Ballet Performance is Either Going to be Really Cool or Really Stupid
The sound of the Earth moving is too subtle for the human ear and too unpredictable to dance to, for most ballerinas.
But that will change for eight minutes on Tuesday, April 4, when San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Muriel Maffre performs to sounds triggered by seismic movements in the Hayward Fault. Those signals will be transmitted via the Internet from the University of California, Berkeley, to San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House.
“Ballet Mori” is the brainchild of Ken Goldberg, who is an artist and a UC Berkeley professor of industrial engineering, computer science and robotics. He and his team have engineered a system that allows seismic waves to be transmitted into a concert hall in real time to activate audible sounds, dance and lighting.
Um, cool, I guess.
The professor behind this actually seems like a pretty cool guy, and the article talks about some of this other projects.
Muriel Maffre rox my sox!
Comment by Anonymous — June 14, 2006 @ 8:55 pm