“Backchannel”

TMT Hosts choreographer/dancer David Appel and composer/sound artist John Morton for the premiere of Backchannel, the probing and adventurous outgrowth of their new 2023 collaborative project.

Backchannel, funded by NYSCA, re-defines the relationship between dance, music, and technology through the creation of a dancer-activated sound environment, where movement and proximity of the performers’ bodies generate specific musical responses. A Lidar (light detection) sensor, centered in the space, traces the charted and improvised actions of the dancers, triggering sound as their individual and collective location shifts.