sound experiences by other visionaries
In Flock, music notation, electronic sound, and video animation are all generated in real time based on the locations of musicians, dancers, and audience members as they move and interact with each other. Computer vision software analyzes video from an overhead camera to determine the location of each participant, and this data is used to create music notation for four jazz saxophonists, to render a three-dimensional video animation, and to generate an electronic soundtrack. By inviting the audience to help create the unique music and visuals for each performance, Flock seeks to reconcile concert performance with the dynamics of collaborative creation, multi-player games, and social networks to create an engaging live event.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Each person triggers a single note per measure based on their x (time) and y (pitch) location
Jason Freeman
June 12th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
RainDance
RainDance is an interactive sound installation by electronic media artist Paul DeMarinis. The installation uses water to create non-water sounds. Jets of water modulated by audio signals carry sound vibrations that are inaudible to the human ear. The sounds cannot be heard until the water jet is intercepted by a large umbrella. The sound is then decoded and resonated from the surface of the umbrella. The umbrella thus becomes a new and different kind of loudspeaker.
Diverse electronic and acoustic material is modulated onto the streams so that people strolling along under the water jets can listen to, mix, modify, and sequence a variety of sonic material, ranging from musical standards to rhythmic and electronic music.
Jets of water modulated by audio signals carry sound vibrations that are inaudible to the human ear. The sounds cannot be heard until the water jet is intercepted by a large umbrella. The sound is then decoded and resonated from the surface of the umbrella. The umbrella thus becomes a new and different kind of loudspeaker.
Diverse electronic and acoustic material is modulated onto the streams so that people strolling along under the water jets can listen to, mix, modify, and sequence a variety of sonic material, ranging from musical standards to rhythmic and electronic music.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Paul DeMarinis the creator of Raindance has been working as an electronic media artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions.
Much of his work involves speech processed and synthesized by computers, available on the Lovely Music Ltd. compact disc “Music as a Second Language”, and the Apollohuis CD “A Listener’s Companion” Major installation works include “The Edison Effect” that uses optics and computers to make new sounds by scanning ancient phonograph records with lasers, “Gray Matter” that uses the interaction of body and electricity to make music, and “The Messenger” that examines the myths of electricity in communication. Public artworks include large scale interactive installations at Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Expo 1998 in Lisbon and an interactive audio environment at the Ft. Lauderdale International Airport in 2003.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Advanced Beauty: 18 Sound Sculptures
Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, animators and architects.
Using many bespoke animation techniques including generative, physics simulation and audio-analysis software, the work is a collection of ‘video sound sculptures’.
Curated by Sheffield-based design studio Universal Everything and musician Freeform Advanced Beauty is an international collaboration, taking in a family of artists from Russia, New York, Japan, Buenos Aires, Glasgow to San Francisco.
This collection of films is the first in a series of exhibitions, with upcoming events at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and galleries in New York, Paris and Tokyo.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Dynamic music video for Sovacusa
Track: Shibuya (3:06:68)
Album: Centrepoint (ecd22:05)
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