EMI Project

Artist name: David Cuartielles (ES) Koray Tahiroglu (TR) Enrique Tomas (ES) Category: Audiovisual performance URL: http://mlab.uiah.fi/~korayt/emipro.html http://mlab.uiah.fi/~korayt/emi/emiproj.mov Bio: David Cuartielles (ES) David Cuartielles, 1974, Zaragoza, Spain. After finishing his MSc. in Telecommunications Engineering, dedicated a couple of years to work first as project manager and as development engineer at Infineon Semiconductors (Munich, Germany), later. The realization of “The Wake Interactive” in the summer 2000, a net.art project consisting of a web version to “Finnegans’ Wake” - the classic by James Joyce- brought him to K3, the School of Arts and Communication located in Malm�, Sweden. There he became the head of the Mechatronics Laboratory, renamed to OneScaleOne Studio recently. Since August 2002 he also became a PhD Student and researcher dealing with the boundaries between Interaction Design and Art. His academic work focuses in analyzing embodiment, indoor location systems, and technologies for real time performances. His artistic work, mainly low-Fi interventions parodying his own field of research, brought him to the 8th Istanbul International Biennale in 2003, and to the 3rd Berlin Biennale during 2004. David is the founder of several initiatives: the Critical Design group “Aeswad” - active since 2002, the Labbs.net community - online since the summer 2002, the Digital Arts Collective “Desearch and Revelopment” - active since August 2003, the Experiments in Art and Technology SWEden/DENmark group - active since September 2003, and the media server Goldiaq - online since December 2004. Through these groups he got to organize workshops together with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation - Germany, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea - Italy, Istanbul Technical University - Turkey, Zaragoza University - Spain, Aarhus University - Denmark, and Chalmers University - Sweden. During 2005 David, together with Massimo Banzi created the Open Hardware platform Arduino, for which they have been nominated to the Community Prize of Ars Electrnica 2006. Koray Tahiroglu (TR) He is a sound artist, performer, researcher and a lecturer who grew up in Istanbul. At the moment, he is a doctoral student and he is doing a research on modeling human observable musical activity at Media Lab UIAH. He is experimenting on creating interactive systems that give a possibility for the audience to participate in an act of musical improvisation with experimental musical instruments. He has been performing noise and electronic music with these interactive systems at various sound art events. Since 2004, he has been also teaching courses and organizing workshops at University of Art and Design Helsinki and Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland. These courses are aimed to give opportunity to anyone who knows and likes electronic music of any genre to learn how to make electronic music by using Pure Data open source environment, a graphical programming language for real-time audio and video processing. Koray Tahiroglu performed at, Art's Birthday 2004 - 2005 and Aureobel Launch Event in Helsinki/Finland, Ctrl_Alt_Del Sound Art Festival 2005 the 9th Istanbul Biennial in Istanbul/Turkey, Piksel05 Festival in Bergen/Norway, NoiseCity 2006 in Helsinki/Finland. He is invited to perform with SolarDuo Project in September at Ars Electronica 2006. More info at http://mlab.uiah.fi/~korayt/ Enrique Tomas (ES) Enrique Tomas is telecommunications engineer (Universidad Politىcnica de Madrid 2004), where he currently is a researcher in the field of Signal Processing. From 2003 to 2004 he participates in research projects with the National Research Council (CSIC) on real time voice processing, completing a paper on “Automatic recognition of musical modes in a singing voice”. He is currently working on his engineering PhD and completing a Musical Composition degree at the Real Conservatorio Superior de M�sica in Madrid. He is responsible of the acoustic production of "Algorithmic Echolocation" installation in Ars Electronica Festival and SONAR05 Festival Barcelona. Actually he works at MediaLabMadrid as technical assistant. Statement: During the last years there has been a development of several open source software platforms that allow the creation of multimedia performative experiences. These new tools have been embraced by multitude of users, what has help further development through distributed debug processes. EMI project gives a possibility to non-professional musicians to experience a musical activity where the pleasure is achieved by being able to play around with the reliable instrument, exploring and experimenting on different sound structures. With the characteristics of the instruments such as easy to use, easy to control, EMI project instruments can easily bring performers with no training or formal education in music, together to experience ever-changing music in a collective improvisation process. In a collective musical improvisation pleasure is maximized in higher scale. In the process of developing instruments, EMI project integrates Arduino and PureData to map physical interaction within a digital environment. Performer's physical gesture creates the first attempt to interact with the musical instrument. Digital response to a physical gesture creates the interaction between performer and the instrument. Immediate answers make it possible for performers to have a control on their instruments. In this sense, gesture and feedback are in continues relation. Whenever there is a gesture, there is a feedback. This also makes it interesting for the performer to explore the instrument further more. EMI project performance is a real-time improvisation process with experimental musical instruments. Improvisation takes place in a moment of time where physical gestures create the interaction between the performers and the instruments to achieve a changing set of sonic relationships overtime. Software Pure Data Arduino Program