Artist
Daniel Konhauser
Composer, video maker, and sound artist Daniel Konhauser has for several decades created works ranging from music for dance to multi-media theatre to interactive video and sound installations. In his work, he provides interactive opportunities for audiences to become participants in the co-creation of the piece, adding tension through the intersection of real-time interactions with time-transformed, prerecorded events. His aim is to create work with an emotional effect and to induce a personal, internal narrative in the audience. Endlessly fascinated by obsolete analog technologies and vintage forms, he reinvents and reinvestigates them with digital techniques. Konhauser's work has been presented at Gray Area, CounterPULSE, and The Lab in San Francisco, Krowswork and the MilkBar in Oakland, and Joyce SoHo in New York City. His artistic collaborators have included choreographer Maxine Moerman, musician Dina Emerson, visual artist Cheri Ibes, and the London-based band Paper Dollhouse.
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Choir Octet by Daniel Konhauser is an interactive sensor-driven installation that transforms the presence of viewers into a collaborative musical experience. Using motion sensors and camera feeds, the work captures the audience's image and movement, translating their physical presence into a generative lullaby that plays over their projected likeness. The piece reimagines the relationship between singer and listener, making the audience both the subject and co-creator of the lullaby. It speaks to the communal nature of song and the way lullabies, at their core, are acts of mutual presence and care.