KWEChE - live media interaction 

With the help of Arts Council of England Developing Your Creative Practice and under the mentorship of Fergus Dingle on filming and Opiyo Okach on digital media manipulation, Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno has been investigating how to use digital tools in his live performance to provide a fully interactive experience using live projection of interacting media. In this live display, captured live sound and movement interacts with one another and with images and prerecorded videos. Rapasa can use these tools to immerse and include his audience in the story told in his native language Dholuo. It makes spectacular shows which he did a pilot at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music Hall 1 on the 19 June 2021 and which he further developed during his residency with Britten Pears Arts in February 2022. 

Not only Rapasa is planning to use these tools when presenting the work KWEChE for which he developed this but he also envisage to use when creating and developing future works.

Videos showcased on this page offers some example of the applications of these skills. Some were produced during the pilot phase by Opiyo Okach, others during his residency at Britten Pears Arts and some showing how Rapasa is continuing to developing this idea. There are also a couple of official music videos produced by him.

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