Sonic Dream

1983      Sonic Dream

Performances: Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA: Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington DC;

Joyce Theater, New York, NY; Lincoln Center, New York, NY; Mohave Desert, California, City Center, New York, NY

This seminal work, which led to Janney’s later piece, Heartbeat, experimented with a performers capacity to generate sound, and considered the human body as an instrument. “I hooked up a video camera to my interactive electronics, so a dancer could use his whole body to generate a sound score—like ‘dancing to your own dancing.’”

Project credits:
Tom Kruzinzki, Jesse Sayre, Berred Ouellettte/Project Manager

Project sponsors:
Oberheim Electronics, Rockwell International-AIM Division, Center for AdvancedVisual Studies, MIT