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Friday, 15. January 2010

By the Numbers

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Nearly five years after I pondered using the >>Conet Numbers Stations recordings for a bit of sound art, >>madebyrobot a.k.a. Jon Sykes has curated a >>rather nice compilation of concept tracks on the theme, released by >>PublicSpaces Lab. Cassiel is featured with Ciocirlia (track 5).

(Cover Art by Rita Monteiro @ PublicSpaces Lab.) PermaLink

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Thursday, 07. January 2010

Vitruvian Fieldwork

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Work continues in >>Field on the Vitruvian-inspired software >>Choreographic Language Agent for >>Wayne McGregor's >>Entity piece, the latest incarnation of which will be performed in November.

Since most of our projects involve sound art, we usually obsess over CPU performance and RAM, but Field/CLA is graphics-heavy with lots of OpenGL action, so the GPU rules. This 2006 MacBook Pro is way underpowered, so we're awaiting delivery of a 2009 model, slightly faster CPU-wise but (hopefully) a revelation in terms of graphics performance. PermaLink

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Monday, 04. January 2010

Ras goffa, British Dance Edition

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ras goffa Bobby Sands is being performed as part of British Dance Edition 2010: details >>here. PermaLink

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Sunday, 25. October 2009

Memorial Lasers

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We have some >>shots on Flickr of the laser rig we designed and programmed for ras goffa Bobby Sands (the Bobby Sands memorial race) by >>Eddie Ladd.

Further performances this week at >>Chapter, Cardiff. PermaLink

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Ableton to Zawinski

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In anticipation of the release of >>Max for Live, I felt a sudden desire to program Ableton Live to be able to read mail. With a bit of help from MXJ and >>Jython, Live can attach to a POP3 server and load email header information into the names of sound clips. Et voila, via >>Vimeo and our fledgeling >>Posterous blog for Max for Live tips and tricks:

>>http://maxforlive.loadbang.net/ableton-live-now-obeys-zawinskis-law-thanks-t. PermaLink

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Audiomulch on Paper

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Our review of >>AudioMulch 2.0 for >>Sound On Sound magazine will appear in the November issue. It is downloadable for subscribers >>here. PermaLink

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Wednesday, 22. July 2009

PEAL

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We (by which I mean myself and >>Lewis Sykes, under the collective moniker of >>Monomatic) have been awarded the major commission for an audio-visual piece in >>Leeds City Museum as part of >>Sound and Music's >>Expo festival.

We've called the piece PEAL. There's a project page >>here and an ongoing development blog >>here. PermaLink

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Sunday, 19. July 2009

Live in Print

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Just over two years after we last reviewed >>Ableton Live in print (for >>Recording magazine), we've had another shot, in >>Sound On Sound for the >>June 2009 issue. And things are about to get >>interesting. PermaLink

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Cyfnod in Preparation

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We're just back from a month in Aberystwyth, working on sound design and sensing systems for >>Eddie Ladd's Cyfnod performance which tours Wales in October. Featured technologies include >>MaxMSP (with our >>Python extensions), >>Arduino, >>AudioMulch, >>BlinkM microcontroller LED clusters and >>laser assemblies. Oh, and a 300Kg, 2m x 4m custom-designed treadmill.

We have some photographs of the technology on Flickr >>here. Details about the actual performance project to follow.

EDIT: The piece is now entitled ras goffa Bobby Sands. PermaLink

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Wednesday, 20. May 2009

Monomatic 3D

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We (as in myself and >>Lewis Sykes) are signed up to do a brief performance-ette as part of the forthcoming >>Future of Sound event at >>The Sage in Gateshead on Saturday. Chief amongst the toys will be a control system for >>3D-AudioScape using a >>monome sixty four.

We've also knocked up a live, OSC-controlled monome visualisation in >>Processing; a customised Python plugin for the >>shado rendering library allows the visualisation to mirror the display state of the physical device. It's a little bit of a hack, but rather sweet.

This is all part of the ongoing >>monomatic project, with a blog >>here. PermaLink

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Future Dates

5th February 2010: Eddie Ladd: ras goffa Bobby Sands, >>British Dance Edition, Birmingham

Projects and Collaborations

» Current Performance Works

» Installation Works » Recorded Music
  • Bullring [2005]
  • Miaou [2000]
  • STKH [2000]
  • Density [2001]
  • PHMMM [2003]
  • The T. Parkers
  • Prince Zeyn
  • Transitions/Laban
  • Diffusion for Stretched Piano
» Performed Music » Media Technology
  • surroundAV [2004-2005]
  • Audio Impressions
  • Sonic Postcards
  • Aylogence Sound Curtain
» Older Performance Works

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Nick Rothwell, nick@cassiel.com

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