The Fear of Losing It: Real Dancing to Unreal Music

In a number of regions, real dancing is the most common appearance during festivals and ceremonial opportunities. This paper will try to consider the possible and fictive ways in which an AI could take over the production of musical instruments and how AI has an impact on dancing as an expressive activity coordinated according to instrumentally patterned music. Examples are collected in diverse, relatively isolated territories throughout the world. This can be a specific analytical step in order to make experiences in media technologies better understandable. Limited local resources may play a specific role in the discussion. A strict differentiation between mood dancing and ceremonial requirements from staged performances is obviously more important than the previous division into music for one’s own mental and bodily needs of expression and those masscommercial ideas that were often the centre of attention to make some debatable final suggestions. The investigation will focus on the interplay between real and unreal things and feelings explored from different perspectives through the interpretation of data collected during field trips and from accessible and preparatory literature. What makes musical instruments real, and what adds doubts to this reality? Which functions have added artificial components? Which result may be felt in the dances? How are observations used in this regard? This paper might be a step further in the direction of analysing the connection between instrumentally supported dancing in need of musical communication and manifold technologies of moving.