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Agents
Against Agency explores the power of emergent systems and human
group improvisation. Each piece on this DVD decenters human individualist
expression -- i.e. "agency" -- in an interesting way.
The collection opens artistic perception to phenomena of the emergence
and improvisation, exposing us to dynamic and spontaneous forms
of beauty, in dialog with nature.
Australian/Taiwanese
duo 12 Dog Cycle play with light and time in a resonant brickworks
factory in Melbourne, improvising as a trio of voice, accordion
with saxophonist Rosalind Hall. Russian sound artist Yuri Spitsyn
uses vibration sensors to amplify the inside of a laptop. He creates
a virtuosic performance of software and system manipulation. The
Emergence Collective and IMRG present the world's first piece for
symphonic-scale laptop orchestra, performed by the 250-person MICE
Orchestra. When electric performance and the outdoors meet, amazing
things can happen. The Pinko Communoids perform trio improvisations
outdoors in a field and stream of Maine. The MICE (Mobile Interactive
Computer Ensemble) perform "Sandprints," a composition
performed and filmed in the Namib Desert using the desert as a control
interface for the computers. Ted Coffey sets an ensemble of parabolic
speakers in a river in Virginia, sculpting sound with an interplay
of environment and his highly directional sound sources. EMMI's
robot ensemble performs algorithmic percussion music in the early
spring woods among the trees and leaves. Christopher Burns and David
Dinnell present "Before the Seiche", a work that drifts
like a computer fog of emergent digital feedback accompanied by
film of natural systems presented in stark grey and black. The DVD
also includes the premiere recording of Matthew Burtner's work,
"(dis)Locations", in which a disassembled saxophone, it's
parts scattered throughout the forest, is discovered and reconstructed.
(dis)Locations is performed by the virtuosic saxophonist
Mike Straus along with Burtner.
producer: Matthew Burtner
DVD authoring: Daniel Dorst
Brent Coughenour
graphic design : Trestle Mountain Studios and Design
robots,
music and video: EMMI: Troy Rogers, Steven Kemper, Scott Bartony videography and recording: Matthew Burtner MICE
(Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble): "Sandprints" MICE
performers:
Matthew Burtner, Keith Carlson, Steven Trombetta, Justin Thompson,
Brandon Van Loucks, Sarah Walton, Lia Albini, Rachel Shearer, Allison
Wist, Sarah Beauchamp composition/programming: Matthew Burtner videography: Sarah Walton producer: Ryan Willis Yuri
Spitsyn: "Welcome to the Machine"
performers:
MICE Orchestra
Director: Matthew Burtner software:
Interactive Media Research Group (IMRG): Steven Kemper, David Topper,
Matthew Burtner music:
Emergence Collective:Jonathan Zorn, Scott Barton, Yuri Spitzyn,
Lanier Sammons, Peter Traub and Matthew Burtner recording
and videography: David Eklund, Erik DeLuca, Megan England,
Steven Kemper, Jonathan Zorn, Matthew Burtner editing:
Matthew Burtner
MICE
World Tour CD:
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"Curious
and striking…could serve as a healing music, so relaxing,
soothing, yet elevated and artistically sounding a playful note.
It is inspired and exhilarating. The use of natural sounds is not
cliche and nothing is “dance/ambient", despite the computer
drones or percussion rhythms. The sounds push and push and swing
slowly and relax there. Folk and jazz weave themselves among the
sensitive natural soundscapes, and folklore yields to sounds, voices
and samples. Yet no music in the traditional sense can be heard
here. Rather, an impressive audio noise builds, one that casts its
spell and displaces any crisis, any stress. There is no kitsch harmony,
no release, and no commonplace chumming. MICE plays real, real music
for the mind and body."
- Volkmar Mantei, Ragazzi Magazine, Germany
“MICE
have played all around the world, using their laptops and a variety
of instruments and sound sources… sand sources even. Sandprints
has a nice, poppy touch to it… an electro-dance piece with
great childlike rhythms. Great. 'World Strings' processes all sorts
of string instruments together in a nice piece. Quite a varied album."
- FdW, Vital Weekly in Amsterdam, Netherlands
10/1/09: Sandprints
is #25 on the Indie Music.com Electronica Charts!
Thank
you to Susanna Glaser of The WIRE for listing the MICE World Tour
album among her top 10 albums of 2009 in the 2009
Rewind issue.
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EcoSono
presents the 2009 global circumnavigation tour of the Mobile Interactive
Computer Ensemble (MICE). Traveling 30,000 miles by ship around
the world on the M/V Explorer, MICE performed an ambitious series
of concerts engaging with diverse environments and cultures of the
world. MICE employs interactive acoustics and a networked human/computer
ensemble to create deep collaborations between ecologies, human
musicians and computer systems. This album features select compositions
from the tour.
[1]
Sandprints 7:03 2009
sand music in the Namib Desert, Namibia
[2] That which is bodiless... 10:52 2004
Cape Town, South Africa
[3] Anemoi 5:25 2009
wind music in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
[4] Sxueak 4:33 2008
Chennai, India
[5] World Strings 6:56 2009
Hong Kong, China
[6] Kanja 6:49 2009
underwater music in the middle of the Indian Ocean
[7] ‘A’aa 8:43 2009
lava flow music in Pacaya, Guatemala
[8-15] World Radio Quilt 9:48 2009
Cape Town, South Africa; Chennai, India; Shainghai, China;; Walvis
Baia, Namibia; Straights of Gibralter, UK/Spain; Casablanca, Morocco;
Dakar, Senegal; Cadiz, Spain
MICE
ensemble and special guests during the tour:
Matthew Burtner, Keith Carlson, Steven Trombetta, Justin Thompson,
Brandon Van Loucks, Sarah Walton, Lia Albini, Annie Grindstaff,
Zoe Kinney, Aniseh Burtner, Bob Balsley, Rachel Shearer, Courtney
Gushue, Allison Wist, Sarah Beauchamp, Lauren Seibert, Isaiah Allekotte,
Taylor Mack, Jonathan Katz, Chazz Anders
Assul Angulo
composition/programming: Matthew Burtner and Keith Carlson
production: Matthew Burtner, producer, director
Jordan Moser, engineer, producer
design : Trestle Mountain Studios and Design, New York
Signal
Ruins :
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Notes Journal Reviews "Signal Ruins" Terry
O'Mahoney of Percusssive Notes describes "Signal Ruins"
as "an experiment in the juxtaposition of unusual acoustic
sounds... the piece has a glacial pace and overall ethereal quality...,
as visually interesting as it is aural ... a valuable teaching tool
for a class on contemporary music or percussion ensemble.
-Sonhors
e-Zine, Rennes, France, April 2009 " Matthew Burtner plays with beauty, coolness and
space. Halfway between chamber music and sound sculpture! Dialogues,
modulations, swirl, noise, dissonance, metallic roar, crackle: nothing
can break the expressive unity."
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Signal
Ruins DVD trailer
A
performed ritual of instrumental bodies and electro-acoustics, Matthew
Burtner's Signal Ruins merges sonic sculpture and chamber
music performance. In Signal Ruins the bodies of instruments
become resonant landscapes. Recorded live in multichannel audio
and video, the film was exquisitely edited by film maker Dustin
Thompson in close collaboration with the composer. The Burtner/Kojs
trio, featuring the virtuosic piano performance of Juraj Kojs, gives
a profound performance of this rare music. The disk also includes
Burtner's award-winning sound art works That which is bodiless
is reflected in bodies for computer-generated surround sound
and Tibetan Bowl, and Prismic Generations, for video and
computer-generated sound.
Signal
Ruins for prepared piano and percussion, noise generators, and computer
-generated sound in two movements, four chapters:
Signal Ruins I, part 1 and 2
Signal Ruins II, part 1 and 2 51' total duration
That
which is bodiless is reflected in bodies. version
for 5.1 surround sound 12'
Prismic
Generations version for computer generated sound and video 10'
performers:
Juraj Kojs, piano
W. Aniseh Khan-Burtner, percussion/noise generator
Matthew Burtner, percussion/noise generator
composition:
Matthew Burtner
production: Matthew Burtner, engineer, producer, director
Dustin Thompson, videography, video editing
Matthew
Burtner's ( http://www.burtner.net)
experience growing up in Alaska deeply informs his work as a composer
and sound artist. Through projects such as EcoSono he attempts to
unite his activism on behalf of the environment and free imagination.
Composed
for a wide range of instruments and technologies, his music combines
ecoacoustic systems with expressive live performance and immersive
ritual sound art. He performs widely with his original Metasax technology
(http://www.metasax.com).
Burtner’s music has been described by Andy Hamilton of The Wire
as “some of the most eerily effective electroacoustic music
I’ve heard,” and Crystal Elizabeth of 21st Century Music
writes "There is a horror and beauty in this music that is most
impressive." He is a professor of composition and computer technologies
at the University of Virginia where he directs the Interactive Media
Research Group (IMRG). In 2005 and 2006 he was an Invited Researcher
at IRCAM/Centre-George-Pompidou, Paris, and composer-in-residence
at Musikene, in San Sebastian, Spain. Since 2007 he received a Teaching+Technolgy
Fellowship at UVA, a Howard Foundation Fellowship from Brown University
and a grant from the W. Buckner Clay Foundation to develop NOMADS
(Network-Operational Mobile Applied Digital System). In 2010/2011
he is the Provost Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies at
the University of Wisconsin.
Ted
Coffey
Ted
Coffey makes acoustic and electronic chamber music, multimedia pieces,
interactive installations and songs. His work has been presented
in concerts and festivals across the US and Canada, Europe and Asia.
Coffey’s writing on the aesthetics and social politics of
transmissive networks in art have been honored with significant
awards from the Josephine De Kármán and Andrew C.
Mellon Foundations. He studied composition with Jon Appleton, Christian
Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Lansky and others, earning degrees
at Dartmouth [AB], Mills College [MFA] and Princeton [MFA, PhD].
He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia,
where he teaches courses in composition, music technologies, critical
theory and pop. For more information regarding his work, please
visit www.tedcoffey.com.
Mobile
Interactive Computer Ensemble (MICE)
The
word "mouse" derives from "muse". The mouse
is the friend of writers, artists and musicians, the little voice
serving as a source of inspiration. The MICE (Mobile Interactive
Computer Ensemble) turn musing into a collective interaction by
composing, programming and performing mobile multi-performer human-computer
music. MICE (Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble) began experimenting
with artificial intelligence and multi-performer systems in 2001.
Director, Matthew Burtner created the group to explore a genre of
multi-performer interactive music systems with a precedent in the
work of Stockhausen (Germany, 1960s), The Hub (California, 1980s),
and Sensorband (Netherlands, 1990s). MICE extends this genre of
human-computer ensemble interaction by developing network technologies
and artificial intelligence systems for performance with innovative
gestural controllers. Since 2001 MICE has performed at US venues
such as the University of Washington, Charlottesville Fringe Festival,
Digitalis Under the Stars Festival, Symphony Space NYC, The DCCA,
University of Delaware, MUSE, and the Most Significant Bytes Festival.
In 2009 MICE returned to a small ensemble format in order to travel
around the world on the MICE World Tour, performing 14 concerts
in a global circumnavigation in locations such as South Africa,
India, China, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and more.
Christopher
Burns
Christopher
Burns is a composer of electroacoustic and instrumental chamber music.
His works explore simultaneity and multiplicity: textures and materials
are layered one on top of another, creating a dense and energetic
polyphony. His research interests include the application and control
of feedback in sound synthesis, the design of complex signal-processing
networks for emergent sonic behavior, and the digital realization
of classic works of live electronic music. A committed educator, Christopher
teaches music composition and technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
For more information please visit http://sfsound.org/~cburns/.
Pinko
Communoids
Pinko
Communoids have collaborated with artists including Jonathan Zorn,
Kenneth Yates (Caustic Castle), Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (of 12 Dog
Cycle), Aurie Hsu, Lee Alter (watercolorist), and Chia Chi Charlie
Chang (photographer/videographer). They aim to bring together community
improvisers and noise musicians through organizing performances,
workshops, and events with organizations and venues such as WeArts
, and The Bridge PAI and the also promote translocal and international
exchange through 804noise and HzCollective, organizing shows for
touring artists such as Arturas Bumsteinas (Warsaw, Poland), Antanas
Jasenka (Lithuania), Cheapmachines (UK), Iris Garrelfs (UK), Jeff
Surak/Violet (Washington D.C.), Rachel Thompson (San Diego, CA),
Andy Hayleck (Baltimore, MD), Kioku (NewYork, NY), Vslykon (Oakland/Tokyo),
aka Dang (Baltimore), Sadjeljko (New York, NY), Harmstryker (Richmond,
VA), and others.
12
Dog Cycle
Nigel
Brown’s ongoing investigation into acoustic-electronic interactions
currently centers on the piano accordion. As an extension of the human
body, the bellows of the accordion mimic the human lungs. In order
to sound, the instrument is pushed and pulled in a simple act of physical
exertion. The resulting sound production suggests the travel of energy
from a live but stationary body, simply breathing in and out. Nigel
works in ongoing collaborations, chance encounters and solo, the most
frequent being 12 dog cycle, a duo with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, ongoing
since 2006.
Extended vocal technique has been Alice Hui-Sheng Chang's main focus
since the end of 2003. Her work explores vocal interaction with the
soundscape and acoustic properties of the environment with attention
to visual and spatial associations. Through sounding, subtle movement
and listening experiments, she explores condensing and extracting
of inner energy, in-site and spatialisation between collaborators,
as well as the harmony and dissonance between them.
Rosalind
Hall
Rosalind
Hall is a saxophonist and instrument builder based in Melbourne,
Australia. She is interested in making modifications to the saxophone
that radically changes the sound of and approach to the instrument.
Rosalind crafts individual reeds from many materials, transforming
the reed into a sensitive and volatile sound source whose properties
are ever changing. She uses objects in the bell so that with each
preparation and reed the vibrations and playing techniques are altered,
creating a unique dialogue between the player and the instrument.
Expressive
Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI)
Expressive Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI) (USA) was founded by
Troy Rogers, Scott Barton, and Steven Kemper in 2007. EMMI designs,
builds and composes music for robotic instruments. EMMI created and
composes for Poly-tangent Automatic Monochord (PAM) and Multi-mallet
Automatic Drumming Instrument (MADI). Computer controlled mechanical
instruments allow for the marriage of extreme precision and the richness
of acoustically generated sound. Robotic instruments take computer
music out of its traditional black box and reunite sound generation
with visible physical gestures. Thus EMMI's instruments exhibit a
stage presence and theatricality absent from music produced by speakers
alone. EMMI's work emphasizes:
* Creative vs. scientific research,
* New compositions vs. reinterpretation of existing works
* Music that realizes machine potential vs. simulating human capabilities
EMMI is located in Charlottesville, VA. Rogers, Barton and Kemper
are all currently Ph.D. students at the University of Virginia in
the McIntire Department of Music's Composition and Computer Technologies
Program.
Yuri
Spitsyn
Yuri
Spitsyn is an electronic and instrumental music composer/performer
who is currently pursuing doctoral degree in composition and computer
technologies at the University of Virginia, USA. Of his prime interests
are real-time and mobile performative systems, concurrent temporalities,
volatile perceptual regions, tangibility of electroacoustic music
performance and cross-modal algorithmics. Among the venues he performed
at are Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria), Melkweg/STEIM (Amsterdam,
Netherlands), CUNY Graduate Center (New York, USA), DOM (Moscow, Russia),
Central Conservatory of Music (Bejing, China) etc. He is a cofounder
of the Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music at the Moscow Conservatory.
Michael
Straus
Saxophonist
Michael Straus (www.mstraus.net) has firmly established himself as
an important new voice for contemporary and experimental music. He
is founder of the multimedia performance and commissioning project
What are you looking at?, and regularly performs with the chamber
ensembles quux, Moonrise Hernandez, POD and EAR Duo. He has been featured
artist at music festivals internationally with recent performances
at Ireland's Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, New York City's
The Stone, Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s 8 Days in June Festival,
Minneapolis' Spark Festival of Electronic Music & Art, Berlin's
Universität der Künste, Belgium's Logos Foundation, Italy's
Festival Internazionale del Sassofono, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy
Center, Paris' Eglise Saint-Merri and Amsterdam's World Minimal Music
Festival. His recordings as a performer, composer and improviser can
be heard on SEAMUS, New Tertian, Innova, Everglade and The Walter's
Art Museum record labels along with forthcoming releases on EcoSono
and Portugal's lvcenti 14-bis. Michael is the recipient of a 2010
American-Scandinavian Foundation Creative Arts Grant (Oslo), 2008
– 2009 J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Amsterdam) and holds
M.M. degrees in saxophone performance and computer music from the
Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University and a B.M. from
Louisiana State University.
David
Dinnell
David
Dinnell is a filmmaker and film programmer currently based in Ann
Arbor, MI. His works have been exhibited at numerous venues including
the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Views from the Avant
Garde at the New York Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives (NYC),
EXiS (Seoul), Images Festival (Toronto) and the Jihlava International
Documentary Film Festival (Czech) among others.
Aaron
Henderson
Aaron’
Henderson’s videos and installations examine the personal,
cultural and political ramifications of all action, from intimate
gestures to displays of super-human acrobatics. Well acquainted
with movement, he threw himself into walls and off of platforms
for STREB Extreme Action, an acrobatic performance company from
2002-6. His videos, installations and projection designs have been
presented at Lincoln Center, the Wexner Center and many other theaters,
colleges and festivals across the country. Currently he is an Assistant
Professor in the Studio Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
MICE
Orchestra
The MICE Orchestra
is the world's first and largest orchestral-scale human-computer
ensemble. Regularly employing over 250 performers, the MICE Orchestra
was created by Matthew Burtner. The ensemble uses specially-designed
software to create music out of massive data generation.
Emergence Collective
When large groups
of humans and computers gather to make sound, the Emergence Collective
may be involved.
Interactive
Media Research Group (IMRG) / NOMADS
The
Interactive Media Research Group (IMRG) develops new technologies
for MICE including the flagship technology NOMADS (Network-Operational
Mobile Applied Digital System). The IMRG was created by Matthew
Burtner and is organized by its main developers: David Topper, Steven
Kemper and Burtner.
David Topper
has been the Technical Director for the Virginia Center for Computer
Music since 1997. His research has focused on topics ranging from
real time synthesis and video processing systems, multichannel audio,
wireless sensor arrays, single board computers, graphical user interfaces,
and Java-based network performance applications. Other work has
centered around helping build up the VCCM's physical space, resources
and community. He has also been a supporter and contributor to the
Open Source Software movement since the early 1990s.
Steven Kemper’s
research in music technology includes both the development of musical
performance systems and compositions for those systems. He is currently
a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Virginia in the Composition
and Computer Technologies program. Steven received a M.M. from Bowling
Green State University in composition and a B.A. from Bowdoin College.
In 2010, Steven won the International Computer Music Association
2010 Student Award for Best Submission for Shadows no. 5, a collaborative
work with composer and dancer Aurie Hsu that features the RAKS System.
W.
Aniseh Khan Burtner
W. Aniseh Khan-Burtner holds degrees in both Art
History and Women's Studies from the University of Kansas. Since 1991,
she has focused on a career helping to create social change through
development work with local human rights-promoting non-profit organizations,
and through art. Her love of music and dance was strongly cultivated
in the multi-cultural environment of California. Over the last eight
years, she has been an avid student of Brazilian, Cuban, Haitian and
Tahitian styles of both dance and music. She danced for four years
with Ka Ua Tuahine Polynesian Dance Company, an award winning ensemble
based in Berkeley California. She was one of seven student dancers
invited to travel to Papeete, Tahiti in the summer of 2002 to study
and perform with Ori Here Maohi Dance Company, one of Tahiti's preeminent
dance ensembles. Additionally, she performed and recorded with Santero,
a San Francisco based salsa/hip-hop/turn-tabling hybrid band playing
percussion, electric bass, and contributing vocals. In 2003 she took
on the lead part of the shaman in Matthew Burtner’s large-scale
multimedia work "Winter Raven," a role involving theater,
dance, movement art and interactive video choreography. She currently
creates wearable glass art as Aniseh Tiare (http://www.etsy.com/shop/anisehtiare
).
Juraj
Kojs
Juraj Kojs :( http://www.kojs.net
) is a Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art
at Yale’s Department of Music. In May 2008, Kojs received his
Ph.D in Composition and Music Technologies at the University of Virginia.
In 2006, Kojs' composition “Revelations” was awarded the
first place prize at Eastman Electroacoustic Composition and Performance
Competition. The same year, “In Secret” received an honorable
mention at the Digital Art Award in Tokyo, Japan.
Kojs' compositions were recently featured at the Quiet Music Festival
(Cork, Ireland), Ostrava Days Festival (Ostrava, Czech Republic),
International Computer Music Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark), Sound
and Music Computing (Lefkada, Greece), Sonoimagenes (Buenos Aires,
Argentina), New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (Paris,
France), Gaudeamus International Music Week (Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
and Society of Composers Inc. National Conference (Greensboro, USA)
and others. Juraj Kojs has published articles on compositional applications
of cyberinstruments by physical modeling synthesis in a variety of
conference proceedings and journals such as Organized Sound, Digital
Creativity and Leonardo Music Journal.
The recording of Kojs' “Air” for fujara and electronics
can be found on the Computer Music Journal DVD 2007. The score of
“Concealed” for flute and electronics was published in
SCI Journal of Music Scores, 2008. Since December 2007, Mr. Kojs has
organized a monthly series "12 Nights of Computer Music and Art"
at Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, FL (http://www.kojs.net/12Nights.html).
Dustin
Thompson
Dustin Thompson
is currently in the Film & Video and Integrated Media MFA Programs
at the California Institute of the Arts. He graduated from the University
of Virginia as an Echols Scholar in 2006 with an interdisciplinary
major in film directing, cinematography, photography, and interactive
multimedia. At UVA he received the Harrison Undergraduate Research
Award for an Ethno-photographic Study of Contemporary Italian Culture
in Rome, Italy.
Signal Ruins is his second interactive multimedia association with
Matthew Burtner, his first being Winter Raven, in which he was the
head of documentation and the performance videography while also
performing in the percussion ensemble. Dustin was the DVD author
of Morgan Ashcom’s Mammoth Media .1MM skate video distributed
by Empire Distribution. Dustin has also worked with 16mm and Super
8mm formats as well as all photography methods ranging from digital
to 35mm to large format cameras. His work has been presented at
the Charlottesville Fringe Festival and the University of Virginia’s
Salmagundi and Final Cut Film Festivals. In addition, he has performed
drums and recorded with two rock bands, DFBI and ThoroughFare, and
in this context he has performed numerous shows in Virginia.
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