IKI EL - In Hands
InHands, an audiovisual real-time improvisation for mobile phones, explores alternative options for musical interactions with two mobile instruments in live performances. In this improvisation piece, audio synthesis modules in each instrument are interconnected and act together with the performer's control gestures. Each mobile instrument's sound output becomes a sound input for the other one; to be processed further with an act of responding immediately and spontaneously. This interaction between the instruments results in a continuous activity for the performer, exploring new formations of sounds and listening consciously, which at the end builds an engaging and creative musical activity. Hannah Drayson created the abstract visual layers of this piece.
Live Audio Cues
Live Audio Cues performance is a musical improvisation process that approaches to experimental music with an emphasis on real-time sounds. It creates a fusion interaction between sound structures. The performance combines improvisation with algorithms that generate a changing set of sonic relations over time. Computer generated improvisation gives an unexpected richness to the sound processing in this live performance. The performance brings together the ever-changing musical identity of a free improvisation and the work of computer in the generative process.
Weighted Blue
Weighted Blue is an audiovisual real-time improvisation for live electronics and self-made solar panel musical instruments. This piece explores noise as a musical element carrying information for the aesthetics of the music. The digital synthesis algorithms of the interactive performance system are interconnected and act together with the performer's control operations. The system is designed with Pure Data environment. Technically, the transformative module applies parameter changes to the transformations of sampled sound materials controlling the playback rate of the polyphonic sampler. In the generative module, probability methods generate the frequency envelope parameters of the sine wave synthesis layer. The sonification module is based on direct data mappings both in frequency and time domain. The work explores solar data of the daily amount of sunspots, the points in the solar disc and the solar wind. The solar panel musical instruments change the polarity of an incoming voltage into an opposite sign value and produce continuous square wave sounds. Hand gestures, and the distance of the light source to the instrument have a strong diverse effect on achieving variety of sounds. It is not always possible to achieve full control over the instruments and there is a possibility of receiving unexpected sounds during a live performance. Hannah Drayson created the abstract visual layers of this piece.
