Noisefloor 2017: Manoli Moriaty & Shona Roberts - Symbiosis

Manoli Moriaty & Shona Roberts – Symbiosis

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Symbiosis is a collaborative performance engaging practitioners of discrete art forms within a technologically unifying context. Exploiting a diverse range of emerging and traditional technologies, performers operate within a feedback loop where sound and motion are continuously influencing one another. The performance aims to highlight the emergent properties of interdisciplinary interaction in reference to the biological phenomenon of symbiosis which describes close and persistent interspecies associations. As such, mutualistic and parasitic types of associations are translated as different modes of interaction facilitated by gestural recognition technologies and tactile devices. The resulting live work combines sound and motion not as distinct artistic practices complementing each other, but as an amalgamation of disciplines within an obligate interdependent system.

Manoli Moriaty is a music composer and performer, academic researcher, and event producer. Based in Manchester, UK, his artistic practice is informed by themes of indeterminism and collective action, manifesting through works utilising data sonification, unorthodox use of technology, and testing the relations between body, mind, and machine through interdisciplinary collaborations. The resulting works range a wide spectrum of mixed-media performances, generative-music live systems, acousmatic compositions, and durational installations. His works have been presented at international music festivals and academic conferences such as ICMC, SMC, MANTIS, Supersonic Festival, Surge Festival, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the Audiovisual Arts Festival of the Ionian Academy. He has been awarded funding by Arts Council England and IdeasTap towards creating new works, and by Sound and Music for his curatorial activities as founder of the sound art collective Metanast.