S.M.I.L.E. INTERFACE AND ECOTONE II, GREEN SOUND IMPROVISATION WORK (2008-2010)

New media and technology can extend data into our material environment through sensors and interfaces, as well as with content and draw upon the immediacy of bodily movement, gestural expression and physiology. The artist explores this through improvisations with a custom built interface exploring the boundaries of two "communities" of synthesized audio in a sonic "environment".  The interface, called S.M.I.L.E. or spherical media instrument for live environments, uses various sensors, tracks movement and produces light and sound in real-time. The outcome of the project is the convergence of audio-visual content with physical movement, as well as how an "intelligent" software environment can respond to the player's activity in the production of a soundscape. The content and apparatus is an expressive extension and prosthesis of the performer's hands, arms and body, encouraging movement through technology, sound and light. S.M.I.L.E. breaks new ground by the use of light (LEDs) to augment the performer's gesture in improvising with audio-visual material.

More info...
http://organicode.net/smile.html

Artist's site...
http://organicode.net/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• computer
• electronic
• music
• performance
• experimental
• visual
• LED
• sensors

[audiovisuality]

@ThePurestData hey, cheers! that could happen in the future. still need to work out the housing.

[ThePurestData]

Wow, Andrew, this is great. This has come a long way since the version I first saw. Any chance I could get one of these?