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Abstract
This article is an edited round-table discussion between a collective of Australian artists and academics working with sonic touch and gestural technologies across contemporary performance, public art, and care contexts. This discussion was conducted in August 2021 via Zoom and sought to articulate what a foregrounding of touch and gesture might offer scholarship engaging with the role of sound in performance. This specific collective was assembled because these artists represent a broad cross section of the ways touch and gestural technologies are currently functioning in contemporary sound-led performance practice, sharing as they do a positioning of practices at the nexus of sound, theatre, dance, public art, and music.
Notes
1 Glen is referring here to the sorts of interactive public installations that do not require staffing or personal explanation, but can be set and forgotten, left unattended in public spaces to be discovered and interacted with by audiences.
2 The Ableton Push is a digital musical instrument designed to be used in conjunction with Ableton Live, a digital audio workstation intended for the development and performance of musical compositions.