BENOIT MAUBREY /// AUDIO CLOTHES /// 1983 – …

Benoît Maubrey is the director of ‘Die Audio Gruppe’ a Berlin-based art group that creates mobile and multi-acoustic sculptures in public spaces, and performs with electronic clothes .

Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses that make sounds by interacting with their environment. They use – among other electronic instruments – light sensors that enable them to produce sounds through the interaction of their movements and the surrounding light. Via movement sensors they can also trigger electronic sounds that are subsequently choreographed – or ‘orchestrated’- into musical compositions as an ‘audio ballet’. A variety of other electronic instruments ( mini-computers, samplers, contact microphones, cassette and CD players, and radio receivers ) allow them to work with the sounds, surfaces, and topographies of the space around them in a variety of solo or group choreographies. Rechargeable batteries allow them to operate both in- and outdoors.

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