ABSTRACT
Art and science are two different but strongly coupled aspects of human creativity, driving innovation both as art influences science and technology and as science and technology in turn inspire art. The chapter presents research results from European projects on innovative scientific and technological research related to dance and music. It aims at investigating how sound and music can express, represent, and analyse the affective and relational qualities of body movement. To transfer vision into sound, however, a model is needed to understand what we see when we observe the qualities of a movement and what we perceive in a movement when we feel its qualitative expression. To induce specific movement qualities, the dancer is instructed with textual images and metaphors while doing the assigned basic movement. This approach is often exploited by choreographers to instruct dancers.
