start > 2004-11-05 > 1
2004-11-05 #1
The Dark Re-programmed for Hallowe'en 
Last weekend the hardware for the Braunarts installation 
The Dark was "requisitioned" by Kerrang! Radio to host a Big Brother-style elimination contest: five contestants were put into the space after 24 hours of sleep deprivation, and once we'd reconfigured the hardware we got to spend three hours throwing an improvised live 3D sound composition at them. Composer Rob Godman assembled the sounds, while I got to wield them in 3D via wireless joystick and some hastily-assembled Max/MSP control code driving the SurroundAV software.USB gaming devices make ideal Max/MSP control devices, and as mass-produced commodities they're almost cheap enough to come in breakfast cereal; contrast this with the $1000 Motor-Mix, the $2000 Buchla Thunder, and so on. The folks at STEIM are getting heavily into dismembering gaming devices to build their own controllers, and it makes a lot of sense.
no comments |
post comment
Logged in Users: (1)
Recently Changed
Contact: Nick RothwellPowered by SnipSnap 1.0b3-uttoxeter
Future Dates
11th May: rasa, Mayfest, University of Hertfordshire (details)14th May: ras goffa Bobby Sands, Coleg y Drindod Caerfyrddin11th-26th June: Xenakis Pavilion, Spitalfields Festival1st-4th July: Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company: Trespass, Somerset House, London
Projects and Collaborations
» Current Performance Works- Post Me_New ID (London, Prague)
- Projects/Entity (Random Dance)
- Audio Bounce [2005-2008]
- Triptychos [2005-2006]
- Audiotierra [2006]
- Aural Codes [2001-2002]
- Ricochet Dance Artefact
- The Dark
- Slattery's Lamp, Limerick
- Bullring [2005]
- Miaou [2000]
- STKH [2000]
- Density [2001]
- PHMMM [2003]
- The T. Parkers
- Prince Zeyn
- Transitions/Laban
- Diffusion for Stretched Piano
- CyberMusic 2004, Dana Centre
- Interlace
- Different Skies, Arizona
- mindSpiral
- Colourscape
- Cybersonica
- surroundAV [2004-2005]
- Audio Impressions
- Sonic Postcards
- Aylogence Sound Curtain
- Beach Singularity [2005]
- Problems and Mysteries [2005]
- Birds, Bodies [2005]
- Nodding Dog [2001]
- Einem
- Duplex
- Frozen White
- e-Merge, London/Paris
- Ice Dreams Fire
- 1919/21
- CASSIEL 1992
- A Dance in the Queen's Chamber
- Specific Gravity/Heroides XII
- Mad Hatter
- Artistic Upstarts [1993-1994]
- From the Nest
Resources
» Gearhead» Tech Notes » AsidesOther resources
- loadbang.net
- CASSIEL on MySpace
- CASSIEL on SoundCloud
- CASSIEL on Last.fm
- CASSIEL on ReverbNation
- CASSIEL on Twitter
- Nick Rothwell on Flickr
- Nick Rothwell on LinkedIn
- Nick Rothwell on Facebook
- Nick Rothwell on Last.fm