Michael Una
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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Thursday, August 9, 2007
Work in progress
Here's a little flash animation I worked up for a show proposal illustrating my next audio/sculptural piece:
(click, then click icon again to launch. Sorry.)
It's an 8-channel sound piece that triggers light/motion in the "arms" of an octopus-like structure. as proposed, the main body will hang from the ceiling, with each of the arms coming to rest on the floor.
The whole project is unbuilt as of this moment, but I'm testing out materials and should begin construction soon.
*edit: Joe Moccia sez: "the creation of an octophonopod has seemed to me like the obvious next step in your artwork for a long time."
*edit: My project will be nothing like this audio/octopus-based project:
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(click, then click icon again to launch. Sorry.)
It's an 8-channel sound piece that triggers light/motion in the "arms" of an octopus-like structure. as proposed, the main body will hang from the ceiling, with each of the arms coming to rest on the floor.
The whole project is unbuilt as of this moment, but I'm testing out materials and should begin construction soon.
*edit: Joe Moccia sez: "the creation of an octophonopod has seemed to me like the obvious next step in your artwork for a long time."
*edit: My project will be nothing like this audio/octopus-based project:
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
The $10 Ableton Footcontroller
I published an article on Createdigitalmusic.com last week detailing how to build a footcontroller for use with programs like Ableton Live out of commonly found materials, for about $10.
You can read the article here.
You can see my demonstrative video there, but I'm going to post it here as well because I like it:
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You can read the article here.
You can see my demonstrative video there, but I'm going to post it here as well because I like it:
¶ 9:09 AM 1 Comments
Shiku Garu
Saturday, July 21st was the 2nd installment of the Shiku Garu music/art party series, curated by James Beckman. Myself and most of the other members of Deadline Projects created some artworks for the show, all of which had to be smaller than 12"x12"12".
My piece, titled "Small on the outside, infinite on the inside" was crafted from an old Brownie Camera box. Some photos:
If you were to look inside the box, you would see/hear something a lot like this:
Brownie Box Mandala from Michael Una and Vimeo. ¶ 7:58 AM 0 Comments
My piece, titled "Small on the outside, infinite on the inside" was crafted from an old Brownie Camera box. Some photos:
If you were to look inside the box, you would see/hear something a lot like this:
Brownie Box Mandala from Michael Una and Vimeo. ¶ 7:58 AM 0 Comments
