DYN-AMO ARTEFACTS by THE SCIE PROTOCOL (UK) aka Jenny Pickett & Julien Ottavi
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http://www.a10lab.info/scieprotocol
This project arrives from a mutual interest in the deconstruction and dissemination of infomation recieved through the eye and/or ear. The performance is based on a discussion between an automated video score responding to a performer, who in turn responds to the video. Using Pure Data programmation, the performer triggers the composition of the images and deconstructs their narrative content according to the performers relationship to these images. We are interested in how we can produce dynamic scores that will change the habits of the performer, as the performer changes the shape of the score recieved by him/her and the audience. Following from the ideas produces by the Scratch Orchestra in the 70's, whereby graphic scores evolved in order to create new understandings of the relationships between sound producing music, we are researching how to carry these concepts one step further with this audio visual conversations between performer and his/her visual score.
The sound produced by the performer will have a direct affect upon the screen images, through the images form, colour, intensity, direction and speed. These images will direct the performer to change pitch, duration, brightness, loudness, etc... according to a predefined protocol of interpretation - the video thus, directly affecting the performance. This experimental process is one that we would in future want to extend to a broader group of musicians as a ensemble or orchestra and other automate systems.
Software:
jackd, puredata, pdp, pidip, gem, jack-rack, freqtweak, cinelerra, kdenlive, kino...etc
BIO:
JENNY PICKETT is a mixed-media artist, curator and Co-Director of A10lab in London, which she launched with () RE | BOOT; in early 2008. Her current work deals with temporal states of flux with regard to perception and experience, addressing audience and performer interactions using automated machinic relationships that model interchangeable/variable feedback systems. Pickett is actively involved in collaborative projects of a cross disciplinary nature, which include; an ongoing creative-polymers research with Dr Saad Ibrahim, University of East Anglia; [ECP]?? The Exquisite Corpse Program - experiments in tactical media, hacking and consummate desire, tracking the evolution and mobility of open source artifacts in both virtual and real space; The Scie Protocol - defining new languages in composition with DYN-AMO ARTEFACTS
JULIEN OTTAVI
A mediactivist, artist-researcher, musician, experimental film maker and anarchitect, an active member of apo33, Julien Ottavi is involved in research and creative work, combining sound art, real-time video, new technologies and construction of electronic devices. An activist in the free software movement, he participated in the production of Apodio free multimedia software. He is actually co-director of the Area10Medialab in London and participates in, and produces, numerous events such as conventions of researchers, artists and activists, sound art or multimedia festivals, workshops on free software and DIY electronics, etc. Julien Ottavi is part of a generation of audio artists to emerge in the 90\`s that indicated some of the directions that music and soundart is taking. He develop his approaches in the group Formanex to perform graphical scores of electro-acoustic music, and in Apo33, an artists collective to facilitate, nurture, and disseminate creative audio practice. In this way, Julien represents the energy and initiative of a present day artist – activist through practice, organizing as performance, publishing as networking, open source and open aesthetic. This fluidity of working across boundaries of style and role are seen in his music, physical with computer, performative and reflective.