BEAMS with Rapid Fire Theatre Multimedia extravaganza
When: Saturday Nov 30, 8 pm
Where: Ortona Room at the Ortona Armoury 9722-102 st, Edmonton, AB
What: BEAMS + Rapid Fire Theatre Multimedia extravaganza
The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS), together with Rapid Fire Theatre, is presenting an evening of electronic and experimental music and multimedia at the Ortona Room on Saturday, November 30 at 8:00 p.m. Tim Mikula and Colin Matty from RFT will adapt their madcap physical theatre to the surreal soundscapes of St Crispin’s Improv, Skruntskrunt, flEm and agapéraygunexperiment. Sound artists Don Ross, Cam Neufeld, Shawn Pinchbeck, Gene Kosowan, Abram Hindle, Phil Jagger and more will use tech high and low, including motion detectors, Kinect depth sensor camera, projectors, synths, loopers, kaos pad, clarinet, violin and bass.
Borys invited me to his synth-stravaganza so I did a livecoding set using chuck and emacs. This was at the Pawnshop in Edmonton on Whyte Ave 2013-08-22 (I’ll upload videos of the other performers later).
The first part is stereo beating, that is oscillators that are offset by a little bit interacting with each other on the speakers.
The second part is more oscillator swarms buzzing about like insects.
The third part is FM Vocal synthesis, some are just producing random phonemes, others are saying phrases.
Mostitch tries to interpret the audio by running metrics on the input
audio (backstreet boys) and then matches it to the closest audio from
the fm synthesizer. Then it reports the index of the best match in the
synthesizer. This best match aligns with a set of parameters that we
feed back into the original synthesizer.
To give you some idea of the roundabout path we take here’s an example
of how everything starts:
Mostitch tries to interpret the audio by running metrics on the input
audio (backstreet boys) and then matches it to the closest audio from
the fm synthesizer. Then it reports the index of the best match in the
synthesizer. This best match aligns with a set of parameters that we
feed back into the original synthesizer.
To give you some idea of the roundabout path we take here’s an example
of how everything starts: