Damian and N.I.P 2007
Damian Stewart
Where I come from
- music
- electroacoustic music
- music with tapes, synthesizers, computers, laptops, ...
- composed in studios
- free jazz
- music with saxophones, guitars, percussion, ...
- immediate, improvised
What I've been up to
- New Zealand: free jazz, electroacoustic studies
- Birmingham: sonic arts residency, arts on this side of the world
- Portugal:
- Sonic Scope
- with Variable Geometry Orchestra
- as part of Creative Sources Recordings' Creative Fest 01
- ongoing collaboration with Chris Sugrue - 'A Cable Plays'
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Laptop Performance?
- "A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved ... for the revealing of his humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener ... Those who maintain that all of this can be accomplished without gesture will retract their words when, owing to their own insensibility, they find themselves obliged to sit like a statue before their instrument. Ugly grimaces are, of course, inappropriate and harmful; but fitting expressions help the listener to understand our meaning."
- C.P.E. Bach, Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753)
Laptop Performance?
- Robert Henke: "We could come to the conclusion that only simple, rough and direct performances are real performances, forget about complexity and detail and next time we are invited to perfom we grab a drum computer, a cheap keyboard, a microphone, and make sure we are really drunk. It might actually work very well. But what to do, if this it is not what we want musically?" - Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputing - link
Performance research
- agility: from one sound to the next
- fitting in, sonically: filtering, textures
- communication: sharing ideas with other musicians
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PureData + MIDI controller
- draw on free jazz: software to encourage improvisation
- midi controller: coarse-grained motor action
- no screen: free the eyes
A Cable Plays
- collaboration with Chris Sugrue
- computer vision analysis of a game-like interface
- live video and audio augmentation
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A Cable Plays
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A Cable Plays - Next
- connect audio and video using OpenSoundControl
- further concept development
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Thanks!
damian@frey.co.nz
http://www.frey.co.nz
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