Noise Machine

December 23, 2006

Harding Machine

Filed under: Announce — Mickster @ 1:40 pm

I first became aware of these devices a couple of years ago. Now there have been some interesting comments from many working editors about these little beauties. They do alot more than protect people with photosensitive epilepsy, that’s for sure.

Check it out here

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December 12, 2006

CONCERT: EMS-TV

Filed under: Announce — Mickster @ 6:18 pm

7.30pm on the 13th of december.
Click on the picture, or on this link to access the stream. You need to open the link in the quicktime player (it’s an rtsp stream).

If you can’t get it to work, right click the link and copy it (so choose ‘copy shortcut’ on windows, or ‘copy link’ on a Mac) . Launch quicktime and choose file - openURL. Paste the link in and off you go. If you need help copying and pasting links, chances are you may not like the stream much anyway.

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EMS-TV

Filed under: Announce — Mickster @ 11:00 am

EMS-TV TEST SIGNAL
Click HERE (Quicktime required)

YOU NEED TO PLAY THE STREAM IN THE QUICKTIME PLAYER

edit: Tonight’s test stream is over. Tomorrow should be a laugh. The stream will be live again at 7:30pm (ish)

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December 9, 2006

December the 13th

Filed under: Announce — Mickster @ 2:48 pm

Live Webcast from 7.30pm. The link will be published earlier in the day.

Turn up at the great hall, Goldsmiths if you want to take part. All welcome.

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Recent events:

Filed under: Announce — Mickster @ 2:30 pm

Here’s some info on what I’ve been up to: Sorry I didn’t publicise this stuff at all…it’s just that things being the way they are, I havn’t had alot of time.

Thurs 30th of November, Queen Elizabeth Hall. I presented a 5 minute film on Daphne Oram’s work as part of the turntable cafe special on the BBC radiophonic workshop. I have an intense interest in Daphne’s research and practice, and it was great to be invited to be part of this event. I’m sure there will be more rumours about this as time goes on, but let’s just say, it was a good night. The event was tipped in the Guardian.

Nice

Headpress

Fri 8th of December, Some weird venue that no-one else in the world could ever possibly find. In Dalston. After about an hour driving around, I finally got to the venue of the superfine night of Headpress . The event was invite only. I provided audiovisual madness for the whole night. The atmosphere was amazing, and perfect for testing out my new software for the piece ‘articles in space’, which is a live installation based on a bunch of complicated computer stuff. Didn’t get to bed until 6. Then I had to get up for the stuff that happened today….

…which was my presentation for the ‘Live Art Garden Initiative’ artists review series. I was presenting alongside some pretty clever people (including Jem Finer, who’s a really funny guy with some interesting approaches, Honor Harger, who spoke with authority on the creative use of electromagnetic radiation, a great guy called Thor who does nice sound work, and Ruairi Glynn whose work is really exciting). I felt a little sick as I’d only had three hours sleep… In addition, the whole situation was kindof weird, as I mainly do digital art to a crowd or gathering, and the review series seems to be focussing on sculpture in spaces - and/or interactivity, not the effect of sound/light - which is my bag. Everyone’s work was of a very high standard.

Anyhow, I did a bit of articles in space - which was ace fun. The basic system runs off the input from a single video camera with audio feed, and the entire piece is generated just by this information. It uses neural Networks to help organise the material, and the space is rendered in terms of sound and visual processing into an aesthetic which I happen to find exciting. The fun bit is that you basically use the camera as an audiovisual interface to an Artificially Intelligent system. I’m not sure I actually got round to explaining this. Anyhow, I’m pretty sure that it was good, although I was in a bit of a mess. I think I’m coming down with something. It must have been quite obvious.

Finally, I’ve been doing the rounds university-wise. Last friday (1st of december) I gave a talk at Canterbury University, which was fun as its my old stomping ground. The week before that I was speaking at UEA - which felt a little strange, as the head of music, David Chadd has only recently passed away. Simon Waters was really awesome. They bought me a nice meal, and got me drunk. It was weird going back there…havn’t been there since the Soundscape conference in 1989.

There’s more events next week, and loads of things going on in the background that I can’t talk about (as usual).

Anyhow. That’s what I’ve been up to. There were also a few other gigs, and a grant proposal. But I really have to sleep…

Laters

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December 23, 2006

Harding Machine

December 12, 2006

CONCERT: EMS-TV

EMS-TV

December 9, 2006

December the 13th

Recent events:

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