Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Our talented friend Guille Lopez, who collaborated with Aer in projects such as The Turn, has been responsible for developing part of the front end of the new “personalized video clip” of Arcade Fire.
The Wilderness Downtown is an experiment by Google to test the capabilities of HTML5 combined with some of their services, like Google Maps. Just type your full address in the form, turn your speaker on and let the comic style story begin.
Earlier this week Aer went with Catalan electronic musician,
bRUNA, to participate in
Sónar’s first venture (that I’m aware of) into the U.S… specifically, The Windy City, Chi Town, a.k.a Chicago. The performance was held in the majestic
Chicago Cultural Center with it’s over 100 year old Tiffany Co. massive stained glass domes. As in Barcelona, we provided the visual accompaniment for bRUNA’s bright electronic music. Unfortunately, do to budget limitations we were unable to take the light table that everyone loved from the Barcelona performance. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise. We adjusted by bringing the over-sized projection screen closer to bRUNA and therefore giving all the protagonism to the now HUGE visuals. bRUNA and Hector were swimming ceiling to floor in lights, patterns and glitches. It made all the difference. We missed the light table, but as serendipity would have it, we would have never seen the visuals in that way if it weren’t for the budget constraints.
As a side note, go to Chicago! The architecture is stunning, the people VERY friendly and there is music and art everywhere.
Heart music, what would a symphony of hearts sound and look like,
Terminalbeach (a collaboration between PURE and BERGER) visualized the heartbeats of 12 classical musicians of the
Trondheim Sinfonietta in image and sound. Really interesting to see both media combined in this way…
Tech info:
PURE: “Visualisation is done with PD|Gem, composition and real-time notation with MAX/Jitter, analysis and statistics with both. The wireless signals from the heart rate sensors are received by an arduino board connected to the musician´s notation laptops via USB.”
via notcot
What music does the movement of fish create? Great experiment of A Quiet Ensemble.
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Quiet Ensemble seeks to compose sounds out of the most casual movements of the “invisible concerts” of everyday life. Utilizing technology to capture, express and translate our most natural of routines, Quiet Ensemble builds narratives that explore not only the music of our lives but also conceptual relationships between the natural and built environment.” Read more on
Yatzer >>
PTA is a live audio-visual performance focusing on precise synchronisations between sound and image. It is a result of multiple collaborations with various musicians worldwide.
Inspired by waveforms, PTA takes form as a central spine where ever-evolving graphical compositions grow from and within.
Visit the project’s page.
