{"id":678,"date":"2009-09-22T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant2\/2009\/09\/freestyle-raining-texts-and-an-itp-macarthur-genius.html"},"modified":"2009-09-22T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T06:15:00","slug":"freestyle-raining-texts-and-itp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/2009\/09\/freestyle-raining-texts-and-itp.html","title":{"rendered":"Freestyle, Raining Texts and an ITP MacArthur Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/IMAGES\/text_rain.png\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camilleutterback.com\">Camille Utterback<\/a> is one of this year&#8217;s recipients of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/22\/arts\/22macarthur.html?hp\">MacArthur Grant<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/camilleutterback.com\/textrain.html\"><i>Text Rain<\/i><\/a> was a project she created while at ITP and is currently one of the inspirations I have for my NIME project.<\/p>\n<p>I want to incorporate audience participation to create a freestyle composition live. One idea I have is for audience members to text into a server that will trigger sound samples live onstage that I will manipulate and arrange. The composition would be created using some computer vision techniques a la Jitter and\/or Processing that recalls (at least to me) some <i>Text Rain<\/i> imagery. Not the content of imagery, but rather the concept. The shadows (rather, my shadow) bouncing letters or shapes or colors even, but also in turn producing sound.<\/p>\n<p>I just realized this is also similar in effect to Mike Clemow&#8217;s NIME project last year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelclemow.com\/index.php?\/granular\/physicalsonic\/\">Shadow Puppet Sequencer<\/a>. The twist here being the audience participation and myself as the shadow. As well as some other randomness.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an ambitious idea and I&#8217;m excited, but we&#8217;ll see how this concept unfolds and possibly shifts and changes as I go along (and am constrained by time). Here we go&#8230;.ITP Fall\/Winter 2009!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camille Utterback is one of this year&#8217;s recipients of the MacArthur Grant. Text Rain was a project she created while at ITP and is currently one of the inspirations I have for my NIME project. I want to incorporate audience participation to create a freestyle composition live. One idea I have is for audience members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}