Soundpainting with Alvaro Moreno
Sat, 16 Mar
|Cultural Conversations
Bring your instrument, your dancing body or your passion to a captivating multidisciplinary live composition technique that unites music, movement, and theatre.


Time & Location
16 Mar 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Cultural Conversations, Morrison Square, Nelson
Guests
About the event
This will be the 3rd Soundpainting workshop that has taken place in Whakatū. Join Alvaro Moreno for a unique and immersive experience:Soundpainting is a captivating multidisciplinary live composition technique that unites music, movement, and theater in a dynamic artistic collaboration. Utilizing a universal sign language, known as Soundpainting gestures, a Soundpainter directs a group of performers to spontaneously create a unique and immersive performance in real-time.This innovative approach empowers the conductor to guide musicians, dancers, actors, and other artists through a vast palette of possibilities, including tempo changes, sound textures, movement motifs, and emotional expressions. Soundpainting transcends conventional boundaries, enabling a fluid and interactive exchange between the conductor and performers, fostering a sense of collective creativity and exploration. The result is a mesmerizing live experience where the audience witnesses the birth of an ever-evolving composition, brimming with spontaneity, improvisation, and artistic synergy.Soundpainting celebrates the boundless potential of human expression and invites…