Music for remote controllers - Technical commentary

Music for remote controllers is what I call pieces I have adapted for a set of simple instruments intended for audience interaction. I called these local network instruments. These remote controls are intended to be generic enough to be adaptable to pieces either written for them or adapted to them and simple enough that they need little or no explanation. They were designed in a minimalist wireless 'remote control' fashion and include a single knob that doubles as a push button and an eight by eight tri-colour LED grid. Ten of these are housed in custom built cases giving a look somewhere between a guitar stomp box with a screen and a wood panelled vintage synthesiser. The interesting possibility of the devices is that they allow a piece to be tried out with an inexperienced or non-expert 'community' audience with a minimal amount of explanation. The idea of the remotes is to simplify the idea of the instrument in a piece such that audience members operate only the key parts of the piece using the minimal interaction afforded by a single push button rotary encoder. It was premiered in SARC's sonic lab in 2011 with a rendition of Philip Glass' One and One and Terry Riley's In C. This can be viewed here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7KXLW0YhEU


I am currently working on my own works written specially for this interface.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• music
• interactive music
• local network instruments
• max msp
• live
• audience interaction