i swallow at the New Toronto Works Show

i swallow, by David McCallum
Pleasure Dome's New Toronto Works Show
Latvian House, Toronto
February 24, 2007

If you're curious about what's going on, I'm playing the feedback through the microphone at the top of the MacBook's screen. Using my mouth, I can coax the feedback into different frequencies, playing it like an instrument.

The cool thing about the MacBook's design is the placement of the mic and webcam, directly beside each other. By projecting the camera's view, the audience has a bit of an understanding of what's going on, or at least a connection between the sound and my actions—something that's lacking in most electronic music performance.

Both the video and audio techniques are *super* simple and have been around for years. The simplicity of this creative process is what makes this fascinating for me, all thanks to the innovative interface designers at Apple.

Camera work by Erik Martinson.

See the camera's-eye view here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-FMkG1V2Sw

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• video
• feedback
• improv
• noise
• ambient
• music
• webcam
• isight
• pleasuredome
• toronto

[Zekenstein]

It's like if Jesus was born of Laptop, untouched by man, clean from box.

Get it? "Box"? ... I mean ... come on, it's ... ah, never mind.

[alphagettijoe]

well played, old bean. nice vid

[theraf2u]

Cool stuff, Davey boy. You always are the man for innovative ways of making electronic noise :-). Cheers bud.