DanceMad from OKLO
A segment from Palindrome's 2008 performance of OKLO at the Amber'08 Festival in Istanbul. Dan Hosken, composer; Madeleine Shapiro, cello. The cellist's virtuoso improvisation is processed live with live-captured cello sound layered on top of the performance all done in Max/MSP and controlled by the composer. At the end, video from a camera focused on the cellist is analyzed in realtime by the program EyeCon and that motion data is passed to another computer where it is used to control sound using the program Max/MSP.
From Robert Wechsler's program notes:
The Oklo Phenomenon is a piece about what you need to do to change your life. Sometimes it takes a catastrophe. Sometimes it only takes a cello.
It has ten dancers, three musicians (including a renowned experimental cellist), various interactive (motion tracking) effects and...uranium.
"The sense that nothing will change unless we are shaken to our roots - like after a major catastrophe, a bomb, an earthquake, whatever. Survivors know what I'm talking about. You know what they say, "if it doesnt kill you, it makes you stronger." Well, Bull****.
"A funny piece about serious catastrophes".