Chagall
Chagall is a Dutch electronic music producer, songwriter, singer, performer & technology innovator. She creates audio-visual live music performances that reimagine the world of live electronica. With new motion-based controller technologies, she uses the movement of her body to control all electronic sounds and visuals in real-time.
Her shows are tech-heavy but it’s the humanity and fluidity of Chagall’s gestures and musical impact of the songs that make this show a unique fusion of music and tech, proving that technology does not equal impersonal, and mechanical but is able to stimulate audiences emotionally, sonically and visually.
In 2014 Amsterdam-based singer & electronic music producer Chagall joined the London music tech startup MiMU to develop the musical MiMU Gloves which kicked off her fascination for the humanisation of electronic music performance. Since 2015 she creates audio-visual live shows at the crossroads of music, technology, visual art and choreography, supported by sensor technology and virtual simulations that she develops with her team. Chagall produces all the tracks and does a lot of the software development and programming herself.
In 2017 she produced her first full length live set with the MiMU Gloves that sent her all across the globe to give performances and tell her story of using sensor-tech in music to colleagues & students at events like TEDx events, Ableton Loop, MUTEK Montreal, Reeperbahn Festival, Sonar +D, Dutch Design Week, Nesta Futurefest, Boiler Room and many more.
In 2019 she created Advaita for which she turned the Xsens motion capture suit into a full body musical instrument. ADVAITA is the coming together of the human and the digital. The real and the virtual. In Advaita live music, technology, visual and movement work together in harmony as all artistic elements are controlled by one thing: the performer’s body. The motion capture suits enables her to control real time avatars that dance with her on the screen. The result is a synergy of movement, music and visual effects performance that is understood intuitively and emotionally.
Chagall is currently working on a LED & live lighting installation that she will also react to her music and movement to perform the songs she has written during the lockdown. This performance is called ‘Unlocked’ and will premier at Explore the North festival July 2021.