On Sunday April 4th I took part in Netrooms [for percussion].
This is an invitation for a special Netrooms performance Netrooms [for percussion]. The performance was commissioned by percussionist Jonathan Shapiro and will take place on Sunday 4th April at the Staller Center music wing, Room 0111 (choral room) at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY
Netrooms [for percussion]
Pedro Rebelo, 2009
Netrooms [for percussion] explores the sound of a local percussionist as it travels through various acoustic environments. Each participant will set up a microphone capturing a space as nearby loudspeakers stream the sound of each percussion instrument. Please choose unique and perhaps extreme acoustic spaces such as bathrooms, concert halls, outdoors, domestic spaces, outdoors etc…
Participants will not be required to produce sound but incidental sound from the environment is welcome…
Tim Devine and I made 4 improvisations for the radiospotting project in Linz, Austria which is taking place Sep 11 – Oct 31 2009. Small radio transmitters tuned to 103Mhz are situated at multiple locations around the city and participants are encouraged to bicycle about the city with portable radios.
Writers and musicians collaborated on each space, with the writer’s text used as inspiration for locational compositions.
We developed and improvised 4 pieces for Pure Data, Roland drum pad, and electric guitar:
Zachary Lieberman and Theo Watson, originators of openFrameworks, an open source, C++ toolkit for artists and creative technologists, are transforming the 1st floor of the Brucknerhaus into an experimental laboratory: OF lab. The idea is to build a space where a dozen or so hackers, tinkerers and researchers will hang out and experiment, make art, create guerrilla exhibitions around the festival and document their progress and discoveries. The “OF lab” will focus on creating new works that come directly out of suggestions from the festival audience members, and over the course of the event, create a feedback loop between suggestions, experimentation, making projects, exhibiting the results and most importantly, exposing the process.
As part of my application to the University of Washington’s DXARTS PhD program, I have written a proposal for the next phase of the robotcowboy project:
The paper proposes the Wearable Audio/Visual Unit project which
aims to provide a uniform embedded wearable computer platform for
live audio/visual performance. Targeted at the “do-it-yourself” per-
former with limited technical expertise and resources, this device will
be designed using commercially available hardware, utilize open source
software, and be made available as plans, software downloads, and
collaboration through an online community. It is hoped that such an
alternative to both the laptop computer and stacks of audio gear will
change the nature of future live performance.
Performance for Christmas calendar project in Gothenburg Sweden on Dec 9 07. I accompanied Oscar Ramos as he played a window with a speaker and contact mic using feedback through an amplification system. The performance lasted about 15 minutes and was viewed from the street below.
robotcowboy was invited for a two week artistic residency at STEIM in Amsterdam. osc^~ and I arrived on Oct 1st and began work creating new things. We returned to Gothenburg on the 15th.
I experimented with different uses of the Nintendo Wiimote with my guitar, developed new Pure Data abstractions for creating song structures, and tried some music textures which can be heard at musicdump.danomatika.com.
Oscar built some custom printed circuit boards for use with a STEIM cracklebox and worms which “play” on its surface. He also constructed a “holy feedback” circuit where two images, one of Jesus and the other of the Devil, which amplify each other to the point of sonorous noise.
2006-12-01
fall 2006 installations performance visual |
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Luminescent, skeletal animals glow to sound. A rare species discovered deep in the Pacific, deep within a petri dish, or perhaps deepdeepdeep in outer space.
A project for the “Future” exhibition at the IT-ceum, The Swedish Computer Museum, in Linköping, Sweden.
The IT-ceum, The Swedish Computer Museum, is holding an exhibition entitled “Future” featuring masters students from the Chalmers Art and Technology program in Linköping, Sweden December 9th 2006 to March 2007.
The Opening was on Dec 9th from 14 to 16. Show flier!
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