Here is a collaborative piece I made with Alex Vittum, comprised of recordings of Alex’s gongs and cymbals - some of which were processed with my modular synth - and edited in Pro Tools.
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Polystate 1 is an interactive installation I developed for the “Interface” show at the California College of the Arts in December of 2008. The piece addresses ideas of balance, fragility, harmony, simultaneous states of being and the individual’s relationship to structures of power. The user interface consists of three apothecary balance scales and small weights presented so that the visitor is invited to play with the position of the scales, shifting them in and out of balance by transferring the weights with tweezers. Sensor data reporting the positions of scales are mapped to different audio and video processes in Max/MSP and Jitter.
At the core of the Max patch is a bank of sine wave oscillators. The frequencies of three of the oscillators are programmed to glissando between pairs of closely tuned intervals in response to the scale positions, creating complex beating patterns and the sense of never quite sounding “in tune.” Additional audio processes include Chebyshev distortion, amplitude modulation, and a bank of 96 resonant filters tuned to just intonation scales. The sound and projected image is constantly shifting in relation to the movement of the scales, creating an immersive audio-visual environment that can be “played” or “tuned” via a simple interface.
The projected video is processed in such a way as to appear quite abstract most of the time, yet certain combinations of scale positions provide brief glimpses of recognizable imagery: a reflection of a stained glass window on the water in a stone fountain, a young woman being repeatedly tear-gassed and assaulted by police. At times these events happen simultaneously, while at other times the image is reduced to a murky blur.
The piece was developed over the course of the 2008 Fall semester with technical and aesthetic guidance from Barney Haynes, Don Day, North Pitney, Chris Brown and Les Stuck. I plan to install Polystate 1 during the Signal Flow festival March 12-15 at Mills College in Oakland.
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Simultaneous Worldwide Event in Support of Gaza
Oakland, California (usa)
http://giss.tv/wiki/index.php/20th_of_January_:_They%27ve_got_a_bomb
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Monday, Jan 19th, 2009 | 8PM | $10-and up donation
no one turned away for lack of funds
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Porest -debut of porest group
Liz Allbee -solo
Johnson, Phillips & Glenn -trio in concert
Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies) DJ setting
-spinning uncommon musics from the Middle East
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LIVE at the Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut
671 24th Street, Apt B, Oakland, CA 94612 www.myspace.com/totallyintense
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www.porest.com | myspace.com/myspaceporest
lizallbee.net
This is part of “They’ve got a Bomb”, a coordinated simultaneous concert/event taking place in several cities around the world : Beirut, Paris, Lisbon, Chicago, Lund, Gävle, Barcelona, Stockholm, Nazareth, Valparaiso (Chile), Chicago, Oakland and Los Angeles.
This is a benefit for the people of Gaza, Palestine –currently under brutal siege by Israel.
All money will be donated to Gaza via the Red Cross.
Here’s the brief story about how and why this is happening.
Dirar Kalash is a young Palestinian musician and artist living in Haifa.
He operates autonomously and is pretty much the only Palestinian guy doing music of this variety over there. Porest met Dirar Kalash through the internet a while back. He is mutual friends with Lebanese musicians and Porest / Liz Allbee
cohorts Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin and Sharif Sehnoui.
Dirar and Sharif contacted Porest last week about their idea to hold this worldwide event on Jan 20. We know that our music won’t really rake in the bucks, but ultimately, this is also a symbolic event.
Upon searching for a venue to host the event on such short notice, (many thanks to Ben Bracken for helping make this happen at the Mindgaze Hut) we discovered that holding it on Jan 20th would be problematic, as there is much musical competition in the Bay Area that night- and also much anticipated revelry as many Americans celebrate their new president.
In the end, it made more sense to host it on the 19th. After all, it will be January 20th
in Palestine while the event is in progress.
‘They’ve Got A Bomb’ is an occasion for showing our support to victims of massive and blind bombing on Gaza, and also against the experimentation of new american weapons over disarmed populations. The new nickname of the bomb is DIME : [DIME] ( see the following site for info): http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5648
For information regarding the Gaza situation, please visit
livestation.com (download their player and watch Al Jazeera English or Press TV for decent news)
and
http://electronicintifada.net/
A great article by Robert Fisk on the current crisis is here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html
also
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604775898578139565
to watch the film: “Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the
Israel-Palestine Conflict”
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Keith Rowe is this year’s David Tudor Composer-in-Residence at Mills College and he is collaborating with a student ensemble (including yours truly) in presenting Cornelius Cardew’s piece The Tiger’s Mind. The concert is this Sunday at 8PM - Lisser Hall on Mills campus.
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