Michaela Davies
Duty harnesses the bodily convulsions produced by electric muscle stimulation to control performers in a work composed for fourteen handbells
COMPOSITIONS FOR INVOLUNTARY STRINGS
MIDI compositions send electrical impulses to performers’ muscles, forcing the musicians to ‘play’ their instruments involuntarily.
Sculptural objects utilizing redundant technology and household items
Sonified seismic data translates onto the bodies of performers in a string quartet via electric muscle stimulation.
Waltzing Matilda has been appropriated by many Australians as a ballad of the fair go, with an absence of knowledge of the history behind it.
An investigation of the body as sculptural object, and absurd self-portrait of the artists...
Subsoma speaks to human reliance on data, highlighting the lack of agency we have in respect of global systems
Using the sensibilities of synaesthesia, the work references artist Roy De Maistre, correlating the light spectrum to musical notes
kinetic shadow sculpture
SYDNEY HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF
A satellite of the worldwide Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project, the Sydney Reef installation brought together over 360 creators
A site specific investigation into the precarious nature of mining and hazardous waste
Game On explores the challenges faced as technology advances to a point where ‘games’ become indistinguishable from reality
A conversation in collage
Based upon the medical potential of the Katzen Klavier (cat organ), Das Menschen Klavier (human piano) was created for psychiatric purposes
Is the pianist playing, or being played? Control is interrupted by electrical impulses which force his muscles to move involuntarily
Power is always performed. These performances are enabled by the acceptance of individual agency in complex systems...
An interpretation of Reich’s Clapping Music for two players on one double bass
Electronic sound and field recording
GOLDFISH VARIATIONS FOR TWO PERFORMERS
A rule-based score comprising a set of instructions for two performers, where the musical outcome is determined by the movements of a goldfish.
Two performers breathe into each other’s bodies to produce beat frequencies
FM-2030 utilizes programmed electric muscle stimulation to generate involuntary movements in string players.
Electrically [de]controlled musicians address questions concerning challenges that arise with the evolution of human–machine assemblages
A distorted realisation of a classic children's clapping game, Down Down Baby explores musical exchange through oral and kinetic practices
Within a field of musical indeterminacy, the musical masochist’s contract is enforced physical obligation determined by electrical impulses
Shame incorporates the gaze of the other, and ruptures the spontaneous and unreflected performance of the primordial bodily self.
Advertising prides itself on disruption. But what if you could disrupt advertising?
The work ... suggests to us that we think of it in terms of the space which it claims, a textual space, a discursive space-act...
My Mind Y/Our Body investigates the choreographic possibilities of brainwave sensors and electric muscle stimulation technologies.
Each performer wrestles to play through an imposed obstruction, to emphasize the way struggle, and even failure, shapes a performance
ATTENTION IS A SCARCE RESOURCE
Social organisation and individual accountability break down as mediated interruption creates a compulsion in its users to engage
This participatory audio/video installation aims to induce a shared moment of art viewing lassitude
‘Robotic’ elements are inserted into an enduring emblem of Western classical tradition
THESE HANDS I THOUGHT WERE MINE
Embodied experience and sense of agency is disrupted and extended to expose the limitations of agency and question the boundaries of the self
STRUCTURED IMPROVISATION WITH EMS
EMS is used to achieve a primary aim of mid 20th century experimentalism - to remove oneself from the activities of the sounds that one makes.
Unintended Consequences utilizes gesture as a symbolic representation of language to explore intention and consent in communication.
