Pictures from Bare Wires
March 16, 2009
[slideshow] (Pics by Tamara Polajnar)
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Bare Wires in the Skinny
March 13, 2009
Nice piece on ‘Bare Wires’ by Clare Sinclair in the Skinny; ‘The lines between technology and the arts are blurring at an astronomical pace: the latest laptops and computers position themselves not only as tools for business, but as home entertainment centres where anything seems possible. J. Simon van der Walt, performing as part of the Cryptic Nights season, parallels this revolution yet takes it back to the ‘Bare Wires’. As Edward ‘Teddy’ Edwards and the Electr-O-Chromatic orchestra, he presents and electronic symphony of music and performance. ...
cynthcart
February 22, 2009
Got hold of a loan of a very cool instrument to use in the show; Yup, it’s a cynthcart, a Commodore 64 hacked up to play as a synth! Tried it out in rehearsal today, works great. (Thanks to Col for the loan.)
Plan for the show, version 01
February 21, 2009
Plan for the show, version 02
February 21, 2009
Well, that worked out easily enough. If the longer numbers are in the region of five mins, I reckon I can just about bring that in at 45 mins. Also working on a list of instruments, looks like twenty-two different bits of gear, including laptops, effects units and conventional instruments.
Slipping Away
February 20, 2009
Driving work the other morning, I wrote this waltz in my head; It’s called ‘Slipping Away’ because, as you might have noticed, each time it repeats it accidentally slides down a semitone; like the last slush of winter on a window pane, or someone slowly, gently, dying… I think I’ll use it in the show on March 5th. Which now, finally has a fourth player! And, I got a loan the other day of an *extremely* cool instrument to use in the show, more details to follow. ...
Ted Edwards classic
December 22, 2008
I’ve finally managed to persuade Ted to let me post some of the amazing back catalog he’s built up over the years. Below is a piece called ‘slacion’ which he did ‘sometime in the late 70s’, using an adapted version of the PE Minisonic synth plus tape loops plus a spring reverb. The video is also by Ted, a recent digital remix of ‘some old Betamax that’s up in the loft’. ...
Loudcoding?
December 16, 2008
Managing to do the same kind of thing now in SuperCollider, speaking one word at a time, which kind of makes more sense in this context; loudcoding? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG8hMLAXs_U&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] (Amazed at getting this to work, actually. I’m *so* not a programmer!)
More text to screech
December 4, 2008
Updated version of the Bare Wires text interface; [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi9olQyxfzE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0]
Bare Wires – text to screech
November 29, 2008
Hers is a very early and approximate proof-of-concept video of a possible text-to-screech interface for ‘Bare Wires’; [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npii4-3awcQ&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] The idea is to have a laptop and screen onstage, visible to the audience. The setup is used by various performers during the piece, in various ways; to address the audience, or to direct an improvisation, ask questions, tell a story… anything, really. ’text-to-screech’ is my coining for taking familiar text-to-speak technology built into many modern computers, and mangle it, creatively misuse it. ...