Quartz Composer Madness and Bamboo Flute
In our research time on Mapping Me, after getting all the component software working - Desktop Soundbeam, Ableton Live, MaxMSP, Quartz Composer, Reason - we started to play. This Quartz patch pictured on the left interacts with one soundbeam and live video feed. As you move down the beam particles of translucent green and red squares are emitted. The closer →
Recurring
This morning I'm content, as I have started the beginning of the end of my sound work on a sci- fi horror feature Recurring. I was handed the film just under two years ago. A lot of tidying, rerecording of dialogues, adding foley as a lot of it had to be removed. When the film was shot there was heavy →
Mapping Me
Starting new project working under Heather Wastie - soundbeam artist and poet - with multimedia installation artist Geoff Broadway. For those of you who may not know, Soundbeam is an ultrasonic device that measures distance continuously and translates this into MIDI. So you can play a piano by waving your arms seemingly pointlessly in the air and much much more. The →
A Different Landscape of Reactions
Time to unburden the thoughts that have been keeping me from my sleep, forcing me to leave the warm cocoon of the duvet and pace about the living room for the last few hours. Several sources of thoughts have collided and sparked a furious debate within myself; reviews written in UK newspapers about Lemn Sissay's one man show at the Hammersmith →