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Small Black Box
SonicViz Brisbane Performance 29 Feb 2004

This demonstration/performance explores the concept of audio-visual instruments through a number of experimental avenues:
  1. Computer generated music based on data sonification with real-time 2D and 3D machinima style visualisation.
    • DotCon - Sonified major index stock market data from Sept 1999 to Sept 2001 with machinima "Videoclip" of the TechWreck2000. Visuals are driven by musical events and notes from the Koan generative music engine.
    • Spam - Multi layered porn spam text to speech overload with dynamic visuals as a statement on...banal spam?
  2. MooZk - Real-time software instrument driven by a penpad gestural interface
  3. Digital Primitives: a computer game as instrument - flightsim as 3D ambient music explorer through a mystic landscape populated by petroglyph soundobjects.
    Two modes of play:
    • Joystick for free flight soundscape composition
    • AI controlled roaming camera soundscape and soundinput responsive visuals for jamming
  4. Extending traditional instruments (Shakuhachi, Harmonica, Slide Guitar and Ebow) and genre into the audio-visual domain through digital effects and 2D winamp visualisations via Milkdrop.

Keywords/concepts for this performance: tradition, interface, energy, interaction, machinima, instrument, game, Code (programming and semiotics), sound, vision.

 
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