Attach the electrodes to your face. Control in and outflow of music with sensors linked to arms. Your eyebrows, lips, cheeks and forehead dancing. In this macabre performance – electric stimulus to face – Daito Manabe returns to Clandestino. Also on this occasion he plans to interact with the audience. Last year it was light bulbs placed in the audience that changed colors by frequencies of his dj-set.
This performance time it is a “face visualizer” and “face instruments”, where one utilizes ones arms as “input-output device” and converts sensory obtained data to sound. The electrodes can function as in and output, interchangeable via switch. This creation was developed and self-tested by Daito Manabe over three months (he also tested us at the festival office during a painful visit to Tokyo). Video has gained astonishing popularity on YouTube with over 1 million viewings within a month after the upload. The piece was influenced by the work of the French researcher G.B. Duchenne “Mecanisme de la physionomie humain” from Icono-Photographique and the Australian artist Stelarc’s “Ping body”. Coming from this trail of thought Daito experiments with myoelectric sensors and low frequency pulse generators intending to copy the expression of one face onto another. Is it possible to fake a smile, without human emotion? In this case it is difficult to refrain from roaring with laughter.
