The Fluxus Tree (2012-13)

The Fluxus Tree is an automatic composition centred around interactions with a collection of experimental interactive sculptures. Dancers (or anyone else) interacts with the sculptures and so creates data from sensors which generates electronic sounds and music notation live. This live notation is then played by the composer and occasional (and excellent) 'cellist Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

First performed as a part of Degrees of Synchrony: an original dance and music performance investigating the boundaries between synchronisation and simultaneity. Performance involving acoustic and electronic sound with choreographer Jane Turner and composer-performers Tom Hall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Richard Hoadley. Also featuring the dancer Amy Holly.

13th May 2012, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

Composed by Richard Hoadley, performed by Richard Hoadley, Jane Turner, Amy Holly and Cheryl Frances-Hoad, May 13th, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK.

Other performances:
(2013) The Fluxus Tree
a part of duets for dancers and musicians
kings place, london, April 14 2013

(2012) The Fluxus Tree
Data from dancers interacting with sculptures generate notation live, which is then played by the composer and 'cellist Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
Jane  Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Richard  Hoadley
INTIME 2012 Symposium, 19th-20th October, 2012, University of Coventry, UK

(2012) The Fluxus Tree
An interactive sculpture for dancer using data from sensors to help generate notation live, which is then played by the composer and 'cellist Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
Jane  Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Richard  Hoadley
LIVE INTERFACES: Performance, Art, Music, 7th-8th September, 2012, ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK

Related to...

Related to the automatic, algorithmic and live notation compositions Fluxus and Calder's Violin and

(2012) Phase Transition - a dance and music performance experiment Richard Hoadley and Jane Turner Recital Hall, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, Sunday 28th October 2012 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and

(2013) Three Streams for gesture and cello CMPCP Performance Studies Network International Conference Cambridge UK, 4-7 April 2013

The piece is primarily composed in the music programming environment, SuperCollider.

This piece uses the software INScore and Guido significantly, both currently being developed by the Grame Computer Music Research Lab.
- More information on INScore.
- More information on Guido.

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Papers involving Fluxus Tree

(2012) The Fluxus Tree: notating musical movement
INTIME 2012 Symposium, 19th-20th October, 2012, University of Coventry, UK

Other video and audio examples

None at present.