MICE (Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble) "Money MICE"

"Money MICE" was created for the Charlottesville Fringe Festival which in 2003 used the theme, "Money". In this piece, a play on street busking, the audience throws coins into resonators on staged. The resonances are transduced and used as the basis for all the music.

MICE (the Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble) was formed at UVA in 2001. Matthew Burtner created the group to explore a genre of multi-performer interactive music systems with a precedent in the work of Stockhausen (Germany, 1960s), The Hub (California, 1980s), and Sensorband (Netherlands, 1990s). MICE extends this genre of human-computer ensemble interaction by developing network technologies and artificial intelligence systems for performance with innovative gestural controllers. Since 2001 MICE has given performances at venues such as the University of Washington, Charlottesville Fringe Festival, Virginia Film Festival, Digitalis, and the Most Significant Bytes Festival. Papers for the NIME and ICMC conferences describe the MICE approach of the early 2000s. In 2008, with support of T+TI Grant and Fellowship, the group expanded into an orchestral scale. Modeled on LAN-party gaming infrastructure, MICE makes emergent music out of massive data generation.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• electronic
• computer
• orchestra
• mice
• experimental
• alternate
• controllers
• electronica
• network
• laptop
• ensemble