Skitter Flutter runs through June 24 at Seed Space, 427 Chestnut St, Nashville TN
interactive acoustic sound sculpture created with motors, corrugated tubes sensors and an Arduino.
Patrick Becker and Steve Ghertner helped me bring this to fruition. We are all members of the Middle Tennessee Robotic Arts Society.
more info is here
Engineering Day at The Adventure Science Center in Nashville was pretty great. Kids love the kinect skeletons and facial interaction and I met two young women who had impressive robotics projects to show. Patrick Becker from Middle Tennessee Robotics built a robot from scratch in 3 hours and many other great builds were on hand including 3 3D printers from Hacker Consortium folks. Then to Blair tonight for an amazing recital with Eric Owens and Warren Jones. Incredibly expressive performance of powerful chamber music. The use of vocal color was astounding and potent. A full day of inspiration from Nashville, TN.
The latest interaction out of my studio- xbox kinect reading gestures through a great free program called Synapse, run into Max & Jitter to control the video. It’s the beginning of a larger interactive installation project.
Filmmaker Ian Cheney came to New York in 2009 realizing how difficult it was to have a place to grow food. So he planted his mini farm in his old Dodge and the Truck Farm was born! (via The Pop-Up City)
a raised bed garden in the back of a pickup.
I just got back from a month in Florida at ACA with Master Artist Roscoe MItchell. Mr. Mitchell has some illuminating things to say about spontaneous composition and orchestration through improvisation. We also performed new compositions from all of the Associate Artists and met some great painters and writers as well. More ltr…..
This is the second edited video from the live taping. This one uses the hacked xbox kinect to draw animations in real-time through code written in Processing. The music is a structured improvisation using Ableton live for sampling and looping with the FCB1010 foot pedal as controller. Hope you enjoy!
This is a documentation of a new composition utilizing multimedia improvisation.
The microphone controls several video parameters in real-time. Acoustic volume controls fade in/out and edging effect, pitch controls the video head/current frame and the multiplier effect- all effects turned on and off with the midi FCB1010 pedal. All programming done through Max/Jitter with Ableton Live (Max4Live).
This is an original structured improvisation with several composed musical motives performed on Oboe and antique Clarinet with live sampling set up through Ableton. The featured video was taken outside my kitchen window when we first moved to Nashville. The bees love the Pussy Willow and swarm it every spring..
Live Taping April 18 2011 at gallery F @ Scarritt Bennett, Nashville TN
I will be attempting to capture my xbox kinect oboe/processing/animation composition as well as a microphone controlled video composition (using Max/Jitter/Ableton Live) on April 18th at gallery F, Nashville. It is a free event.
730pm
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video of an oboe improvisation last night based on a very loud Robin singing right outside my window at 5am! It was a fun show at Betty’s and I will be doing a taping of the interactive video/code pieces at Gallery f on the 18th. You guy are welcome to come- it will be a small audience. Email me if you need info.
Oboe and video transmuted via Max for Live program. Microphone input controls and effects the video projection in real time. It is a very spring themed video just FYI.Also a Kinect instrument which the audience will be invited to play and a duet with the excellent Craig Schenker. Oboe, Chinese Oboe, Ancient miniature Clarinet and Soprano Sax will be employed by yours truly.
