Butch Rovan is a composer and performer on the faculty of the Department of Music at Brown University, where he co-directs MEME (Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments @ Brown) and the Ph.D. program in Computer Music and Multimedia. His lecture will be in three parts: first he will talk about the MEME program, how it is structured, and how you could apply. Secondly Butch will discuss his use of "obstinate" systems for interactive performance, and their particular application in several of his performance and instrument building projects (seine hohle Form, Vis-à-vis, COLLIDE, MiMICS).
The Digital Poplar Consort is a family of wireless hand-made sensor based musical instruments. Each instrument provides a different interface to a gesture based system for electronic sound processing and synthesis. This project explores the ways in which musicians approach the physical interface of the instrument with their bodies when attempting to produce musical sound. Thus, each of the instruments is unique, but sound-generating software remains the same.
Butch Rovan is a composer and performer on the faculty of the Department of Music at Brown University, where he co-directs MEME (Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments @ Brown) and the Ph.D. program in Computer Music and Multimedia.
Rovan's research includes new sensor hardware design and wireless microcontroller systems. His research into gestural control and interactivity has been featured in IRCAM's journal "Resonance", "Electronic Musician", the Computer Music Journal, the Japanese magazine "SoundArts," the CDROM "Trends in Gestural Control of Music" (IRCAM 2000), and will appear in the upcoming book "Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies," to be published 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Kevin Patton is a composer, scholar, and experimental sound performer whose work explores the intersection of music, technology, and the body.The design and performance of new musical interfaces and computer music systems for the analysis, composition, and performance of electronic, multimedia, and experimental music is at the center of his practice. He is currently an Invited Researcher at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France for the Spring of 2009. Kevin's music and ideas have been presented at the Electronic Music Studies (EMS) International conference in Paris, France and Beijing, China, and the Visiones Sonoras festival in Morelia, Mexico, among many.
Kevin often performs his own work in both instrumental improvisation and interactive chamber music and has performed in Europe, Japan, and throughout North America.
Maria del Carmen Montoya is a new media artist that works in sculpture, performance and video. Her work explores the personal, emotional and utterly irrational tendencies of technology. Most recently Carmen received the 2009 Rhizome Commission for New Media Art, with composer Kevin Patton, for I Sky You?an installation using chemically synthesized light and computerized sound. It is inspired by the phrase Frida Kahlo used to describe infinite love: I Sky You.