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Pitch Control at the Takeaway Festival 19-30 May

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The Science Museum’s Dana Centre
165 Queen’s Gate
South Kensington
London
SW7 5HD

Pitch Control still image of installation

Pitch Control still image of installation

Pitch Control is a musical instrument that allows you to play a projected choir of (mostly) amateur singers.
Here’s some further information on it:

http://mlstudio.co.uk/pitch-control-photos/
http://www.takeawayfestival.com/
http://www.danacentre.org.uk/

There’s a viewing night on May 19th. If you’d like to come along, please email me as I’ve got to book spaces.

The instrument will be played by a select group of keyboard players, and then available to be played by anyone who’d like to.

Alternatively, the installation runs between May 19th – 30th, between 10am and 5pm.

Please feel free to come down and tickle the ivories.

Resonance Ghent Review

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Resonance Livecoding with Gabor and PixelPusher

Resonance Livecoding with Gabor and PixelPusher, photo by Dave Griffiths

Resonance Ghent invited a group of livecoders, audio and visual to perform livecoding all day in the delightful little gallery Espace Ladda, next to the Vooruit cutlural center, in the center of town. As a piece of what can almost be described as “productive performance art” we sat in a tight circle of laptops enmeshed with projectors and surrounded by projection screens, grinding out audio and visuals from live software coding. Interested people wandered around us, and occasionally asked what we were doing, sparking off some pleasant conversations about all things art, code, visual, and audio.

The Resonance festival as seen by Spin Magazine (video).

Photos from Bram De Jong.

Dave Griffith’s blog recap of Resonance (with pics)

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Immersion Wrap-up 7 Aug 2008

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Thanks to all who packed in The Flea Pit to hear and see the last Immersion night.  Alias had his Immersion pixelist debut during Dr. No’s and Straight’s rather laid-back sets.  I rolled out my new Jellotail live drawing software during Michael Santos’s richly textured tones and got so immersed in the performance that I forgot to change visuals.  Special gues VJ and VJ Loops impresario Kyle Lyons was in from Spain to provide some visual cover to the machine gun synths of Jamka, while Dr. Mo accompanied the very danceable beats of Manchester’s MOQ.  Somehow, though, it was slub who brought the house down at the end with their autonomous-robot-drum-machine-livecoding-textual-based-computer-sound-madness culminating in crashing (or at least shutting down in a not-so-safe manner) all their laptops at the apex of their sonic madness.

Thanks to all who came, and those who performed! Definitely one of my favorite Immersion nights.

Immersion 7 Feb 2008 Wrap-up

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My first thought after (and during) this past Immersion at The Flea Pit, London – Where did all you people come from?! People were queued up in the hallway leading to the performance wing of The Pit for almost the entire night. It got so crowded that I had to stop videoing the event, people were in the way of my camera. We had to trust our laptop screen in the back while doing visuals because we couldn’t see past the crowd to the screens!

Of course, this is a good thing. Thanks to everyone who showed up! Your enthusiasm and energy makes these (free) events worthwhile.

Immersion 7 Feb 2008 Set 1a
PixelPusher Set 1 with Gabrial Da Piaz (Quicktime divx, 19MB)

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video – Immersion 6 Dec 2007 Set 2 with 0 > 1

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Energetic and and intense set from PixelPusher (visuals) and 0 > 1 (sound). Dang it, there was such good bass in the room when I recorded this track, but my camera microphone didn’t pick up any of it. To get the full experience, get out a large metallic drum and give it a good whack whenever you see the visuals in the background flicker (they were working off the bass volume). I might have 0 > 1 re-do this track if/when we decide to put out an Immersion DVD.

PixelPusher and 0 > 1 2007-12-6 Immersion 1
Quicktime dvx ~189MB

more pics:

PixelPusher and Gareth Mitchell 2007-12-6 Immersion 2
PixelPusher and Gareth Mitchell 2007-12-6 Immersion 3
PixelPusher and Gareth Mitchell 2007-12-6 Immersion 4

video – Immersion 6 Dec 2007 Set 1 with Orfeus 9 and Transphormetic

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Another great night. Transphormetic and myself trading off visuals and mixing it up for the night to a line-up of really interesting sounds and more-than-danceable music. Of course, this being London, the crowd sat in polite reverence and did not spontaneously erupt into a fit of throwing shapes and hopping around like some other cities (Berlin I’m looking at you! Have you no shame?!)

Here is a snippet from the first set to get you in the mood for movin’:

PixelPusher_ Transphormetic_ Orfeus 9_ 2007-12-6 Immersion
Quicktime divx ~99MB


more pics:

PixelPusher_ Transphormetic_ Orfeus 9_ 2007-12-6 Immersion 2

PixelPusher_ Transphormetic_ Orfeus 9_ 2007-12-6 Immersion 3