This is a sketch built in Processing that takes an audio input and uses the amplitude as a variable to define the position, size, and color of generative squares is realtime. Now we’re getting somewhere.
Recipe for Squares from Michael Una on Vimeo.
After my performance at the MCA in January, I was interviewed by a journalism student from Northwestern who works for the Indy Gazette. She and her cohort took some photos and combined that with the audio to create a nice audio slideshow of some of the instruments I used for the show:
Thanks guys!
Interactive designer/artist Grant Bussinger took some cameraphone footage of my set last night:
If you watch to the end, you’ll see me kick the power cord for the whole table and temporarily knock out the audio.
Thanks to everyone who came out to my talk and performance at Transistor last week. Here’s a little bit of video from that show:
Thanks to Steven Buck for the video!
Dr. Rek has finished assembling his documentary masterpiece and hot damn! It looks pretty.
A little preview is available online, including the section containing my interview and performance with Memory Selector:
Memory Selector – Bent 2008 mpls from Derek Sajbel on Vimeo.
I highly recommend ordering the DVD for anyone who’s interested in circuit bending- the interviews coupled [...]
Man, what a fun time that was. Big thanks to Patrick of Roth Mobot for putting it all together. And my new handmade sequencer synth worked!
Live set at MEECAS 09, handmade synth from Michael Una on Vimeo.
Live set at MEECAS 09, handmade synth part 2 from Michael Una on Vimeo.
Live set at MEECAS 09, handmade [...]
Shot and uploaded by the inimitable Chad Mageira.
Hey everyone. Next Wednesday, April 30th I’ll I’ll be performing a live looping audio set as part of the Butterfly Social Club’s Re:Vivify Wednesday series. There will be live video, artmaking, bodywork, fortunetelling, and probably a whole lot of hip urban hippies.
9pm, 722 W. Grand, next to the Funky Buddha Lounge.
Be there or be [...]
In preparation for my upcoming workshop at BENT Fest Minneapolis, I’ve been assembling and implementing the HighlyLiquid MSA-R MIDI decoder kit.
A preview of the results:
Robot drummer from Michael Una on Vimeo.
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