Lisbon 2011 Gig

Concert in Galeria LerDevagar, Lisbon with Ulrich Mitzlaff (cello), Carlos Zingaro (violon) and Pedro Rebelo (piano)

ICMC 2008 is over

ICMC 2008 is behind us. We are all relieved and have had our one day post-ICMC depression. Now back to our daily jobs...
Here are further photos on flickr from the entire ICMC week.
(Photos below courtesy of Christopher Chong)

Photos:

SL'Étude (click for Flickr Photos)

SL'Étude is a series of pieces for SecondLife (SL) and a RealLife (RL) performance space capable of sound spatialization.
The RL and the SL space have a very similar layout - see diagram above.
SL is explored in a two directional fashion. It engages the avatars by allowing them to spatialize sounds in RL by positioning specifically designed objects in SL.

I recorded these sounds objects. They are solo saxophone snippets that explore the timbral possibilities of one sound (note) on the saxophone. The idea of this one note exploration was derived after talking to Joan La Barbara In March 08 at the Sonic Arts Research Center about her work entitled “One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation for voice alone” - cool piece, and she left me a copy of the score to have a look at.

What Happens?
For example, if an avatar picks up object 1 he/she will hear the one note exploration linked to that object. The avatar may then place the object closer to one of the loudspeakers in the SL space which will result in sound spatialization in the RL space. The saxophonist in the RL space will then interact with the avatars’ compositional strategies.

What Else?
The RL performer is equipped with LED lights in order to track her gestures while playing. In this way the performer’s movements can be mapped onto a SL avatar or a more abstract representation of a humanoid figure, thus enabling a two way interaction of movement and sounds.

How Far Is This?
We are in the process of setting up the SL space with the objects.
The installation has been up and running on the SARC SL space on the European University Island (http://slurl.com/secondlife/European%20University%20II/134/130/27)
since early May 2008.


First Performance?
The first performance tests were carried out at the beginning of June 2008.
The RL space was the Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC) in Belfast, UK.
Here is a short youtube overview of what we did.

Uff. Long Blog, this one.

Concert tonight - CCRMA Stanford

And tonight, Pedro Rebelo and myself are playing at CCRMA in Stanford. CCRMA Stage, 8pm.
Program: similar to last night at CNMAT in Berkeley, but I am also playing a network piece by Alain Renaud (who will be in the UK at SARC) and Juan-Pablo Cáceres (who will be at CCRMA) entitled "Drony Feeds Back" (yes, I know not the best title in this world!!!).

Pedro (piano and feedback) and I (sax) will be presenting a new feedback improvisation called "Over Hear".

Also, I will be playing an improvisation for solo sax that looks at the possible interruptions of the human body with the instrument and at the a-synchronicities of certain body parts (i.e. tongue and fingers are not synchronized or the breath tries to interfere with the air column of the instrument). I have called this "Étude".

Link to some Flickr Fotos.

Concert tonight - CNMAT California

Tonight, I am playing at CNMAT, Berkeley California. Pedro Rebelo and myself are doing a SARC showcase concert and I will be playing "Fragmentos" for soprano sax and electronics by Pedro Rebelo. This is a US premiere.
In the second half, we will be doing an improv and will be joined by David Wessel and Michael Zbyszynski.
Amongst the pieces played will be a new work by Pedro Rebelo, entitled "Netrooms: The Long Feedback".