SXSW Interactive 2015

Electric Hustle: Juggling Gesture Controlled Music

Electric Hustle is an experimental theater act telling the story of Las Vegas performers through motion-captured juggling, live electronic music, and photography.

The performance includes a juggler wearing a gyroscopic motion sensor wirelessly connected to the laptop of a DJ. The data stream is used as a motion controller for an ambient music performance.

Scarf swinging (both solo and with audience participation), elaborate three ball juggling patterns, and comic cigar box manipulations are among the props used to create the gestures.

Photographs which tell the stories of Las Vegas performers are projected in the background. The images and live video are mixed and manipulated using the same motion sensor data.

The lineup includes David Kelleher (Emerson College faculty) Loudon Sterns (Berklee College of Music faculty) with his band NonDuo, and Banafsheh Ehtemam (internationally exhibited photographer).

This show was first performed in April 2014 at the Semel Theater in Boston.