Noise Machine

My paper, NOISESCAPE: AN INTERACTIVE 3D AUDIOVISUAL MULTI-USER COMPOSITION ENVIRONMENT has been selected for the icmc2007. The paper will be presented alongside a Demo of the NOISESCAPE software - which is basically my own 3D openGL ‘Game’ environment that has been designed for use in composition. It has mass-spring-damper model physics and dynamic models (just in case you were interested), and was designed entirely in Max/MSP/Jitter. I’ll be posting more on all this later - I promise, although - as I have hinted before, if you want more background information on what this might actually be about, you should check out the official Project Web Resource at http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cave, which I will be updating more regularly from the end of this month.

In addition, a co-authored paper (with the most excellent Prof. Michael Casey) has also been selected. ‘SOUNDSPOTTER / REMIX-TV: FAST APPROXIMATE MATCHING FOR AUDIO AND VIDEO PERFORMANCE’. This paper details a number of improvements to Casey’s amazing ‘Soundspotter’ software, and discusses a few applications for algorithmic video editing. Those who have seen my real-time composition Third World Warhol might be able to work out why I got involved here…

laters

Well, looks like the olympic games website has had to pull promotional footage as a result of it causing seizures and failing a harding test. 2.5 million people worldwide suffer from photosensitive epilepsy. What’s it doing to the rest of us I wonder? Some reports that it was broadcast on TV - This is an interesting anomaly. Harding complained - they should have used his machine before any large scale broadcast instead of simply issuing a warning - which of course they didn’t do.

Here’s a link to the footage itself. Don’t watch it unless you like the work of Norman McLaren, Len Lye and similar experimental filmmakers of which the footage is generally derivative *(even down to the !TYPE AND USE OF THE MUSIC!)*. It’s the swimming pool bit. Look and listen carefully. It’s really very interesting in a colour box kind of way and pretty successful.

Now watch Norman McLaren from 1940

Now watch Len Lye “A Colour Box” (1935) + “Free Radicals” (1958)

Some other Youtube links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uo3u6s4MLU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6vuccmcbCM

Loads of coverage all over the place.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6724245.stm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/06/olympic_footage_scare/

http://news.aol.co.uk/seizure-claim-hits-olympics-website/article/20070605143209990002

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=51907&in_page_id=34

I wonder how many of the 0.004 % of the population who have these types of seizures went to see Tony Conrad’s flicker in 1966? Must have been at least one. Interestingly, Conrad was in London last week and gave a good talk to students at Goldsmiths College. What a great guy (I had planned to write this talk up - I may do this later).

There’s going to be a run of interesting concerts at the shunt , joiner street, London, starting on Wednesday the 13th June, and continuing the following week. I’ll be performing on the 13th, and also taking part in some of the other events. It’s a great venue and well worth the £5 entry fee.

Then I’m in Bristol on the 15th (I think).

After that I’m heading down to the Sonic Arts Network Expo in Plymouth. Whoa. More on this later.