Supertask's New Event Series Will Transform the Dancefloor Into a Psychological Experiment

Supertask is popping his crowds into members for a novel psychological experiment designed to check group dynamics at reside reveals.

The upcoming live performance expertise in Denver will look at behavioral patterns like conformity, collective consideration and interplay, George Sideris, Supertask’s supervisor, tells EDM.com. The information collected will in the end contribute to printed educational analysis, providing a deeper understanding of how we join and behave at concert events.

As the DJ performs reside, interactive segments and smartphone interplay will accumulate high-fidelity crowd information. A narrator on an LED wall will information crowd members via these moments of participation, turning them into each topics and co-creators of the formidable experiment.

Infrared cameras, movement sensors and a smartphone interface will work in unison to seize behavioral information in real-time, offering essential insights for the evaluation of social dynamics in a reside music setting. Light, sound and motion will all function variables within the information assortment.

“Not only will this effort open the doors for a new type of entertainment experience, blurring the lines between attendee and performer, but it will also directly contribute to developing the tools necessary to quantify the unique phenomena that emerge from human crowds,” Sideris explains.

The initiative’s testing floor is a three-night occasion collection at Cervantes’ Other Side, appropriately titled “Calibration,” which is able to lay the inspiration for a bigger behavioral examine from Supertask’s staff. They’re planning on fine-tuning the expertise for an expanded tour in quite a few main cities.

“The whole idea is blending science and art, turning live events into real-time laboratories to study crowd behavior,” Supertask tells EDM.com. “This event specifically is about calibrating our technology and refining the system. Once we’ve dialed this in, we’ll be able to transform an entire tour into a large-scale psychological study, gathering unprecedented insights into collective human behavior.”

Supertask’s “Calibration” collection in Denver is scheduled for July thirty first to August 2nd. Tickets are at the moment bought out.

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