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experimental music
NIME concert
16/06/10 05:43
I am delighted to have Jason Noble from Ensemble Offspring playing my piece Grace Space as part of the opening night concert for the NIME 2010 conference in Sydney on June 17, 7PM at the Eugene Goosens Hall at the ABC Ultimo Centre. It will utilise 8 channels of Meyer UPJ1s to generate clouds of sound using the Kyma system from the clarinet part which is scored. Hope to see you at one of the NIME concerts. Cheers, Garth
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Tod Machover new opera
16/02/10 19:54
Tod Machover is head of the Media Lab’s Hyperinstruments/Opera of the Future group. I have not been a great fan, but he does some interesting things and this is an interesting background interview
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - birds talk
24/01/10 21:30
Another approach to getting a pay check without having to play the music 
New commission for The Curve, Barbican, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery...
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery...
Free admission
Times: Open daily 11am-8pm
Open late every Thu until 10pm - poor birdies should have gone to sleep by then
New commission for The Curve, Barbican, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery...
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery...
Free admission
Times: Open daily 11am-8pm
Open late every Thu until 10pm - poor birdies should have gone to sleep by then
Pat Metheny's Orchestrion
24/01/10 21:19
This Pat Metheny project is very interesting. He has built/had built (they look like Eric Singers work to me??) an Orchestrion, a robotic orchestra that is responding to his guitar playing style on the fly - check it out
Vision tests
18/01/10 03:03
I am experimenting with some algorithmic approaches to image generation, preparing some material for live electronic music performance, driven by the sound, and I rather like this one
Moving from Garth Paine on Vimeo.
Darker Edge of Night Video
21/12/09 15:57
Darker Edge of Night - Development Stage 2 - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
All sound from vocalisations from the dancer with realtime control via bio-sensing
Dancer: Hellen Sky
Interactive Bio-Sensing and realtime sonification: Garth Paine
Image work: Brandon and Hellen
All sound from vocalisations from the dancer with realtime control via bio-sensing - muscles, brain waves and 2d accelerometers on the dancer
All sound from vocalisations from the dancer with realtime control via bio-sensing
Dancer: Hellen Sky
Interactive Bio-Sensing and realtime sonification: Garth Paine
Image work: Brandon and Hellen
All sound from vocalisations from the dancer with realtime control via bio-sensing - muscles, brain waves and 2d accelerometers on the dancer
Darker Edge of Night - V2, August 2009 from Garth Paine on Vimeo.
Experimental Video performance
21/12/09 15:46
Some experiments in using musical analysis to drive image generation in realtime. I am interested in video generation from the music I am making in performance and have been looking for a platform that makes interesting results - tell me what you think of this?
Evolving Tapestry from Garth Paine on Vimeo.
Singing Bowl Robot Video
20/11/09 19:58
Here is a little video of the singing bowl robot I have been building - this is V2 prototype. I still have some work to do to refine the leather I am using on the beater stick to get the tone I want. At the moment the tone is a bit raspy - there is also some inconsistency as I have managed to drop the bowls with motors attached a few times so they are a little inconsistent I think - some work to do there to smooth them out again... Anyway here is the beginnings of a growing thing....
The Singing Bowls Robot V2 from Garth Paine on Vimeo.
The Bowls V2
17/12/09 20:49
Version 2 of the Singing Bowls robots.
This one is excellent - the motors are really quiet - the foam works really well - easy to work, good quietening characteristics and really strong. I am very proud of the spring loaded servo connection to the playing stick - this allows for small variations in pressure and for minor in-consistencies in the bowls symmetry. You can see the Arduino and Xbee in a pocket and the battery pack goes in the other side.
In the end I will have 6 sets that can be hung in a space generating physical diffusion of sound. I am also thinking they could be used for perambulatory performances.
I will try and upload a video in the next week.
This one is excellent - the motors are really quiet - the foam works really well - easy to work, good quietening characteristics and really strong. I am very proud of the spring loaded servo connection to the playing stick - this allows for small variations in pressure and for minor in-consistencies in the bowls symmetry. You can see the Arduino and Xbee in a pocket and the battery pack goes in the other side.
In the end I will have 6 sets that can be hung in a space generating physical diffusion of sound. I am also thinking they could be used for perambulatory performances.
I will try and upload a video in the next week.