GMS Video Experiment w/ Reason from Dane Messall on Vimeo.
My student, Dane Messall, has been experimenting with the GMS over the break and just posted this video experiment. He imported the video into the GMS and then interfaced it with Reason’s Thor synthesizer to generate the sound. Nice one, Dane!
Andrea Streudel just posted some really nice video documentation of the People on Shelves exhibit that was performed on December 9, 2009 at the West Bank Social Center, using music I created during the show. From the original post, “The world premiere of maw.shelves, a software for dynamic 3-dimensional projection. We overlaid another projector to place our real-time, full-body silhouettes on the “shelves”. Music was performed live by Ostraka.” Checkout Minneapolis Art on Wheels for more details.
Last Tuesday I performed a sound art installation titled, Fives, at the University of Minnesota. The subtitle of the work is, Five Movements for Five Sampled Sounds in Five Loud Speakers. To produce the sound for the work I used the wavetable glitch machine that I have discussed in a number of recent entries, controlled over a wireless network with an iPod Touch running TouchOSC. The sound objects generated were amplified through five distinct loud speakers arranged on pedestals at about chest height in a pentagonal configuration.
I have more detailed documentation about the project on my portfolio site along with a few photographs taken during the performance, and a 15:37 audio study of the piece in stereo, simulating the five channels necessary to perform the work. Check it out at the link below.
As the GMS approaches three-hundred downloads, I’m starting to get a few questions regarding technical problems. It’s exciting that people are starting to use my software, but as an individual developer, who is also a composer, instructor, performer, and student, I don’t have time to diagnose and troubleshoot every problem on every system.
Therefore, I am asking for your help. If you have downloaded the GMS, please post a comment here describing your success stories or problems. In either instance, please include details about your environment including the operating system, computer specs, camera in use, and if you’re using internal or external sync.
I’ll do my best to respond to Mac issues, but I don’t have consistent access to Windows. If you’re up and running on Windows please respond to questions if you have ideas on how to fix the problem. As always, I’m interested in hearing what you do with the GMS, so post a link to your tracks, and thanks to everyone for participating.
I’ve just rendered my full eighty-six minute Ostraka set from last night’s event at the West Bank Social Center. So, while waiting for the delightful documentation that Andrea Streudel is sure to produce, here’s a short segment of audio from the set.
I used Ableton Live to produce in real-time and my wavetable glitch machine Max patch to make most of the noises, which I routed into Live using Soundflower.
The projection work of the evening was top notch. An entire wall of the building across from the WBSC was covered with animated silhouettes of attendees on simulated three dimensional “shelves”.
Here’s the excerpt. I’m also including a link to the entire eighty-six minute set that I uploaded to soundcloud.com for all the brave people who’d like to hear the full set.
Excerpt from Music for People on Shelves