Songs

Well I had a chat with David today as I missed him yesterday and I told him about my predicament and he told me about a box of cds in the whitespace that are copyright free. So I went down and had a rummage and this is what I came back with... so this is my job for the day!

Meeting with Belinda

I unfortuanlly missed David this morning as I had a doctors appointment, but I went into uni just so I could still have a meeting-ish and luckily Belinda was there so I had a chat with her. So my agenda last week was to find my final song. But I was struggling to find a song, dont get me wrong, theres lots of songs that I could use but I was in a little bit of a mixed mind.

1. I want to take a really famous orchestral song that everyone knows and associates a particular thing with like "bolero" with ice skating and make a new set of visuals that completely changes that.

2. I had two songs that I really like these two:

My only problem with using these songs is I wouldnt be able to do anything with my installation after uni because of the copyright. I just really love the textural elements to both the songs.

3. Find a song that doesnt have any copyright.... Im still working on finding one that would be suitable. I have emailed Yann Seznec that gave me the song for my final 3rd piece in the hope that he might have something and I have also emailed some local bands and orchestras. We will just have to wait and see!

So this is pretty much what I talked to Belinda about and she can see my predicament so what I have decided to do is not pick one song at this moment in time but to pick a few and then do a few sets of visuals and do a ton of media tests which will hopefully help my thought process

More info about the Awards Ceremony

Some orchestral pieces

Here are some piece of music that I quite like and could be used as my final track

Clavilux 2000 - Interactive instrument for generative music visualization

I have just came across this beautiful piece of visual music. I love the reference to the color organ (previously discussed in 1st semester and lit review) and through just the use of colour it has been created, no fancy frills. just lines of colour representing each note, the length they are played and the pressure in which they are played.  Here is the description for a better understanding:

"The Clavilux 2000 is an interactive instrument for generative music visualization, which is able to generate a live visualization of any music played on a digital piano. The setting of the installation consists of three parts: A digital piano with 88 keys and midi output, a computer running a vvvv patch and a vertical projection above the keyboard.

For every note played on the keyboard a new visual element appears in form of a stripe, which follows in its dimensions, position and speed the way the particular key was stroke. Colours give the viewer and listener an impression of the harmonic relations: Each key has it's own color scheme and "wrong" notes stand out in contrasting colors.
All stripes stay and overlap each other in an additive way, so at the end a kind of pattern remains – a summary of the music – which will be always unique since the notes of the composition aswell as the interpretation of the piano player are influencing the outcome. Furthermore the piano player can switch between the standart 2d view and an additional 3d view of the visualization while playing."

Clavilux 2000 - Interactive instrument for generative music visualization from Jonas Heuer on Vimeo.

Water speakers

Dont ask me how I came about this but this is AMAZING! such a great visualization and only for under £30!!! Take a look for yourself, but I am probably going to buy some..I love how dynamic they are and they visualise the music in a fun and AFFORDABLE way!

The British Science association

What a day! I dont hear back from them for song long and then I get an email from them about a lecture tonight! So anyways, I went along and filmed the lecture. It was so interesting and along with another girl we both filmed from different angles to add some diversity to they youtube video that would be uploaded to document the lecture.

It was a great learning curve as I have never filmed live before, so it wasnt like I could just tell the man to re-do a section because he had his back to me!

I am waiting on the other girl to give me her footage so that I can edit the film.