House Music Project

SLIPPAGE Presents

The House Music Project: an Interactive Media Environment

Conceived and performed by Thomas F. DeFrantz at the Kresge Little Theater, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The House Music Project, an interactive performance installation, was conceived by faculty of MIT and the University of Texas, Dallas. The collaboration engages new media to explore the memory of technological shifts that pushed black music into the electronic age. This project seeks to historicize House Music through its mediated archive. The Project allows users to experience the sensation of djing as they dance; their gestures re-member House Music.

DeFrantz intends for performances of the House Music Project to demonstrate the possibilities of the environment, where black music meets itself through its dances and projects motion into light and sound.