Rob Smith & Ben Challis : Untitled

Challis and Smith's piece brings together motion sensing devices ands live improvisation. Challis research area is designing interfaces for musicians and users with special needs. Here he uses the same technology to trigger, shape and control stored soundfiles whilst Smith works with live conventional instruments subtly skewed by a little bit of DSP (Digital Signal Processing). As a backdrop to this, both use various devices to create a wash of sound as a kind slowly shifting texture from which events can sometimes leap to the foreground. But as with all improvisation, none of the above may take place on the night. This is the 'music of whatever happens'.


:: Open Ear - Cardiff 13/06/08 ::

On June 13th 2008, 8pm till late, Open Ear hosted a free one night only event of experimental work in the ATRiuM Theatre at the University of Glamorgan's newly built ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales (http://cci.glam.ac.uk/). Curated by Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/) the event presented a series of interdisciplinary performances and projections by various sound and visual artists / groups working across the areas of art, music, media and new technologies within live performance / projected contexts.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• performance
• projection
• experimental
• art
• audio-visual
• electro-acoustic
• max/msp
• laptop
• event
• cardiff
• atrium
• smith
• challis

[karmacazee]

Captivating, and I really want some motion sensing MIDI controllers!

From a previous Student ;D

[GlamSU]

great! I bet is sounded even better in the theatre. Are you doing anymore of these this year?

[joshuecathead]

Interesting improvised sounds. Very much like the softer parts where the wind inst plays softly..atmospheric.