In Atmospheres: a symphony of movement qualities I explore how transposing movement qualities to sounds can extend, deepen, and challenge the relationship between dance and music. The use (and abuse) of music in dance triggered my query into this topic, influenced by my experiences in contemporary dance and hip-hop dance styles. Trying to understand the similarities and differences between movement and sound and wanting to conciliate these approaches of dancing to/with/without music, I embarked on a search for sounds supporting dance improvisation, ground of my artistic practice.
In this search, sampling became a tool which enabled me to understand and compose music, collecting recorded sounds (samples) and treating them to achieve sonic qualities relating to movement. Coming from a non-musically trained background, I learned sound production DIY, influenced mainly by my dance perspective. I approach sampling as I do dance, as a collection of movements that can be transformed by focusing on the quality, the how the movement is executed. Sampling is used in hip-hop as a musical production strategy to extend recorded music segments (mostly the beat) to give space for dance. I use sampling similarly, extending and magnifying sounds to give space for dancing in improvisation considering a somatic approach.