Investigation:
Acousmatic-Surround Piece
The audience will then move through to the main space, in which there will be a 7.1 Surround speaker setup and a projector/screen. A 20 minute spatial acousmatic piece will be played, made almost entirely out of audio samples taken, or generated, from the Negative Beauty recording and graphic score. These samples will have been created using the following processes: raw data sonification (of sounds and images), pitch modulation, PaulStretch time modulation, reversal, bit-reduction/sample-rate-reduction, and combinations of all of the above.
To generate musical passages from these samples, some longer, more droning samples will be arranged on a timeline in Logic Pro or Pro Tools, and some shorter ones will be mapped to a Max-generated sampler pad, like the one used in Hakubutsugaku (2014). Ultimately, these processes will overlap. Even though I tend to work electroacoustically, usually within a DAW, Max/MSP or other programs, I find improvisation to be indispensable. Without it, I lose motivation and my work slows to a standstill. Therefore, much of the music heard in the acousmatic performance will be the result of electronically processed pre-production, sample-based improvisation and DAW post-production.
The visual projections will be one continuous movie file, cut together from photographs and moving images shot during collaborations with Dirk Nienaber, Priera Russell, Gonni Bruekkers and myself. Some Jitter-based manipulation may be included, but not during the live performance. Open source application Blender is being used for the editing.
Equipment List
7x Powered Monitors (borrowed)
7x Speaker Stands (borrowed)
1x Powered Sub Speaker (borrowed)
2x Macbook Pro (borrowed)
1x Projector (owned)
1x Projector Screen (must purchase - frame/stand owned)
30x Plastic Chairs (borrowed)
To generate musical passages from these samples, some longer, more droning samples will be arranged on a timeline in Logic Pro or Pro Tools, and some shorter ones will be mapped to a Max-generated sampler pad, like the one used in Hakubutsugaku (2014). Ultimately, these processes will overlap. Even though I tend to work electroacoustically, usually within a DAW, Max/MSP or other programs, I find improvisation to be indispensable. Without it, I lose motivation and my work slows to a standstill. Therefore, much of the music heard in the acousmatic performance will be the result of electronically processed pre-production, sample-based improvisation and DAW post-production.
The visual projections will be one continuous movie file, cut together from photographs and moving images shot during collaborations with Dirk Nienaber, Priera Russell, Gonni Bruekkers and myself. Some Jitter-based manipulation may be included, but not during the live performance. Open source application Blender is being used for the editing.
Equipment List
7x Powered Monitors (borrowed)
7x Speaker Stands (borrowed)
1x Powered Sub Speaker (borrowed)
2x Macbook Pro (borrowed)
1x Projector (owned)
1x Projector Screen (must purchase - frame/stand owned)
30x Plastic Chairs (borrowed)