Downtown Replay for Live Interactive Sound and Dancers (2015, 2016, 2017)

History and context of the piece

Downtown Replay is a site-specific, interactive performance for live sound and dance. The sound is designed in Max for Live, using Ableton Live Suite. I place microphones all around each site where it is being performed. I capture sounds from these mics in real time and feed them through my program in Max to transform the sounds.

Downtown Replay has been performed in a few iterations - on the streets in Kansas City, in small venues in Kansas City and Asheville, NC, and a concert hall for an electronic music festival.

Lauren Thompson and I dreamed up the idea to set up an interactive experience featuring sound and dancers manipulating space. We got a commission to put the piece together for the 2015 Season of the Art in the Loop project in Downtown Kansas City. This performance in 2015 took place at the Main Street Bus Terminal on 10th St, which is an outdoor terminal. Microphones placed around the benches captured wonderful detail of peoples and buses. It gave me a lot of great sounds to manipulate live.

It was remounted again at a different venue for the Art in the Loop 2016 season. This time the performance took place at Ilus Davis Park which has a huge water fountain. I placed microphones all around the park and got water, people, animals, and other noisy sources to manupulate live.

The piece was then remounted at the 2017 KC Fringe Festival (pictured above), and then again at the Asheville Fringe Festival. Downtown Replay was selected into the Electronic Music Midwest conference in 2017.

For more info please visit: KC Art in the Loop & Downtown Replay Bios