Remote Gestures: A Prototype Performance

Remote Gestures: A Prototype Performance is based on a research project led by Roberto Alonso Trillo and Peter A C Nelson that sought to link creative processes and devices that were difficult to access during COVID period. Using our native disciplines as a test case, we explored how to remotely connect a violinist and a painter over any distance with a minimum latency and maximum creative exchange. This went through multiple research iterations until we arrived at a functional combination of Miichael Palumbo’s AllHands protocol for sending low-latency OSC messages, Stanford University’s CCRMA Jacktrip for video and sound, and a range of our own bespoke mapping systems for transferring data from a violin bow into a surround sound system, a 360 cinema and a robotic calligraphy system. Remote Gestures is a special event where we want to test these remote collaboration protocols in a live performance and to share our research with our art, music and technology communities here in Hong Kong.