[spectre] Turbulence Commissions: "WWW-Enabled Noise Toy" and "Moments of Inertia"

[Turbulence]

June 7, 2010

Turbulence is pleased to announce two new commissions: "WWW-Enabled  
Noise Toy" by Loud Objects and "Moments of Inertia" by R. Luke  
DuBois, with Todd Reynolds.

"WWW-Enabled Noise Toy" by Loud Objects

http://turbulence.org/works/noisetoy

Loud Objects, NYC-based circuit sorcerers, present a wacky way to  
learn hardware audio programming. The "WWW-Enabled Noise Toy" invites  
anyone with a web browser to write their own audio code, program it  
remotely onto a Noise Toy, and play it live via webcam. In the spirit  
of "try it yourself" software demos, the website provides a simple  
environment for experimenting with low-level microchip-generated  
audio. Load code from Loud Objects' own library of performance  
algorithms, hone your own noise techniques, and add your work to the  
online archive to share it with other microchip coders and create an  
open source noise community.

BIOGRAPHY

  Graduates of Columbia University, Kunal Gupta, Tristan Perich and  
Katie Shima have been performing as Loud Objects since 2005. Their  
performances, focused on sound from programmed microchips, have  
ranged from live circuit constructions on overhead projectors and  
slide projectors, to soldering atop a 24-light bulb fluorescent  
podium, and later with modified fluorescent light guitars. Loud  
Objects has performed in the USA and internationally at numerous  
festivals on four continents, including Sonar (Spain), Transitio_MX  
(Mexico), Piksel (Norway), Evolution (UK), Bent Festival and Blip  
Festival (NYC), Electric Eclectics (Canada), Screen Music 2 (Italy),  
Art and Music with the Overhead Projector (Germany), Festival of  
Endless Gratitude (Denmark), NIME (Brooklyn). Their varied  
performances range from solo acts to shifting duets with vocalists,  
drummers, susophonists, tuba quintets, laptop musicians, singers,  
painting machines, manatees, and recently as movie soundtracks.

"Moments of Inertia" by R. Luke DuBois, with Todd Reynolds

http://turbulence.org/works/inertia

"Moments of Inertia" is an evening-length performance based on a  
teleological study of gesture in musical performance and how it  
relates to gesture in intimate social interaction. The work is  
written for solo violin with real-time computer accompaniment and  
video. "Moments" consists of twelve violin études -- ranging from 3-5  
minutes in length -- each of which uses a different violin  
performance gesture as a control input for manipulating a short piece  
of high-speed film (300 frames-per-second) -- of a person performing  
a social gesture. Taking its cue from principles in physics that  
determine an object's resistance to change, the violinist's gestures  
time-remap and scrub the video clip to explore the intricacies of the  
performed action.

BIOGRAPHY
R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the  
temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal  
ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia  
University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive  
sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive  
performance, installation, and music production work with many  
artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd  
Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang  
on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of  
the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season. Exhibitions of  
his work include: the Insitut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain; 2008  
Democratic National Convention, Denver; Weisman Art Museum,  
Minneapolis; San Jose Museum of Art; National Constitution Center,  
Philadelphia; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Daelim  
Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; 2007 Sundance Film Festival; and the  
Sydney Film Festival. An active visual and musical collaborator,  
DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time  
manipulation of matrix data.

"Moments of Inertia" is a commission of New Radio and Performing  
Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence.org website. It was commissioned  
through Meet the Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program, which is  
made possible by the generous support of the Mary Flagler Cary  
Charitable Trust, the Ford Foundation, the Francis Goelet Charitable  
Lead Trusts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York  
State Council on the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,  
and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund.


Jo-Anne Green
Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
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