If someone told you they were going to make music from shadow puppets, you’d think: How? Why? What sound does a shadow make anyway? But no, design group Sembler, in collaboration with shadow puppeteers Feral Theatre, used computer visioning techniques to transform movements from the Feral Theatre’s production of The Sound Catcher into a generative music piece. Taking the visual data and translating it into sound, providing an audio interpretation of the dynamics of the play.
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