This isn’t Solo

‘This isn’t a solo’ is a performance that shares control with the audience of an electroacoustic and interactive instrument (Knurl) through a set of iPads controled by the audience. Knurl lab is a web platform used to allow this mechanism. This project is an artistic exploration about audience engagement and Interactivity, revealing the listener’s participation in abstract communication with digital art and music.

This project creates an opportunity in the classical music scene where the audience has complete control of the visual and audio settings of a performance. Extensive research and design of technology and psychology as well as prototyping and creative coding were necessary to realise it. At the centre of it is the new musical instrument “Knurl” able to receive information from the audience. This creates the unique opportunity to experience a new way of watching music concerts.

Sabrina Verhage and Rafaele Andrade developed this performance through several iterations to optimize audience engagement in this experience. Their objective is to reach a borderline where the audience’s choices belong to the performance as much as the performer does.

Performance times This isn’t Solo:

Friday 17 February

19:00, 21:00, 23:00 h.

Location: Theater de Veste.

This project is an artistic exploration about audience engagement and Interactivity, revealing the listener's participation in abstract communication with digital art and music.