Frequencies of gesture is an ongoing performative-research project that explores the ways in which gestural repertoires can be captured and recreated as situated and somatic live archives. By using mixed techniques – ranging from live drawing, calcographing techniques and data visualization to motion analysis, interactive sonification and artificial intelligence – we aim at studying how gesture’s traces can be archived through a technical device and then re-situated in the performance. Our goal is to show how these mediation techniques allow us to draw attention to several gesture’s qualities that wouldn’t be otherwise perceptibles. From this perspective, we question the way in which embodied gestural know-how can be externalized trough technical inscription (e.g. sound and graphic traces) and then re-embodied in a new material form (e.g the performative digitally-informed gesture).

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