{"id":550,"date":"2020-09-05T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/?p=550"},"modified":"2022-09-05T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:09:31","slug":"audio-visual-interiors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/2020\/09\/05\/audio-visual-interiors\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio-Visual Interiors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audio-Visual Interiors is a quadraphonic audio-visual composition performed by the live electronic duo of John R. Ferguson and Andrew R. Brown.&nbsp;Both composers have developed bespoke instruments for this work. Andrew R. Brown explores ring modulation synthesis controlled by multi-dimensional touch gestures; this provides a rich diversity of sonic potential whilst maintaining remnants of physical gesture. Various audio effects and algorithmic sound diffusion enhances and relocates what is otherwise a simple monophonic sound source. This instrument is written in Pure data and runs on an iPad. John Ferguson\u2019s instrument employs Euclidean rhythms and sound-file granulation in the foreground. He has created a bespoke hardware interface that connects to a software environment written in Pure Data, which runs on an iPhone. Data from both performers\u2019 interactions with their instruments are passed to a Touch Designer system, which is used to generate and\/or manipulate various live visual materials.<\/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=\"Audio-visual Interiors\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/352644500?h=767cd85c7a&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1505\" height=\"847\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project contributes to the discourse around what is possible in the realm of live audio-visual performance. The work involves performance with live algorithms where performer agency is augmented by machine agency. The use of mobile devices, as well as free\/open-source software, is an important undercurrent. Overall, the human performers remain central, but the audience engages with an audio-visual spectacle that is sonically and visually immersive, and there is a clear technologically-mediated agency, which reconfigures the role of what it is to be a live musician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ferguson and Brown performed \u2018Audio-Visual Interiors\u2019 live at the 2019 Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC), Monash University, Melbourne.<\/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=\"Audio-Visual Interiors @ ACMC 2019\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/396115836?h=0473b243f1&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1505\" height=\"847\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio-Visual Interiors is a quadraphonic audio-visual composition performed by the live electronic duo of John R. Ferguson and Andrew R. Brown.&nbsp;Both composers have developed bespoke instruments for this work. Andrew R. 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