Shumpei Nemoto
Shumpei Nemoto

Night Sea, Island, Wave(s)

In this work, the sound of the performer moving his body on different surfaces is captured by several microphones, constantly sent to a computer, and gradually transformed by a pre-built audio program which then emanates from the speakers.

Sometimes the performer moves by imagining the sounds that his movements will produce, and sometimes he moves in response to the sounds coming from the speakers. In both cases, the performer's movements are instantaneous.

The lighting system is partly linked to the audio program, which allows the sound to operate and trigger the light.

The work explores various ways to dance with and visualize the sound while instigating the viewer's acute perception of sound and broadening their relation to it.

 

performed at Toyooka Theater Festival and supported by UnterwegsTheater in 2023

Sono Solo (2019/2020)

It is a project that explores various ways in which the sound of the performer moving on stage, captured by several microphones, is amplified, looped and transformed into a soundscape through the use of computer programming.

The aim of the project is simply to research the relationship between movement and sound which are spontaneously generated by a performer.

 

supported by Scenario Pubblico/CZD in 2019

This performance occurred at HebelHalle Heidelberg / Künstlerhaus UnterwegsTheater in 2020 as part of TECart Dance, organized by Bernhard Fauser & Jai Gonzales.

It captures me, It moves me and It’s gone

It is a project that explores various ways in which video projections and live video footage can capture and transform live action on stage.

It uses a video camera to capture live performance which is projected on the screens and the images captured by the video cameras can be modified by computer programming to generate delay which creates disparity between live performance and live video footage, as a result, it can challenges viewer’s perception of time and space.

*this work presented both as installation work and performance work.

 

supported by Choreographishes Centrum Heidelberg and Steep Slope Studio in Yokohama, Japan

SIDE / SIDE

It involves two screens, two projector and two dancers. It contains five studies that examine how one movement theme can be developed into several variations which was inspired by the music compositional method.

The images on the screen shift from the text that describe what piece is about and to the pre-recorded video of the choreography. The screens are half transparent which provides viewer to see inside (live performance) and the video at same time.

Use of a plate or a glass are to arise the question of what makes clear distinction between what is choreography and what is not and when the movement becomes dance in our daily life.

 

supported by Konstnärsnämnden and Scenario Pubblico/CZD

A sound 3/3

A research that inspired by the work of Steve Reich.

I happened to listen one of his work "Come Out" when I was hunting for the music that can be used for the choreography I was creating at the time. And when I got to know how the music was composed and what material was used, I began to interested in Reich's works.

The phasing which is a one of compositional technic (it is to play same phrase on two or more musical instruments and by one of the player gradually shift the tempo of phrase, creates complex composition) that he used and by discovering the phasing technic l started to question, what happen if I do phasing in dance? How can I implant the phasing in choreography?

 

supported by Konstnärsnämnden and Choreographisches Centrum Heidelberg

A sound does not view itself as thought

 

A research that inspired by the idea of “Let movement be just movement.”

Which was referred from a composer John Cage's thought "Let sounds be just sounds" and the research aims to explore the ways to create the movement without specific narrativity and depart from my ordinal construction of the choreography.

 

supported by Konstnärsnämnden