NIME was the first class I went to this week and it was an awesome introduction to my 2nd and graduating year at ITP. Hans-Christoph Steiner is teaching the class together with Greg Shakar. We have a great group of people in the class and I’m looking forward to everyone’s projects and our performances this December.

Some ideas I have for the class are:

* Some kind of audience participated, improv composition. What initially came to mind was Freestyle Love Supreme, but with a twist. I first saw Freestyle Love Supreme some years ago when my friend Arthur Lewis was performing with them. At the time, Lin-Manuel was also performing, but I’m not sure if he still is since In the Heights has been on Broadway.

In any case, Freestyle Love Supreme is an improv group that “get words from the audience – use them to inspire new rap songs – build a hip-hop community.”

My very loose concept takes a similar approach, by having the audience contribute to the sonic composition during the performance. I currently have no real cohesive idea as to exactly how I’ll be doing this except that it may involve sensors, colors, lights, camera, computer and Max/MSP/Jitter in some way.

* Another idea (again, very loose), involves Jitter and segmenting quadrants in space. Each quadrant will correspond to a sound or effect. The camera will be used as a sensor and will detect the movement (and possibly color) in space to create sound. The movement will namely be me (or some other moving being) sort of dancing around to create the composition live. But this idea may potentially find itself fusing with the first idea.

Ideally, I’d like some cohesive beats/rhythms in my piece as opposed to something more random and ethereal. I do DJ after all, love beats and enjoy when people are dancing. I definitely don’t expect people to dance at NIME, but some head nodding would be cool.

This week I attended a 3-day interactive TV workshop led by Shawn Van Every. We just finished and an entry about it has just been posted to the OEDN front page.

(click image to link to OEDN blog entry)

About OEDN (from their site): “Founded in 2007, the mission of the OCAP/EBIF Developer Network (OEDN) community is to drive awareness of and application development efforts using the two primary interactive cable television open standards for middleware: OCAP (known to consumers as tru2way) and EBIF. Through its developer network website, oedn.net and via other well-known social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook, OEDN aims to broadly socialize the advantages of developing interactive apps for digital cable, and to bring a new generation of software development talent to the cable industry.”

The Go Bag presentation is up on WNYC.org for Brian Lehrer’s Uncommon Economic Indicators show.

Click image to link to the site.

This is the magazine mock-up cover Nobu Nakaguchi and I designed for Rachel Abram’s Service Design for Public Space class.

And the link for the post on the class site:
A Go Bag for the Recently Laid Off

This was created by ITP Alum – Karl Channell. As he put it: “ITP reprazent! I had a blast working on this project, definitely did it ITP style with plenty of last minute all nighters.”

You know how we do. 😉

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/apples_kickass_app_display_wall_at_wwdc_and_oh_yeah_theres_a_new_iphone_13706.asp

Here are some online references to the Spring show that include my Zoetrope!

Link: Makezine photosLink: Nelson Lau’s photos

And while we’re at it, a reference to the video installation Patrick Grizzard and I did for the Winter Show:
http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/itp-winter-show-part-2.html

Just one more TED post. I know this has been the most viewed video in the TEDTalks this past year, but I had to link it here. Reminds me of the poem I wrote back in 1995 and how the subtle, but significant difference between “ALONE” AND “A-L-L-O-N-E” is that L. Anyways…

Zoetrope from teknevision on Vimeo.

ITP’s daily craziness via Mike Kelberman’s RotoBooth.

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