Monomatic 3D

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.

Testing Testing

We are about to kick off some creative collaboration (involving sensors, software and music) with Welsh choreographer Eddie Ladd for a performance tour later in the year. Top of the to-do list: a remix of Gododdin by Test Dept. and Brith Gof.

Tracking down the twenty-year-old multitrack tapes is proving to be a bit of a challenge - a search is currently being conducted in the National Library of Wales - and it's not clear what condition they will be in if we finally find them, so Plan B is to work with the stereo recording. There are more than enough toys in Ableton Suite 8 to be able to make something of a dent in the original.

Future of Stuff

We're working with VJ Mondo and body>data>space on a short show-and-tell of a system to allow a monome to sequence a CG-8 video synthesiser for the next Future of Sound/Future of Light event at Goldsmiths in London. Details here.

Trooping and Herding

New tour dates for Turner Dance's Troop and a brand new piece entitled Herd (for which we are doing live video and audio processing).

Dates:

• February 6: CANCELLED (The Hat Factory, Luton (Herd and Troop))
• February 12: Colchester Arts Centre (Herd)
• February 14: The Cut, Halesworth (Herd)
• March 16, 6.30pm: The Facility at London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road N7 8DB. Tickets: L.Hurn@londonmet.ac.uk (Herd)
• March 18, 7pm: The Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University as part of Cambridge Science Festival 2009. Free: tickets 01223 766766 (Herd)

Details here.

Cubing the Monome

We're doing a bit of development work for the Percussa AudioCubes, so it seemed natural to throw together a combo monome and AudioCube performance system to see how well it worked.

Videos:

• Vimeo (HD)
• YouTube

The monome is being driven by the straker sequencing network which is built using shado. The sound manipulation comes courtesy of shard, an algorithmic sample slicing plugin that we've used on stage a few times, most recently for a Future of Sound gig at (re)Actor3 in Liverpool.

Dresden Interview

Whilst at Hellerau for the Post Me / CYNETart forum, we were interviewed by Marlon Barrios Solano for the dance-tech site, on the topic of software and systems for enhancing the creative process of choreography. (Please forgive the rather scruffy appearance.)

Max at STEIM

We're teaching a Max workshop at STEIM in Amsterdam, December 1st-3rd. Details here.

To Hellerau and Back

We're just back from an interesting and rewarding time at the Festspielhaus Hellerau, participating in the Post Me_New ID forum and taking in some of the gallery works from CYNETart festival. The next stage of Post Me will be preparation for the performance event in February.

Meanwhile, if you're a Second Life user, sign the petition to stop the visual suspension of account corpses - or, at least, buy the T-shirt.

More Fieldwork

Work progresses on the Wayne McGregor/Random Dance software development project, linked to the performance work Entity and written using the Field framework. Marc Downie has blogged a description of the Language Agent.

We will be presenting some work-in-progress at the Muziektheater Amsterdam in connection with performances of Entity (November 5), and at Beyond Text (Aberdeen, November 7-9).

Bodies in Paris

Exhibition launch tomorrow, with performance event (for which we'll be improvising some live sound):

VIRTUAL PHYSICAL BODIES / CORPS VIRTUELS PHYSIQUES
10 octobre 08 > 11 janvier 09
VERNISSAGE > JEUDI 9 OCTOBRE • 18H30
Exposition multimédia - ENTREE LIBRE

Body>Data>Space est un collectif anglo-saxon dont le travail à la fois de création et de prospection reste attentif aux formes artistiques émergeantes capables de favoriser les passerelles entre le corps, les technologies et l’espace urbain. Alimentant une réflexion autour d’un corps devenu désormais «ouvert» et pluriel, ce nouveau parcours est l’occasion de voir comment soumis à toutes ces technologies nouvelles, ce corps «nouvelle génération» évolue dans la réalité et le quotidien.