larynxians

As the audience enters the performance space in Seoul, the performer dances around them with slow movements similar to Tai-chi. Audiences realize the performer's body projects sounds onto them when the reflective elements on her body suit faces them. They also realize that they are able to reflect the hyper-directional sound onto others as the performer does with her own body parts and surrounding objects. The other performer in Seattle watches it through a camera over the internet, generates an improvised sound source and sends it to the performer based on audiences' reactions and sonic input from cell phones and the internet. As time goes on, audience members becomes participants and they create a multi-layered soundscape with reflected sound beams all together to create a truly interactive telematic experience.


Larynxians_telematic performance Proposal
	Project Description	Technical Description	Artists


	Larynxians_telematic performance Wearable Sound Performance using Ultrasonic Sound Beams *This project was awared Honorary mention at the media art project competition, P.Art.y 2007 'Network Performance' run by Art Center Nabi in Seoul, Korea. The festival was held at Nabi in Seoul in Setember 14-16th. Though my team could not participate for financial reasons.

An interactive dance performance incorporating directional telematically generated sound	A Laryxnian is envisioned as a creature having unique vocal organ. It flickers on their body in spiral shape when they attempt to make a sound. It collectively or individually projects sound from various parts of their body. This mobile organ appears to be wandering around the body without stationary position as if the identity of Larynxians, aliens to our "normal" communication methods, floats in the unknown zone. The unknown zone is a piazza for aliens who have been shunned by "normal" communication methods. It is a flux and an in-between space. Inspired by this concept, we propose to create a telematic performance between Seoul and Seattle with a mobile-wearable sound projection system using customized directional speakers. The performer/dancer in Seoul projects sound, which is generated in Seattle, onto their own body, the audience or surrounding objects with slow, meditative dance. As the directional sound can be reflected like light, audience members become participants by reflecting the sound onto other audience members. The performer/musician in Seattle improvises the sound source based on participants' performance in Seoul, transmitted back via a broadband A/V link, as well as sonic input provided by the internet and cell phones. Directional sound beams are created by using arrays of small ultrasonic transducers, enabling us to manipulate sound projection in an way analogous to light. The dancer in Seoul projects the sound directionally using the transducer arrays mounted in her body suit. The mobile-wearable sound projection system turns the performer's body into not only a controller of a sound but a cyborg which is hybridized with the sound system and projects sound by itself. All apparatus besides transducers are hidden in a body suit that the performer in Seoul is wearing, or hidden away where the audience cannot see it. The body suit also contains the spiral laryngeal elements that become visible in the room lighting as the dancer moves the corresponding speaker arrays towards the audience.
User Scenario	As the audience enters the performance space in Seoul, the performer dances around them with slow movements similar to Tai-chi. Audiences realize the performer's body projects sounds onto them when the reflective elements on her body suit faces them. They also realize that they are able to reflect the hyper-directional sound onto others as the performer does with her own body parts and surrounding objects. The other performer in Seattle watches it through a camera over the internet, generates an improvised sound source and sends it to the performer based on audiences' reactions and sonic input from cell phones and the internet. As time goes on, audience members becomes participants and they create a multi-layered soundscape with reflected sound beams all together to create a truly interactive telematic experience.
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