"Can you hold my limb please?"

V. Modesta

 

Music Tech Fest Performance

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Viktoria Modesta is a singer with a bionic leg. She likes to give her leg a central role in her performances. As part of the Music Tech Fest 2016 in Berlin, she challenged a team of hackers to create a way for her to control the music and the show lights using the movement of her legs and arms, her voice and her brain. 

We ended up creating a show in less than a week that was performed at the Music Tech Fest.


This short documentary by Fanni Fazakas shows the positive and productive energy during Music Tech Fest Berlin 2016. It features amazing people, labs, installations, performances, music hacks, showcases and experiments with music technology.
MIT Media Lab presents a documentary by Sheila Hayman about #MTFLabs Performance+Body featuring Viktoria Modesta. Between the 23rd and the 27th of May 2016, amazing minds including artists, makers, designers and inventors from MIT Media Lab, Ars Electronica Future Lab, #MusicBricks teams and cutting edge creative developers gathered to explore interactive performance and 'Music as Extension of the Human Body' in a secret chamber of the legendary Funkhaus.

Credits

 

Artist: Viktoria Modesta

Production: Michela Magas & Andrew Dubber

Costume: Joanna Hir & Winde Rienstra

Interactive projections mapping and costume light: Cyril Laurier & Maya Benainous

Leg sensors and interactive music: Tracy Redhead

Light tour control: Jonathan Rutherford

LED skin: Katia Vega & Xin Liu from MIT Media Lab

Neuro brain sensors by Muarts

Organizers: Music Tech Fest May 2016 in Berlin

Presented at: Music Tech Fest on May 28th 2016 in Berlin, Germany