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Wow. No wonder my backback has been getting heavier! This does not include a digital camera and laptops!
In my bag
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Bored waiting for the oven to heat up.
This is what’s in my bag when it’s mostly empty.
PhotonQ-Atau Tanaka Playing Guitar Beatbox Smartphone Gig
Image by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE
Atau Tanaka bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, has been researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and was an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. www.ataut.net/site/
Presenting his Sensor performance Adam & Atau – 4 Hands iPhone.
Adam & Atau exploit a commonly available consumer electronics device, the Apple iPhone, as an expressive, gestural musical instrument. The device is well known an iconic object of desire in our society of consumption. The iPhone can play music as a commodity, and this is the way most listeners interact with it. Adam & Atau reappropriate the iPhone and its advanced technical capabilities to transform the consumer object into an expressive musical instrument for concert performance. In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone. The accelerometers which typically serve as tilt sensors to rotate photos in fact allow high precision capture of the performer’s free space gestures. The multitouch screen, otherwise used for scrolling and pinch-zooming text, becomes a reconfigurable graphic user interface akin to the JazzMutant Lemur, with programmable faders, buttons, and 2D controllers that control synthesis parameters in real time. All this drives open source Pure Data (PD) patches running out of the free RJDJ iPhone app. A single advanced granular synthesis patch becomes the process by which a battery of sounds from the natural world are stretched, frozen, scattered, and restitched. The fact that all system components – sensor input, signal processing and sound synthesis, and audio output, are embodied in a single device make it very different than the typical controller + laptop model for digital music performance. The encapsulation in a self-contained, manipulable object take the iPhone beyond consumer icon to become a powerful, expressive musical instrument.
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You still need the manual for your bag??? You must have mastered the zip and the monthly removal of biscuit crumbs by now…
Great novel
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Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
geek.
Guilty as charged.
i loved "don’t cry for me aberystwyth". looking forward to reading some of the others in the series. i am impressed at your dedication in still carrying the bag manual around, just in case you find a new feature. i tend to bypass the manual with these things and then get stuck with how to use the inner pockets. my latest bag has multiple zips and didn’t even come with a manual! tsk!
Next in series ‘Under My Hat’ by Billy Abbott.
rogue peanut, hahaha…
yes you really should write up the circle line. so we can have more hits in the top 10 results on google.
I’m 13 stops in on my writeup and haven’t touched it since October. It’s loaded up and sitting accusingly at me in emacs now for finishing this evening. Kake just wandered off and Phil got lost on the way to the Old Dr Butler’s Head. Now to see if I can remember the rest of the interesting events (as my notes are rather scrawled from pub 20). I have a photo somewhere of Nick sexually assauting a lampost…
The rogue peanut came from a hole in a sandwich bag that I made while overenthusiastically opening the bag of sandwich bags with a large knife, but didn’t realise was there until I found lots of peanuts in my bag at lunchtime yesterday.
Hotshoe spirit level…. want want want!
Funny. I have that bag too. Amongst many, many others.