PERFORMANCE WORK
‘Hello, World’! excerpt (2022)
An immersive adventure for young audiences which combines performance, projection and spatialized sound to create a unique performance art experience for very young children and older audiences. Visuals created with Google TiltBrush and Unity Game Engine.
Featuring guest performers Alejandro Bastien, Julio-Cesar Sauceda, with spatial audio composed by Shomit Barua
This single-channel excerpt of “Hello, World”! was performed as part of the DBR Lab Showcase at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY.
ANTON LAPOV’S ‘KNN FM v.3’ (2022)
Performative exploration of an interactive sound environment. Audio drama that is revealed by bodily improvisation in real-time.
Anton Lapov is an artist, musician and curator from Ukraine. His practice combines methodologies of humanities with computational aesthetics. Recently Lapov is developing interactive sound environments. https://cargocollective.com/antonlapov
This work was performed as part of the DBR Lab Showcase at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY.
Don G (2021)
Produced by Melanie Holm and ONOH for as part of a SEED residency through [Nue]Box in Phoenix, AZ Performed at [Nue]Box studios on September 4, 2021 Melanie Holm | soprano voice, musical arrangement, choreographer ONOH | media design, live projection controlled with TouchDesigner Adele Etheridge Woodson | violin performance www.melanieholmsoprano.com/ www.xonoh.com www.adelebrooke.com Produced in part through the generous support of Dr. Daniel Bernard Roumain
SECRET KNOTS II (2021)
Using Ableton, TouchDesigner, OSC and MIDI controllers, ‘Secret Knots II’ continues my exploration of live audio-visual composition and networked performance art.
sECRET KNOTS (2020)
'Secret Knots' explores networked performance using OSC, musical synthesis made with Happy Brackets and live interactive visuals generated by Touch Designer. This piece, though still in process, is a strong representation of my current research interests at ASU, namely how to create or express in a performance environment where the computer is the central collaborator. This performance was part of the Daniel Bernard Romain’s Fall 2020 DBR Lab cohort and broadcast on YouTube thanks in partnership with the ASU Kerr Cultural Center on December 5, 2020.
PLINK! PLOINK! PLONK! (2020)
Devised and directed by artist and scholar Taylor Jane Cooper, ‘Plink! Ploink! Plonk!’ is a performance for very young children and tells the story of three bugs on a search for home who discover the joys of friendship, sharing, and planting magic seeds along the way. Taylor Jane devised this socially engaged work in response to two project-based residencies with very young children, and invited me to perform the roles of Ploink and Plonk to her Plink at the i.d.e.a. Museum in Mesa, AZ. I was honored to join her in presenting this work to the Mesa community, including a very full performance for Mesa-K-Ready. Thank you, Taylor Jane, for your work and talent!
DOT: a dance performance for the very young (2018)
What if we danced the way that children draw? Performers in Dot explore how children move their bodies when they create art and share a performance directly inspired by the movement and artistry of children ages 2-5. Very young audiences will enter a blank world made from paper that the adult dancers transform through color, line, and shape over the course of the performance. Directed by Amanda Pintore.
COLOR PLAY: theatre for the very young (2018)
Color Play asks children the following imaginative questions -- what does blue sound like? What does green do when it wakes up in the morning? How does orange dance? Under the direction of Amanda Pintore, performers in Color Play explore how children think about color through a performance directly inspired by the ideas, movements, and words of children ages 2-6 in our Play Lab series, a research-based space for very young children and their caregivers to create with artists. Very young audiences will enter an interactive world where colors make noises, have wild dances, and create delightful surprises. The performance itself will involve live music, exploratory art, and moments of interaction with the audience. Color Play is built in collaboration with the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS and the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, MO.
CALAVERA PUPPETS PROJECT (2017)
Bread & Puppet has offered me a pathway to making art with many hands. I wanted to put my new skills to use in a communal that way also served as the vehicle for my first celebration of Día de los Muertos holiday. These calavera puppets were created by a multicultural team of women, and performed in the Nelson Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) and at the Mattie Rhodes Center (Topeka, KS) as part of their respective November's Día de Muertos festivities. The creative team behind these puppets: Jasmine Deng, Mariel Ferreiro, Blanca Herrada, Vanessa Reynaga, Katherine Romero, Kim Trang, Sandra Yoder (with help from Jett and Ivory), and myself (lead designer/builder/puppeteer).