Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Good stuff
A few artists whose work I enjoy greatly:
1: Ray Sweeten
Creating custom waveforms that cause an oscilliscope to display wonderful intricate designs, among other things.
2. Robert Henke, aka Monolake
One of the brains behind the creation of Ableton Live, he also creates interactive audio sculpture that takes a very intricate, layered microcontrolled approach. His work is complicated and a little obtuse, but impressive in its scope.
3. Jeremy Boyle
I first saw this playing hand-built electronic audio devices for the band Joan Of Arc, and since then this guy has really impressed me with his investigations and experiments involving audio, sculpture, and video. Every time I get around to checking his page, he's got a few excellent new projects up. Apparently he just built a MIDI-controlled pneumatic drum/guitar duet (which plays a very nice post-rock melody), but his past projects are all excellent.
4. Benoit Maubrey
This guy is somewhat of an enigma, albeit a fascinating one. I like his performance-based approach, and the designs are nice and lo-fi. The idea of bringing movement-based audio sampling/synthesis into public parks and such is pretty fun. I also like his "Audio Peacocks" moveable directed sound piece. Not much output for such a long career though, and readers of Music Thing say his works are much less impressive in person, but I enjoy his ideas for what the make my brain think about.
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1: Ray Sweeten
Creating custom waveforms that cause an oscilliscope to display wonderful intricate designs, among other things.
2. Robert Henke, aka Monolake
One of the brains behind the creation of Ableton Live, he also creates interactive audio sculpture that takes a very intricate, layered microcontrolled approach. His work is complicated and a little obtuse, but impressive in its scope.
3. Jeremy Boyle
I first saw this playing hand-built electronic audio devices for the band Joan Of Arc, and since then this guy has really impressed me with his investigations and experiments involving audio, sculpture, and video. Every time I get around to checking his page, he's got a few excellent new projects up. Apparently he just built a MIDI-controlled pneumatic drum/guitar duet (which plays a very nice post-rock melody), but his past projects are all excellent.
4. Benoit Maubrey
This guy is somewhat of an enigma, albeit a fascinating one. I like his performance-based approach, and the designs are nice and lo-fi. The idea of bringing movement-based audio sampling/synthesis into public parks and such is pretty fun. I also like his "Audio Peacocks" moveable directed sound piece. Not much output for such a long career though, and readers of Music Thing say his works are much less impressive in person, but I enjoy his ideas for what the make my brain think about.
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