Podcasts

Hyper-Shaku: MP3 music

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:36:50 +1000

Hyper-Shaku: Border Crossing is a hyper instrument environment for gesturally interactive audio and visual augmentation of shakuhachi. Computer Vision, Computer Listening and wireless motion sensors are used to trigger generative creativity in biologically inspired modules, such as Neural Oscillator Networks, Evolutionary Looming, Cellular Automata, Lindenmeyer Systems.

Design by Kirsty Beilharz + Sam Ferguson. The associated sound file is a recording of the granular synthesis, looming and NOSC generation triggered by a recording of Bronwyn Kirkpatrick playing Tamuke ...

Hyper-Shaku: Border Crossing QT video

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:13:12 +1000

Hyper-Shaku Border Crossing hyper instrument environment for gesturally interactive audio and visual augmentation of shakuhachi.

Design: Kirsty Beilharz
Assistant: Sam Ferguson

Tech: Max/MSP + Jitter, Pelletier cv.jit, Eldridge NOSC (modified), Jehan noisiness, iSight camera or built-in web cam, performed using humble macbook and built-in mic.

Video:
1. profile playing shakuhachi with patch, showing chin/head motion with web cam capturing gesture
2. screen-shot whole main patch takes in video - tracking [yellow dot] sends head position to Neural Oscillator Net settings, sound filtered for pitch, loudness and noisiness then to granular synthesis, looming and Neural Oscillator Network
3. shows sound analysis sent to NOSC
4. visualization abstract video filter of web cam live image

Japan & Colorado ‘06

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:07:18 +1000

A photographic tour of Tokyo, Kamakura, Nikko, Kyoto, Arashiyama, Sagano, Nara, Chichibu (and Colorado) accompanied by shakuhachi and koto music.

Fabrication II: Silk Cry at Tin Sheds Gallery

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:04:14 +1100

Electronic composition and music video designed to accompany Amanda Robins’ painting and drawing exhibition at the Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.

10 minute Music Video submitted to Ars Electronica, Austria.

Fabrication II: The Cry of Silk was composed for the opening of Amanda Robins’ exhibition, What Lies Beneath at the Tin Sheds Gallery in Sydney, March-April 2006. Robins paints and draws highly detailed and realistic interiors of coats and garments, continuing the long tradition of visual arts interpretation through drapery (figure 1). The art of drapery is concerned with layers, superimposition, veiling, concealing, embodying and appreciation of different textures and folds. These metaphors transgress sensory boundaries and apply equally well to sound design. The idea of fabrics, textiles, textures and their embedded and embodied meanings motivates the integration of collected dynamic fabrics (recorded leather, feathers, fur, silk, corduroy, zippers, velcro, canvas) interpreted through various filters and processes of computer composition. Fabrication II: The Cry of Silk is a synaesthetic and perceptual exploration of fabric sounds eliciting mental images that are normally seen and felt. The work aims to shift our consciousness to a different level of sensory perception of fabrics. Historically, the mythology of The Cry of Silk is also an interesting and inspiring one in which the voice of the finest silk being torn is said to have resembled a cry, with its sensual connotations. We seldom think of ‘giving voice’ to materials and cloth, yet the textures and diversity of sounds available by brushing, rubbing, tearing, rustling and caressing fabrics, provides a rich sound world capable of focusing our ear at a deep level of attention to minutiae and detail. This coincides with an introspective examination of the micro and particle sound design magnified by musical exploration and processing of sounds in close scrutiny. Subtleties and intricacies of tiny sounds are extended, augmented, transposed and amplified to illuminate the beauty and curiosity of their microstructure in a way that we may not ordinarily hear and appreciate.

Fluid Sinews - Honourable Mention

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:35:35 +1000

Honourable Mention - one of 4 finalists in the 1st World Bass Clarinet Convention Composition Competition, held in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Premieres at Cite des Arts, Paris

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:46:01 +1000

New work BreathSculpt (electronic) developed with AudioSculpt (IRCAM) and Logic Pro at the Cite Internationale des Arts performed, along with a reworking of Tasmanian Wilderness (electronic) and Bamboo Voice (shakuhachi and ensemble) with video and the light-hearted music video, Paris Metro at the Cite des Arts concert auditorium. The concert was a collaboration with Alejandro Castanos (from IRCAM).

I was resident at the Cite for 4 months during my Sabbatical in Paris.

Paris Metro

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:43:18 +1000

Paris Metro music video and photomontage from my stay in Paris in 2004 / 2005 sync'd to a light-hearted stroll in accessible electronic music. First performed at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Bamboo Voice

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:38:41 +1000

Bamboo Voice music video of chamber concerto for shakuhachi [Yoshikazu Iwamoto] and ensemble [Ensemble Recherche Freiburg @ Hannover Biennale] 2000 with images captured in Japan and France. Video version first performed at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Tasmanian Wilderness

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:37:04 +1000

Tasmanian Wilderness is an ambient soundscape video exploring textures and densities, all derived from organic and natural sounds. Most photographic images were captured around Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake near Launceston in Tasmania. First performed at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Sand Spirals - competition finalist in France

Wed, 18 May 2005 00:37:13 +1000

Finalist in Angoulême Colloque International Competition du Basson (France) for Tide-etched Sand Spirals, top 6 selected world-wide.

Diaphanous Granules - solo piano

Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:36:36 +1000

... new solo piano score

11 min.s

Sensor Cow - motion sonification

Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:19:05 +1100

Using the UDP La Kitchen Kroonde Gamma wireless (radio frequency) transmitter and acceleration, gyroscopic and binary motion sensors with Max/MSP “in the field” ...

Sydney Sinfonia Aurorean Ritual performance

Sat, 4 May 2002 00:04:08 +1000

Aurorean Ritual by Kirsty Beilharz for symphony orchestra performed at City Hall Angel Place, conducted by Richard Gill, commissioned by Symphony Australia (ABC).