LIVE EXPERIENCES

Since 2014 Chagall has been creating live shows with cutting edge technology like motion capture, audio reactive visuals, lights & A.I. to create visually spectacular, real-time live music experiences with a captivating physicality and human intimacy.

Unlocked

Full body motion capture interacting with light installation B.A.B.Y.

ADVAITA

Real-time rendered avatars as backup dancers

WHETHER A WALL

A choir of 12 drones for the Dutch royal family

CALIBRATION

Performing all electronic sounds and visual projections with the MiMU Gloves

MUSIC

UNLOCKED album (2023)

DUNES single (2023)

LILAC MORNING single (2023)

ABOUT

musician & innovator
creating immersive music experiences that move & connect

Chagall puts a beating heart in music & technology. She sings, composes, dances, programs, experiments and paves her way through everything that is human. Captivating, playful and intimate; every performance by Chagall is a spectacular audio-visual experience that inspires and connects.Chagall has no educational background in either music or technology, but is a living example that technology, computer programming and electronics can be mastered if you know what you want to get from it.Her journey in tech began in London in 2014 when she joined the music technology startup MiMU. Her involvement in Imogen Heap's musical gloves company kickstarted Chagall's fascination for motion controllers in electronic music performance and stimulated her to learn more about computer programming.
She was the company's UI/UX designer until 2020 and worked on the development of their innovative applications Glover, Gliss and The Jellyfish.By 2017 she produced her first live show in which she controlled all digital elements in the music and visual projections with her MiMU Gloves. This work, 'Calibration', sent her across the globe to give performances and/or tell her story of using sensor-tech in music at events like TEDx, South by Southwest, Eurosonic Noorderslag, MUTEK Montreal, Reeperbahn Festival, Sonar +D, Dutch Design Week, Amsterdam Dance Event, Ableton Loop, Boiler Room, Green Man, Latitude and many more.In 2019 she created ‘Advaita’ for which she turned the Xsens motion capture suit into a full body musical instrument. By developing this technical ability she really made live music, technology, visual and movement work together in harmony as all artistic elements are controlled by one thing: the performer’s body. The result is a synergy of movement, music and visual effects performance that is understood intuitively and emotionally.In 2021 her first light-art-installation B.A.B.Y. was born. In the live show 'Unlocked', Chagall controls the physical structure around her with her movement, turning the machine B.A.B.Y. into a soft, living creature.In 2023 she started LoveLace - a foundation to support female identifying artists to learn and apply technology in their work.

UNLOCKED

Live music in a synergetic light-art installation

‘Unlocked’ is a live electronic pop music performance of Chagall and her reactive light-art installation called B.A.B.Y. (Bionic Assistant for Becoming Yourself).As Chagall controls all elements in the show in realtime through sensors in her costume, audiences witness a spectacular yet organic and intimate interplay of the human body, voice, light and music.

Technical

While singing Chagall controls all musical and visual elements in this performance with the movements of her hands and body. For this she uses sensor-enabled gloves (MiMU), a full-body motion capture suit (Xsens) and specialised software that allow her to create the music and lighting design in realtime (not pre-recorded). Chagall’s natural movements are leading the technology, resulting in softness and human liveliness in a tech-heavy performance.The full length show is about 1hr.
It is also possible to discuss a shorter set time and combine this with a technical demo/talk. Feel free to reach out for more information.

CONCEPT

At the heart of ‘Unlocked’ are the songs of her recently released album with the same title. The ten songs on this concept album serenade Chagall’s journey of getting to know herself fully and learning to accept even the parts of herself that are more difficult to embrace. This music, performed live, brings together 80s pop synths, 90s alt-R&B melodies and swelling basslines in a digital yet poetic dream world.The confrontations and unification with the self are visualised by the exchange between Chagall and B.A.B.Y. who can mirror her every move and shows with this shows her who she really is. At times the installation is a comfortable cocoon, a safe space, fully reactive to Chagall. At other moments B.A.B.Y. will take the lead and confronts Chagall with the unexpected, hidden parts of her being.

B.A.B.Y.

B.A.B.Y. is a reactive light art installation consisting of twelve 3.2m tall LED arches and four 2.90m moving head arches with eight moving head stage lights at the top and bottom. All the lights are controlled in real-time and programmed by Chagall.B.A.B.Y. is setup in such a way that the performance space within the arches is a semicircle with a diameter of about 5m.
Minimum Stage measurements: 5m x 7m x 3.5m. Venue requirements: dark venue or - if outdoors - at night.Chagall and her crew will bring everything that is needed to set up the installation (this takes about 1.5hrs).
Detailed technical rider can be sent upon request.

CREDITS

Concept & Music // Chagall
Technical concept & programming // Chagall
Director // Kenza Koutchoukali
Choreography // Jori Meijer
Audio & light tech // Sven de Hoog
Light operator // Stefan Prokop
Unity programming // Ruud op den Kelder
Visual consultancy // Niels de Waard
Construction // Niels de Waard & Pieter Meijer
Lyrics // Robert Isaf
Music co-production // Raven Bush
Costume // Linda Bogers
Executive Producer // Tinka van der Heide
Technical support // WERC & y=f(x)
Producer // Paradiso Melkweg Productiehuis
Co-producer // Explore the North FestivalSupported by Stichting Amarte Fonds, Stichting Dioraphte en
Het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en wetenschappen

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ADVAITA

xr live music experience with avatars as backup dancers

For Advaita, Chagall 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, visuals, and movement work together in harmony as all artistic elements are controlled by one thing: the performer’s body.In Advaita audio and video are manifested in real-time, either directly from the movement of the body or driven by commands generated from gesture recognition. The motion capture suits enable her to control real-time avatars that dance with her on the screen. In this show there are no interfaces blocking the connection between performer and audience. It is the performer’s (non-) choreographed movement that connect her to both the technology and the audience. The result is a synergy of movement, music, and visual effects performance that is understood intuitively and emotionally.

CREDITS

Creative direction // Eduardo Fitch & Leyla Rees
Movement direction // Leyla Rees
Unity development // Ruud op den Kelder,
Sander Sneek @ Studio05 & Aron Fels
3D artist // Brian Miller
Open Frameworks development & Xsens- Glover integration // Adam Stark
Audio engineer and all round tech hero // Sven de Hoog
Lighting design // Stefan Prokop
Drums // Alvin Ryan
Keyboard/backing vocals // Veera Lummi
Audio premix // Matt Allaby
Costume design // Linda Bogers
Project manager // Lia LoewenthalThe production of Advaita was supported by
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie: Upstream MusicxDesign, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, Effenaar Lab,, Paradiso Melkweg Productiehuis, Xsens, VRee& MiMU

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