transient / curious
We held the 2nd Vernal Equinoctial Experiment on March 20, 2023 at Gabriola Island’s Agi Hall. Matt Rogalsky presented some current work about “using field recordings in improvisation, in terms of inspiration from the “Honourable Harvest” of Indigenous food gathering.” and performed an audiovisual composition in which he improvised in collusion with a thawing lake. …
Most of the most important things are things we rarely notice. The continual living action of everything in the world around us holds an endless music. THRUMS – live manipulation of the act of weaving on a 4 shaft counterbalance loom Equinoctial Experiment (Vernal) 2022 by THRUMS Ash in the Time of Ash – live …
A scanline moves across the moving image and the pixel values drive banks of tuned oscillators. Signal values are used to drive brightness/contrast/saturation parameters on the video feed. Effect chains on the oscillator banks are likewise altered by the parameters of the sound, which feeds back into the video.
Recent noisy noise for troubled times and uncertain futures
After the cookies were baked and the rants were ranted it was time to tear down and relocate to the projection site. From 9 to midnight I manipulated field recordings taken from various locations around the island – including recordings of the Quinsam, a trip to the grocery store, and a trio of pileated woodpeckers …
The debut of an episodic, semi extemporaneous anarchist cooking program at Cultivate 2019.
So this is a thing: Actually two things. I’ll be barbecueing cookies (probably vegan cookies) and processing the sounds of cookie production, accompanied by brief musical interludes and some little chats about love and rage and memetic contagion. On Saturday evening we will gather in the shining place and chant the mantra of King Shark. …
some material from the current state of the harvest. artisanal thump.
abstract a/v by eightprime
by composer Sylvia Covarrubias
