Output details

Triggered

Portfolio Output 2 (see attached WEBLINK and Portfolio DVD-ROM; The content on the web links to equivalent material as to be found on the DVD-ROM)

Triggered: composition and performance environments involving bespoke novel hardware and software interfaces (Gaggle, Wired, Metapiano and Hanging Glyphs)

including journal article ‘The Metapiano: composing and improvising with sculpture’ Peer reviewed article (complete) Proceedings of International Symposium for Electronic Arts, Istanbul, 2011 and ICMC 2011, HCI 2010 and AES 2012 papers (See WEBLINK and DVD-ROM)

One of the principal locations for the creative use of the Gaggle and Wired interfaces has been the collaborative music-dance production, Triggered. Triggered began when myself and a colleague were invited to contribute to the British Computer Society’s Human Computer Interaction conference held in Cambridge in 2009, collaborating with a troupe of dancers led by the choreographer Jane Turner. For this I prepared an experimental interface called the Gaggle which uses multiple ultrasound sensors and an Arduino board to interface with various functions and algorithms written in SuperCollider. This has resulted in a number of events and outputs, some of which are included in this submission. My part in the collaboration includes composition, software and hardware construction and prepared and improvised performance. The performances, along with the conference itself, were covered by the press, both national and local.

Triggered examines the nature of electronic and digital interfaces for musical expression through the specific use of sensors the data from which is used to control multiple (and changing) musical parameters developed using the music and audio language SuperCollider which provides a structured environment essential for developments such as this.

MORE INFO on attached DVD-ROM and WEBLINK