Pain Creature

Vincenzo Madaghiele, and Arife Dila Demir

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Pain Creature is an interactive wearable instrument for improvisational movement and sound-making. The instrument materializes the distinct qualities of the performer's chronic pain through visual-tactile-auditory aspects. In this semi-improvised dance performance, Pain Creature embodies the dancer's pain as an unwanted presence, a parasite living on her skin that responds to touch with abstract sonic utterances. The piece unfolds as the dancer explores her relationship with the creature, accompanied by a texture of evolving electronic sounds generated by a live electronic musician. As the piece progresses, the performer explores the choreographic and sonic possibilities of the instrument in a dialogue with the electronic sonic background.

Citation

Vincenzo Madaghiele, and Arife Dila Demir. 2024. Pain Creature. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15028083 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@article{nime2024_music_32,
 abstract = {Pain Creature is an interactive wearable instrument for improvisational movement and sound-making. The instrument materializes the distinct qualities of the performer's chronic pain through visual-tactile-auditory aspects. In this semi-improvised dance performance, Pain Creature embodies the dancer's pain as an unwanted presence, a parasite living on her skin that responds to touch with abstract sonic utterances. The piece unfolds as the dancer explores her relationship with the creature, accompanied by a texture of evolving electronic sounds generated by a live electronic musician. As the piece progresses, the performer explores the choreographic and sonic possibilities of the instrument in a dialogue with the electronic sonic background.},
 address = {Utrecht, Netherlands},
 articleno = {32},
 author = {Vincenzo Madaghiele and Arife Dila Demir},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15028083},
 editor = {Laurel Smith Pardue and Palle Dahlstedt},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {September},
 numpages = {5},
 pages = {109--113},
 presentation-video = {https://zenodo.org/records/11047691},
 title = {Pain Creature},
 track = {Music},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2024/nime2024_music_32.pdf},
 year = {2024}
}