The Box in context

Audio Sample: http://fielderblank.tumblr.com/post/120700564/5-string-banjo-piezo-contact-mic-small-adhesive/

During my time at STEIM, my intentions changed from a single, large building project to a broader artistic and conceptual development.  My original submission proposed the construction of an all-analog device I was calling The Feedbacker, This device would require me to reverse-engineer several pieces of gear I own (along with a few I would acquire) – namely a compression pedal and an EQ pedal – to accept crackle and other intuitive interfaces, and combine them with microphones and a flexible array of small speakers to create polyphonic feedback. (more…)

Emotion Light, work in progress, (c) Adinda van 't Klooster, 2009

Project team:

Artist: Adinda van ‘t Klooster (concept, sculptural design, porcelain model, electro acoustic composition and project management)

Hardware design and advice: Ben Knapp, Ken Brown, Marc Boon, Bob Young, Belvin Ho

Software: Vincent Akkermans, Ken Brown, Miguel Angel Ortiz-Perez & Nick Ward

Rapid Prototyping: advice: Alan Stafford, AMAP, University of Sunderland

3d modelling: Neil Milburn, Iain Barrett, Dave Knapton, AMAP, University of Sunderland

The residency at STEIM was made possible by a small grant for the arts from the Arts Council England.

STEIM RESIDENCY 7-22 April 2009

Adinda van ‘t Klooster is an international artist and currently an AHRC funded PhD researcher at CRUMB, Sunderland University. She creates responsive artworks using sensors, light and sound. Her contextual research focuses on artworks which use biofeedback in particular.http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=8405

The aim of the residency at STEIM was to further develop the first prototype ‘Emotion Light’: a sculptural light which uses biofeedback technology to visualize the holder’s physiological state in changing light patterns emerging from a portable, wireless sculpture. (more…)

This residency period was part of my ongoing development of the buchla lightning/Nintendo wii-motes as a complete infra-red midi controller instrument for performance use with JunXion and Lisa and also external samplers and synthesizers. By “complete” I mean retiring the faderfox midi controller I was also using and basically never having to touch or look at the computer during a performance – the idea is that it is under a table and not even visible.

The Nintendo wii-motes have been a great addition to my infra red set up because they have a lot of fairly high quality switches, which the lightning crucially lacks, and additional accelerometers which are more accessible to programming than those on the lightning, which are pre-associated with velocity.

Unfortunately the X and Y position tracking of the infrared camera in the Wiimote is not currently correctly recognised by JunXion so the original idea of completely replacing the functionality of lightning with the Wiimote and JunXion could not be accomplished on this visit.

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