Another related project!
by victor on Jul.23, 2010, under inspiration, research
Leave a Comment :nomadic sound system more...Live set!
by victor on Jul.22, 2010, under event, report
Well, we, Arne and me, have been all around the country for weeks. This time we presented PATTERNS for the Young Art Festival. It was a complete success; we made around 8 shows in two days, fully booked!
Here I present a recording of the live set. The spoken word was made at the location and it was transmitted trough radio signal to the performing audience, only possible to hear it with headphones. The sound art, ambient and electronic music part was performed live and also transmitted by radio signal to all the backpacks.
Transmission arts
by victor on Jul.11, 2010, under inspiration, progress, research
Doing some research I found this amazing Art genre: TRANSMISSION ARTS.
The pioneers, at least as a serious institution are the New York based guys from Free 103.9
In this short PDF from the MIT you can read in general terms what is Transmission Art. I’m pasting a paragraph of it to give an essential idea in a few lines:
In simplest terms “Transmission Arts” is defined as a multiplicity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum (radio). Transmission works often manifest themselves in participatory live art or time-based art, and include, but are not limited to, sound, video, light, installation, and performance. Like the work encompassed by the genre, its lineage is anything but linear.
With this basis I started to sort the possibilities so far and find examples. I came up with 8 different types:
- One transmitter to a group of receivers
- Pick up devices
- Tuning already existing transmissions by the influence of external factors
- Receivers or sensors attached to the body
- Tuning with special antennas
- Multiple transmitters on fixed locations
- Wireless networks
- Fragmented pieces by space. The distance separates the piece into parts, the transmission embeds it together.
CLICK ON EACH IMAGE TO SEE A DESCRIPTION ABOUT IT.
Video: Test 002 @ Melkfabriek
by arne on Jul.04, 2010, under progress, report
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RENDERING
by victor on Jun.21, 2010, under uncategorized
So, made this render to check out the pieces and make some numbers.
Backpacks at beach party Timboektoe
by arne on Jun.11, 2010, under report
Victor gave at DJ set over 8 backpacks at a beach party, as part of an art event at Timboektoe (http://www.timboektoe.org/).
Melkfabriek 001: first public try-out
by arne on May.30, 2010, under development, research
During the ‘Open Atelierdagen’ we did the first testing with the backpacks receiving the sound composition in a big space.
Two enthusiast visitors volunteered to walk around with the backpacks. This gave some interesting insights regarding the perception of other people in the space, the participants ‘feeling part’ of an event and acoustic characteristics of different locations in the space.
backpacks 003
by arne on May.22, 2010, under development
The speaker tubes are now housed in a solid cased and are control though an interface box.
Backpacks 002
by arne on May.22, 2010, under development
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Illustrations
by arne on May.22, 2010, under progress
Made some illustrations for visualization of the concept.
Character development
by arne on May.22, 2010, under progress
We made a first draft for the different characters in the audio tour.
Jorrit is going to build the writing from this starting point.
2010-05-12-thoughts_on_audiotour
Meeting 3 May 2010: Evert & Jorrit
by arne on May.11, 2010, under progress, report
+ Meeting
- Evert Hoogendoorn (supervisor)
- Jorrit van der Post (alumni writer for performances)
- Victor, Arne
Prototype: backpacks radio + speaker
by arne on May.11, 2010, under development, experiment
First prototypes of broadcasting system sound composition
PC > radio transmitter > radio receiver > backpack speaker
+ setup prototype
+ range test
+ picture
Concept: piece about patterns
by arne on May.11, 2010, under progress
We have defined a concept for the project. A piece about patterns.
+ in short
- art game / audiotour / performance
- piece about patterns in sound (rhythms) and patterns in human behavior (reactions)
- backpacks with radio receiver connected to speaker and headphones for audiotour
- audiotour with characters talking about their perspective on patterns & instructions for person listening
- installations in the space with a potential to make sound, to be activated by persons carrying backpacks
- sound piece is transmitted by radio
- backpacks receive sound piece and composition is completed with rhythm sounds from installations
+ description in dutch
Vanuit beat based elektronische muziek en interacte technologieën maken we een performance van 20 minuten in de publieke ruimte. Het is een mix van ervaringstheater, muziekconcert, interacteve installates.
15 toeschouwers krijgen een rugzak met ingebouwde speaker en een koptelefoon. De speakers ontvangen geluiden die met de ritmes van interacteve installates in de ruimte een composite vormen. Een audiotour uit de koptelefoon wijst de weg door de ruimte en brengt een verhaal over patronen vanuit verschillende perspecteven vertolkt door personages.
+ concept documents
- 20100426_concept01
- concept_patterns_nl_provinciefonds_01
- talentvolle-makers_arne-boon
+ layers of audience
Meeting 19/04: concepting
by arne on Apr.19, 2010, under progress
We are defining concrete concepts week, based on field study / experiments / talks / inspirations of the last month. A moment of reflection.
We planned to create defined concepts for one week, make decisions and build a prototype in one month for the mock-exam.
Starting with fresh concepting-mindset today, the first definitions and idea’s emerged. Download PDF document for pictures of concept sketches.
To pick the most relevant:
oF: project music + interaction: nike music shoe
by arne on Apr.19, 2010, under inspiration
xbox 360 drumkit in oF
by arne on Apr.13, 2010, under development
+ use xbox drumkit in oF
hooked up a xbox 360 drumkit to an interface in openFrameworks.
after installing some drivers to make the xbox 360 controller work with mac osx, the drumkit is simulating a keyboard interface with the key’s you assign in the driver preference panel.
the oF program uses the keyPressed() function to trigger some sounds.
happy drumming!
+ source & how to
- https://code.google.com/p/of-xbox-360-drumkit/
+ openframeworks forum post
- http://www.openframeworks.cc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3665&p=19425#p19425
+ picture
Drop straight lines
by victor on Apr.12, 2010, under development, experiment, uncategorized
Well we are making some test to build a strong concept.
Straight line is a human creation, conceptually it is a repetition of dots in space, then the line repeats a few times to create shapes, shapes repeat to create volumes, volumes merge and repeat to create the human world: objects and architectural spaces.
The straight line in soundscape is also a human delivery.
To create a conceptual relation within electronic music (based on samples, loops and repetitions), our actual soundscape and our physical living places I took a small piece of sound, in this case a drop, and pitched it or repeated it to create a complete set of sounds with the same source, then recorded this small track.
Drops by astrolabio
small2big: fan’s 002
by arne on Apr.12, 2010, under development, experiment
1 Comment :arduino, copy, fan more...
Experiment concepts 12/04
by arne on Apr.12, 2010, under experiment, progress
Sketched some concepts for simple experiments in the line of ‘provoking actions’ / ’sampling behavior’ / ‘copy patterns’.
+ fans small2big
+ smile
+ live copy
+ in argue with the speaker
+ moving sound
