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4 years 2 weeks ago |
Local Resonance Amplifier |
Local Resonance Amplifiers (LRA) are parasitic city devices (PCD)
which amplify and dislocate wide band electromagnetic (EM) emissions
or signals. Mushroomed LRA devices serve as mute witness, creating
significant physical and symbolic imbalances within complex city-wide
spectral ecologies: subtle interactions between physical
constructions, communication technologies (wireless networks, mobile
phone networks, RFID, television, radio, radar), power lines and lines
of transmission, biological phenomena, and geologic properties. |
2009, Exhibits |
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4 years 2 weeks ago |
Mixing Cities |
Mixing Cities brings together the real-time ('live') sounds of several cities in an audiovisual installation. The interface consists of two speakers and a panel with five faders and five lamps. The environmental sounds at five locations are picked up by microphones and directly transmitted to Mixing Cities. One can adjust the volume of the incoming sounds by using the faders. In this way it is possible to listen to the sounds of one or more cities at the same time. Apart from the live sound, the current lighting at the locations is registered with sensors and directly translated into the light intensity of the lamps. By choosing and switching between the cities one can make his own journey between the cities and get a different experience... |
2009, Exhibits |
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4 years 2 weeks ago |
RFID Art |
This project will take the identity inferred on people by their oyster cards and use it to turn them into an artist. Each participant will be given part of a famous piece of art to recreate. In its rest state, the installation will show the current collaborative work. When a visitor swipes their Oyster card, the piece of art it is based on will show up faintly with the area assigned to them indicated. Using the light pen participants will then draw their interpretation of the area they have been given. They will be given either a selection of colours or, possibly, some predefined shapes or images. There will also be a website showing the current collaborative work. |
2009, Exhibits |
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4 years 2 weeks ago |
SOUND NOMADS |
ABOUT SOUNDNOMADS
The surroundings as DIY music instrument.
Ger Ger's SOUND NOMADS project is comprised of a combination of sound art, music, public art, performance, interactive installations as well as video. The constant search for noises, sounds and rhythms lies as central to SOUND NOMADS as the creation of ephemeral interactive sensor based playgrounds.
SOUND NOMADS actions mainly consist of three steps:
COLLECT site specific sound huntings/field recordings on and off the nomad way
PROCESS creation of sound/music scores, programming, hardware settings
REFLECT backtrack compositions, art performances/video.
Entire squares, hotspots, fields, meadows, ponds and patterns from day to day life are instrumentalized, and played. Surrounding... |
2009, Exhibits |
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4 years 2 weeks ago |
Sensory Response Systems |
Sensory Response Systems is an exploration into audiovisual performance using an array of sensors and diy electronics responsive to physical movements in order to control the audiovisual output in programs such as Pure Data (Pd), SuperCollider, Processing, etc. It also looks at reshaping and replicating the body through the use of fabric, textiles, technology and light. This work uses DIY hardware to build a new interface for live computer music performance, aiming to turn the performers body and clothes into an instrument allowing them to embody new technologies and computational devices.
The performance alters the perspective of the performer and performance space through noise, strobe lighting and computational technologies. Flickering... |
2009, Exhibits |
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4 years 2 weeks ago |
Jelly Fish Musical Instrument |
This work is an interactive sound installation. If a participant touches the holes on the surface of the hemisphere, each sound for each hole will be created from inside of the hemisphere. Each hole represents each musical note that is similar to sound come from micro insects or micro organisms under the deep sea. The whole concept of objects and sounds will remind one of deep sea and sea organisms like jellyfish. |
2009, Exhibits |
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4 years 2 weeks ago |
RFID Gesture Generating Robot |
I am interested in the human reaction to physical motion, particularly the characteristics of motion that make something appear elegant as it moves. In addition, I am fascinated by how one can encourage empathy with a machine by the way it moves. I am convinced that a moving, tangible object has a different impact on people to a 2D image displayed on a screen.
I propose a robot made of two stepper motors mounted so that one rotates in a horizontal plane and one in a vertical plane. They move a wand-like appendage in space, much like a orchestra conductor's baton. An RFID reader mounted on the window glass reads people's Oystercards and generates a pattern of motion from the tag number and thus generates a gesture that is unique (and... |
2009, Exhibits |
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4 years 2 weeks ago |
Marcus Lyall - Pitch Control |
A while ago, I filmed 25 people individually in a recording studio. I played them each note in the classical human vocal range, and asked them to sing it for four seconds. This was surprisingly
difficult, even for more experienced singers. Few people could sing in tune, or cover anything like the vocal range I requested. But the attempts were valiant, and the results were varied and unique.
I then edited them into a series of individual audiovisual samples. With the programming expertise of artist/code genius Evan
Raskob, I developed a custom computer program that allows these audiovisual samples to be played back in the manner of a vintage Fairlight synthesiser.
The result is an instrument that allows this amateur choir to be played like... |
2009, Exhibits |
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4 years 2 weeks ago |
Festival Exhibition 2009 |
The exhibition is open:
Monday to Friday 10:00 - 17:00
Saturday 23 May 12:00 - 17:00
Saturday 30 May 12:00 - 15:00
Please Note: the Exhibition finishes on Saturday 30 May at 15:00
In 2008, the Takeaway Festival team received funding from the Arts Council to support a commissions programme for
artists using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) or whose work redefines the accepted meaning of the term “musical instrument”. This programme attracted nearly 30 submissions from the UK, the USA, Greece, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands
and Austria.
The Exhibition includes both the commissioned artists and some of the other artists who submitted proposals.
Marcus Lyall (UK): Pitch Control
http://www.takeawayfestival.com/Exhibits/... |
2009, Exhibits |
