If you missed the fantastic Re-Presenting Ireland mixed bills at DanceHouse, as part of this years festival, footage of Mary Wycherly and Jürgen Simpson’s performance of Receiving Systems 2 (RC2) on 25th April is now available to view online. Click here for another chance to see the performance. 

‘Receiving Systems is a collaborative series of studies implementing composed structures and real-time interaction between sound and movement. It is inspired by an enquiry into natural order and disorder in movement and sound, and the non-linear nature of our perceptual systems.

It is a constantly developing series and Receiving Systems 1(duration 10 min) was presented as part of the first anniversary celebration of DanceHouse in Dublin on 7 January 2008. Receiving Systems 2 (RC2) was performed on four occasions during the Dublin Dance Festival as part of the Re-Presenting Ireland series of dance events. Each of RS2′s concert performances formed a developing relationship between sound and movement such that each of the events could be regarded separately but could also be regarded as forming a single evolving entity. Receiving Systemsattempts to move beyond a common sound/dance relationship often found in contemporary choreographic practice which typically implements precomposed materials or relatively fixed sounds in a live context. Instead, specially designed software and a Lemur multitouch screen interface allow a very high level of interaction to take place in which individual movement gestures can be reacted to with a wide palette of sound parameters.’

Jürgen Simpson