Turbulence is pleased to announce two new commissions: "WWW-Enabled Noise Toy" by Loud Objects and "Moments of Inertia" by R. Luke DuBois, with Todd Reynolds.
"WWW-Enabled Noise Toy" by Loud Objects http://turbulence.org/works/noisetoy Loud Objects, NYC-based circuit sorcerers, present a wacky way to learn hardware audio programming. The "WWW-Enabled Noise Toy" invites anyone with a web browser to write their own audio code, program it remotely onto a Noise Toy, and play it live via webcam. In the spirit of "try it yourself" software demos, the website provides a simple environment for experimenting with low-level microchip-generated audio. Load code from Loud Objects' own library of performance algorithms, hone your own noise techniques, and add your work to the online archive to share it with other microchip coders and create an open source noise community. BIOGRAPHY Graduates of Columbia University, Kunal Gupta, Tristan Perich and Katie Shima have been performing as Loud Objects since 2005. Their performances, focused on sound from programmed microchips, have ranged from live circuit constructions on overhead projectors and slide projectors, to soldering atop a 24-light bulb fluorescent podium, and later with modified fluorescent light guitars. Loud Objects has performed in the USA and internationally at numerous festivals on four continents, including Sonar (Spain), Transitio_MX (Mexico), Piksel (Norway), Evolution (UK), Bent Festival and Blip Festival (NYC), Electric Eclectics (Canada), Screen Music 2 (Italy), Art and Music with the Overhead Projector (Germany), Festival of Endless Gratitude (Denmark), NIME (Brooklyn). Their varied performances range from solo acts to shifting duets with vocalists, drummers, susophonists, tuba quintets, laptop musicians, singers, painting machines, manatees, and recently as movie soundtracks. "Moments of Inertia" by R. Luke DuBois, with Todd Reynolds http://turbulence.org/works/inertia "Moments of Inertia" is an evening-length performance based on a teleological study of gesture in musical performance and how it relates to gesture in intimate social interaction. The work is written for solo violin with real-time computer accompaniment and video. "Moments" consists of twelve violin études -- ranging from 3-5 minutes in length -- each of which uses a different violin performance gesture as a control input for manipulating a short piece of high-speed film (300 frames-per-second) -- of a person performing a social gesture. Taking its cue from principles in physics that determine an object's resistance to change, the violinist's gestures time-remap and scrub the video clip to explore the intricacies of the performed action. BIOGRAPHY R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season. Exhibitions of his work include: the Insitut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain; 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; San Jose Museum of Art; National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; 2007 Sundance Film Festival; and the Sydney Film Festival. An active visual and musical collaborator, DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data. "Moments of Inertia" is a commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence.org website. It was commissioned through Meet the Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by the generous support of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Ford Foundation, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. Jo-Anne Green Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. 917.548.7780 or 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Networked: http://networkedbook.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
