Lucky Dragons

Lucky Dragons are doing EXACTLY what I wanted to do. I figured SOMEONE had to be doing it, and I suppose Lucky Dragons isn't the only outfit doing group interactive sound/music work either. The thing with finding Lucky Dragon is that it is very exactly what I imagined my work to be. So, now, I'm a little adrift again... I suppose I should continue down the path, knowing that I'm sure my work will grow and actualize in a different path than theirs, resulting in a different and uniquely-mine work.

Their work has it all for me:
Interactive
Audience particiaption/acualization
oragnic digital music
oganic digital video
DIY electronics
TENTACLES
artist as facilitator
Science!

They did it, and they did it well, and I'm glad to see their growth! I feel like I should buy them a pizza!

Artist Biography
Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Anderson are Lucky Dragons, a multi-disciplinary group that incorporate video, interactive media, sculpture and liberal amounts of audience participation into their live performances. To get a rich sense of what they are up to, you should definitely check out their website. You can also catch them at this year's Whitney Biennial, where they will be performing on March 11th. Make a Baby (pictured), is a project they have been developing since 2005, which uses a homemade set-up of software patches, hardware hacks and psychedelic tentacles to create beautiful, volatile music. When an audience member touches the tentacles, the sound is modulated by the individual's bioelectricity, which can then be modulated further by the touch of others. The entire piece grows and changes as different configurations of touch are explored by the audience. To say the least, this is one of those things that you need to see to believe.

"Musical experience in its most general sense seems clearly to have very much in common with the archaic ways of thinking or coping with the world. Music is a branch of body language, a certain kind of bodily process that gives meanings to things in which unconscious bodily experiences of meaning and their symbolic derivates gain their own abstract forms."
Dunja Degmečić, Ivan Požgain and Pavo Filaković, "Music as Therapy",
International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Dec., 2005), pp. 287-300, Published by: Croatian Musicological Society

"Music comes from the heart of the human being. When emotions are born, they are expressed by sounds, and when sounds are born, they give birth to music."
Chinese proverb

"Music represents a distinctive yet global means of human discourse and communication."
Bob L. Johnson, Jr., "A Sound Education for All: Multicultural Issues in Music Education", Educational Policy 2004 18: 116, Sage Publications

Link to an interview with the artist or a review

Link to gallery representing artist (when they were at the Whitney 2008 Biennial)

Link to artist website