In Music for Flesh I the only musical instrument available to the performer is his own body. Performer’s voluntary muscles contractions produce kinetic energy, an acoustic sound which is captured by the Xth Sense biosensors and deployed as only sonic source. At the same time the biological signal undergoes a feature extraction which provides several control parameters for the real time processing of muscles sounds.
Performer uses his body not only as a controller, but, more importantly, also as a truly real musical instrument; he is capable of actually creating music in real time exciting his muscles fibres.

Xth Sense biosensing wearable technology is an open-source based, ongoing project developed by the author.

Further info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/music-for-flesh-ii/

Xth Sense: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/

Marco Donnarumma - Music for Flesh II - Biophysical Music for Xth Sense

Excerpt from live music for the multimedia theater and interactive dance piece Eyes Fluttering in Kneecaps. A motion reactive system manipulates recorded samples of the dancers voices and other pre-recorded material. 
  Field recording, programming and live electronics by Marco Donnarumma
  
  More infos: <a href="http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/eyes-fluttering-in-kneecaps">http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/eyes-fluttering-in-kneecaps</a>/
  
  

Marco Donnarumma - Mutation#1

TheSAD - 'Reharsal of Bodies'  ||  From the free release: 'Rules of Purification' on Smell the Stench (AUSTRALIA)
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TheSAD - Reharsal of Bodies

TheSAD - 'On the Sofa'  ||  From the Compilation: 'Kraeka Compilation #10′ on Digital Kranky (DE)
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TheSAD - On the sofa

Alibia - Inedia (TheSAD Version)  ||  From the free release: 'Inedia RMXs' on MODR (ITALY)
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Alibia - Inedia (TheSAD Version)

Generative electroacoustic music for non-musicians.
More infos: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/high-spheres/

Marco Donnarumma - High Spheres - Generative electroacoustic music for non-musicians

TheSAD - 'Phobia' || From the Compilation: 'Dejine:rec Compilation #1' on Dejine:Rec (JP)
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TheSAD - Phobia

Marco Donnarumma - Ominous - Incarnated sound sculpture for Xth Sense

Live at Pure Data Convention, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 23 July 2009.
Live computing with augmented bass guitar and self-designed software for physical computing C::NTR::L.
Free download of this live recording: http://www.thesaddj.com/download/
More infos about the project: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature
Software free download: http://cntrl.sourceforge.net


Marco Donnarumma - I C::ntr::l Nature Live @ Pure Data Convention 23-07-09

Live @ Re-New Festival Opening, 18 May 2010

Generative electroacoustic music for non-musicians.
More infos: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/high-spheres/

Marco Donnarumma - High Spheres - Participatory Soundscape Concert 2010

Marco Donnarumma (DE) is an artist, performer, stage director and scholar weaving together contemporary performance, new media art and interactive computer music since the early 2000s. He manipulates bodies, creates choreographies, engineers machines and composes sounds, thus combining disciplines, media and emerging technologies into an oneiric, sensual, uncompromising aesthetics. He is internationally acknowledged for solo performances, stage productions and installations that defy genres, and where the body becomes a morphing language to speak critically of ritual, power and technology.
http://marcodonnarumma.com/

Marco Donnarumma

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