Salutation

Here’s another microtrack for the dance project I’m working on in collaboration with Annichia Arts. This is a glitchy experiment I produced with the Roland MKS-80 while holding down a dark, dense, jazz chord.

Salutation

Culled and Shifted

This is a rough rendering of a short piece of sound that is part of a larger dance piece that is being produced by Annichia Arts. I’ll explain more about the piece at a later date. A shorter, less processed version of the piece was posted here.

Culled and Shifted

Wired: Installation lets you remix actor’s face and voice

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Olivia Solon of Wired.co.uk wrote an article describing my piece, Voice Lessons. I have creativeapplications.net to thank for this one. Olivia found the article about my piece there and then emailed me to ask for a brief interview. We conducted the interview over email and the article was published the next day. Read the article by Filip Visnjic on Creative Applications Network. Read the article from Olivia Solon on Wired. Thanks, Filip and Olivia!

Video of Voice Lessons Touch Screen Installation

Voice Lessons is an electronic, audio device that interrogates the popular myth that every musical instrument imitates the human voice. Touching the screen allows the participant to manipulate the visuals and vocalizations of the “voice teacher” as he recites vocal warm up exercises.

The piece resides in the space between a musical instrument and voice lesson. Move the touch point left, right, up, and down to explore the visual and auditory possibilities. Rapid high pitched loops occur while touching near the top of the screen while lower pitched longer loops are heard near the bottom.

The actor, also named John Keston, is my retired father who became a voice teacher after a long career on stage in plays, operas, and musicals with the Royal Shakespeare Company in our native country England and abroad.

Voice Lessons
32” interactive touch screen installation
By John Keston 2011
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