Listening Glass in NY
A work (Listening Glass) which I collaborated with my friend rene is being exhibited in New York in November!
I got an email confirming it two days ago - sorry for keeping it under rapps.
Its a interactive installation with realtime sound video generated by the audio input of a microphone (the one that's being used in NY will be a pre-natal heartbeat monitor). The work is designed to utilise a shop-front window as both the speaker and rear-projection screen. We are using stick-on resonators and drafting film on the glass with a projector situated further behind in the space.
The sound material is granulated audio that is fed in from the mic, while the video (pictured above) is cellular automata which increases in cells/intensity with sound increases (i.e. people walk by etc). I won't go into all the conceptual side here primarily due to lazyness- just think about notions of machine translation of an ordinary street scene, happening in the now.
Blerg! I hate to summarise.
Anyway - its a nice work.
::Listening to - Mogwai | Moses? I Amn't::
posted by jazqer at 10:53 am
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Okay, let me start off by saying that we split the programing up into three sections: the shell, the video and the audio.
The video component was Rene's side while I programed the shell and the audio engine- soooooo, I'm not very confident in giving info on that side of the work.
What I DO know is:
* The msp shell fed the video engine a series of integers according to what
was comming into the machine from the microphone(s). From memory the simple connection one can make is the louder the input was the brighter the work became.
* the video was split into several pre-renders of the cells which we merged/collaged via transitions in realtime.
* rene used some kind of algorithm to generate the cells.
Sorry- maybe rene will hop on here and fill us in (it was sooooo long ago!).
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