The Wilds

Mixed-reality performance

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The Wilds is a mixed-reality performance work for three dancers integrating music, light, and immersive visual media. Through choreography, sound, and generative visuals, the piece explores patterns of nature—from the subatomic to the cosmological—revealing interconnection, entanglement, and adaptation.

The performance follows three bodies navigating their relationship to each other and to their environment, with movement mapped and extended across the stage through real-time media systems. Contemporary dance and dance-theater choreography is paired with an electro-acoustic score built from field recordings and sound design, alongside visuals composed of pure light and 3D LED wall media.

Using motion capture, machine learning, biofeedback, real-time animation, generative music, spatial audio, and responsive lighting, The Wilds creates a live feedback loop between human physicality and technology—imagining an emergent, interrelated future between humans, nature, and machines.

As part of the Awareness Lab team, I developed and implemented audio visual integration and programming

Collaborators:
Jesse Fleming, Laurel Jenkins, Lewis Pesacov, devika v. wickremesinghe, Maria Garcia, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Cláudio Medeiros, Michelle Harvey, Shane Bolan

Max/MSP, Max for Live

Unreal Engine

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