Thinking Through The Body — connecting interactive art, design and somatic bodywork is a project on which I am currently working. It is funded by an Australia Council for the Arts, ArtLab grant and is bringing together a range of artists, body workers and arts writers to think through notions of embodiment and engagement in a manner that might inform the making and presentation of interactive art.
The above video interview with Sean Montgomery was recorded at the recent Last HOPE conference where Mr. Montgomery exhibited his line of ‘Vital Threads’ projects.
These wearable devices display realtime biological sensor data as visible (and boldly fashionable) adornment. Included in the collection - the Heart-on Shirt which pulses light in sync with Electrocardiogram readings, the Truth Wristband - displaying galvanic skin response as light/color (literally illuminating the “Truth”), and the Thinking Cap which conveys the wearer’s brainwave spectrum via an RGB LED brain shaped dome-hat.
There is likely no more direct way to express the ‘inner self’ via clothing - Vital Threads
Michael Atherton and I (SYNC) are performing a new work for electric guitar and live electronics on Friday night and on Saturday night I am playing a new work for flute and live electronics, titled Fue Sho which I wrote for the Aurora Festival earlier in the year.
A special guest of the conference is Robert Normandeau, one of my favorite electroacoustic composers.
I recommend you check out the Concert Program and come and check out all the great music. There are day time and night time concerts.
Ok, I have decided to have a section of my Blog for personal activities that I would like to share, such as Kayaking. So here is a link to some pics I took a few days ago on my birthday in fact, whilst on a paddle up the Woronora River . I have also logged the path on Google Earth using my new Garmin GPSMAP 76CSx portable marine GPS - which is absolutely wicked….
I am hoping to use the Kayaking category to link the pictures and the Google Earth paths so that others who might be interested can use the information to plan their own trips, and so I have a catalogue of my journeys - we’ll see if I am disciplined enough to do it regularly…
If your interested, I have a FeelFree Moken in a nice sky blue colour, and without all the fishing paraphernalia … It’s a nice boat… it leaked a bit when I first got it, but that was the clips holding the seat in, and was repaired under warrantee, which was good… now it as dry as they come.
This is the Google Earth Link to my paddle path, collected by my GPS while I was paddling back down the Woronora River on July 3. It will open in Google Earth and show you the path and some information about it, like the distance etc. The paddle is about 5 KM in each direction and is very easy.
The AudioCubes are an interesting alternative electronic music controller released onto the market a year or so ago. There is an interesting review of the AudioCubes on Create Digital Music, where to difference between triggering and continuous control is discussed.
Thought you might be interested to hear a recent interview I did on ABC Classic FM’s New Music Up Late with Julian Day. It features 2 new works for Kyma and live acoustic instrument written by me for the Aurora festival. One of them with my collaborator Michael Atherton, for our ensemble SynC.
August 15th, 2008 by 
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