The Fashioned Sound Body links the physical touch of bodies to sound composition through the use of a hand woven electronic textile jumpsuit.
Performance of The Fashioned Sound Body March 1st 2025
Presented by Stillmoon Arts Society
Programme notes:
The Fashioned Sound body a live performance weaving music and dance together through the use of e-textiles. The performance involves hand woven textiles with embedded electronics to sense contact which senses pressure. In the performance the musician and creator of the suit Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell. The sound of the clarinet is first altered by his own movement, and then by the Dancer Isabelle Kirouac. This causes a feedback of the sound inspiring movement and then movement creating sound resulting in 10 minute tapestry of music and dance.
Isaac bio:
Isaac Rufus is a liminal being exploring the edges, in betweens, intersections and connections of disciplines and mediums. He is Immensely curious in understanding underlying systems and their emergent properties, and how the boundary between disciplines starts to become fuzzy the deeper one goes. The resulting practice has taught him many skills from weaving, dyeing, dance, clown, programming and electronics, to wood, metal, and paper working. He often frames his works through the lens of audio creations. As a clarinetist he studied music composition at Concordia University where the themes of embodiment of sounds and the clarinet came to fruition in the piece called Embodied Clarinet. Using amplification and shadows to highlight the subtle sounds and movements of clarinet and dancer. After University he created and composed music for dance performances and films such as Constellations. He continued embodiment of sound by giving different audio frequency physical locations in space in his work High {In} fidelity. His latest work The Fashioned Sound Body expands on the themes of embodiment of sound, intersections and interaction between mediums. In The Fashioned Sound Body he links the physical touch of bodies to sound composition through the use of a hand woven electronic textile jumpsuit.
Isabelle Bio:
ISABELLE KIROUAC is a transdisciplinary artist, choreographer, educator and mother living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Informed by over twenty years of practice in dance improvisation, somatic practices, site specific installations, immersive performances, contemporary circus, as well as more recent explorations into the realm of olfactory art, her artistic research is inspired by sensory inquiries and ecological relationships, connecting humans and more-than-humans. In collaboration with mycologist/artist Willoughby Arévalo, she created the Art & Fungi Project, developing artistic work and experiential activities inspired by fungi and how they help to shape and connect our world. Isabelle has presented her artistic work extensively across Canada, the USA, Mexico, Colombia and Europe. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
Photos from the creation process
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