Applying “The Viewpoints” to Multimedia Performance

Darren Moore is a Lecturer in Music at LASALLE College of the Art, Singapore. He is a drummer and electronic musician working in the fields of jazz, experimental music and multimedia throughout South East Asia, Australia, Japan and Europe. His Doctorate of Musical Arts was completed at Griffith University in 2013 and was concerned with adapting Carnatic Indian rhythms to the drum set. Darren is the musical director for the cellF project which is a multidisciplinary bio-art work bringing together artists, scientists, musicians and electrical engineers to produce a neural-driven analogue synthesiser for real-time performance and collaboration.

Adam Marple is the Co-Artistic Director of the internationally recognised Theatre of Others and was Founding Artistic Director of the NYC-based Necessary Theatre Company. Adam has directed Regionally and Off-Broadway in the Americas, in Europe, and across South East Asia. He has taught internationally at the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, as well as at Orvieto Sperimentazione Teatro- Italy, La MaMa Umbria-Italy, Kyoto University of Art and Design-Japan, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Chulalongkorn University- Bangkok, National School of Drama-India as well as a Lecturer in the School of Dance and Theatre at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore where he taught into the Acting, Dance, Musical Theatre, and Music programs. He has been practising and teaching The Viewpoints for over twenty years having worked with its founders Mary Overlie, Anne Bogart, and Tina Landau. His research centres on the expansion and testing of The Viewpoints as an Interdisciplinary and Transcultural pedagogy. He is currently Senior Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator of Theatre at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) in Mexico.

Andreas Schlegel currently lives and works in Singapore. He coordinates the Media Lab at LASALLE College of the Arts where he also teaches across disciplines. He is interested in creating artefacts, tools and interfaces where technology meets art and everyday life situations. His work is concerned with emerging and open source technologies to create audio, visual and physical output using computational and generative processes. Currently, his research focus is on generative and distributed systems within an artistic context.

Brian O’Reilly works within the fields of electro-acoustic composition, sound installations, moving images and noise music. Also, he is a contrabassist focusing on uncovering the inaudible textures and hidden acoustic microsounds of his instrument through the integration of electronic treatments and extended playing techniques. In addition to his solo performances and works for moving images, O’Reilly plays modular analogue synthesiser as a part of the duo Black Zenith and contrabass & electronics with Game of Patience. Currently, he is a lecturer at LASALLE’s College of the Arts School of Contemporary Music, focusing on electronic music composition, creative music-making techniques through the use of improvisation and visual music.