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This Body Functions Effectively

duration:13'
year:2019
instrumentation:French horn
commissioned by:Samuel Stoll
FIRST PERFORMANCE
date:tbd
place:tbd
pianist:Samuel Stoll

Program notes

(...)There is a body and there are its attachments. They function, coupled, to construct architectures of extended operations. The body inhabits a local space but can also project its presence elsewhere. The body speaks here but can be heard over there. Tasks are performed in proximity but can be mimicked by surrogate robots. Transduced, physical actions extend into virtual task environments. This body functions effectively. We constantly and seamlessly slide between the physical and the virtual, the proximal and the remote. That's what technology coupled to the body constructs. It's a terrain of operation that is bounded neither purely by body physiology nor by body scales.(...)

Stelarc, from Stelarc, The Monograph, ed. Marquard Smith, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 2005.

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