in tones: organ/radio/television/internet [video]
in tones: organ/radio/television/internet took place in both St. Paul’s Hall and Phipps Hall and featured works by Richard Glover, Adam Jansch, Claire M Singer and Richard Warp. The themes this time charted a chronological course, starting with organ and advancing through the key broadcast media of the twentieth century, coming full circle to a throughly contemporary approach to the actuation of acoustic instruments.
in tones two [St. Paul's Hall, 1pm-5pm]
Written by Richard Glover
in tones two was designed to explore how our perceptions interact with sustained-tone environments. Over four hours twelve different ensembles play against a drone major third from St. Paul’s organ, each combining with this sound in subtly different ways. They all play in very close pitch proximity to the organ, so that the familiar sounds of these instruments become enmeshed in sustained clusters. [Video at Vimeo]
RADIOROBOT [Phipps Hall, 3pm-7pm]
Created by Claire M Singer
RADIOROBOT is the first example of an on-going project being explored with analogue radios. This robot-formed sound sculpture takes on a very site specific nature as the radios are finely tuned to not only interact with each other but also to be responsive to electro-magnetic interference, the space in which the sculpture is placed and its geography. [Video at Vimeo]
nullTV analog [Phipps Hall, 3pm-7pm]
Created by Adam Jansch
nullTV analog is the first channel to come from nullTV, the new television service created by Adam Jansch. Three live broadcast television signals are multiplexed in the analogue domain to form a hybrid containing elements of all three in an ever changing flux. [Video at Vimeo]
Music for Online Performer [Phipps Hall and online, 6pm-7pm]
Written by Richard Warp, with technology by Tim Mullen
Music for Online Performer, an interactive installation created by composer Richard Warp and neuroscientist/artist Tim Mullen, utilises live EEG (“brainwaves”) data streamed over the Internet via Open Sound Control from San Diego to Huddersfield. This data is used to play a quartet of robotically actuated instruments in real-time, via an Arduino and Max/MSP. [Video at Vimeo]