{"id":1012,"date":"2025-06-20T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:28:39","slug":"msn-av","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/2025\/06\/20\/msn-av\/","title":{"rendered":"MSN-AV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Live electronic audiovisual works are constantly\u00a0seeking\u00a0to be expressive and for instruments to be responsive. MSN\/AV (Maximum Silence to Noise\/Audio-Visual)\u00a0continues this tradition with its live, interactive audiovisual performance system featuring two musicians using custom digital instruments and real-time\u00a0responsive\u00a03D graphics.\u00a0The work\u00a0explores\u00a0methods of\u00a0gestural control of sound and visuals,\u00a0emphasising\u00a0improvisational expressivity and rich audio spectra. The\u00a0new\u00a0instrument developed for the work\u00a0builds on a legacy of \u2018noisy\u2019 electronic instruments like the Crackle Box and Atari Punk Console, using ring modulation synthesis to create dynamic,\u00a0inharmonic\u00a0textures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the core of MSN-AV is a unique ring modulation technique called Maximum Silence Noise, featuring two identical morphing oscillators. These oscillators smoothly shift from silence to white noise, passing through sine and square waves, enabling a continuous evolution from simple to complex spectra.\u00a0MSN\/AV\u00a0demonstrated\u00a0that this approach, detailed in an accompanying academic paper, supports rich timbral expression through multi-dimensional touch gestures that control the MSN\u00a0instruments and coordinated real time graphics\u00a0during the\u00a0performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work was selected through international peer review for performance at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) in June 2025\u2014the leading global conference for innovation in digital instrument design. While live visuals are common in contemporary performance, research into gestural interaction and improvisation within responsive audiovisual environments\u00a0remains\u00a0emergent. Beyond a few notable artists (e.g., Louise Harris, Myriam Bleau, Vicki Bennett,\u00a0Nonotak\u00a0Studio), there is limited artistic research focused on improvising musicians in such contexts\u2014an area MSN\/AV actively investigates\u00a0as\u00a0its contribution to the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MSNAV at Welcome to CMT Concert March 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1175845823?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1505\" height=\"847\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A performance of MSN-AV by John Ferguson and Andrew Brown at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in March 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live electronic audiovisual works are constantly\u00a0seeking\u00a0to be expressive and for instruments to be responsive. MSN\/AV (Maximum Silence to Noise\/Audio-Visual)\u00a0continues this tradition with its live, interactive audiovisual performance system featuring two musicians using custom digital instruments &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}