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BiLE at Laptops Meet Musicians Festival, 11-12 July 2011

Published on 08/07/2011 in Events. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

From 10th-13th July I’ll be in Venice (which is in Italy, apparently) with another three-sevenths of BiLE for the Laptops Meet Musicians Festival.

Sonic Arm Wrestlers

We’ll be performing two pieces, Partially Percussive (recording below) and XYZ, which was recently performed when BiLE was in Norway for NIME:

XYZ (or ‘Sonic Arm Wrestle’) is a structured improvisation using motion capture devices such as iPhone, Wiimote and Xbox Kinect. Each player can fight to take control of another players sound.

In Partially Percusive, players sample the sounds of striking metallic objects and then manipulate the sounds in software. Players are instructed to listen for whether other players are playing sounds that are percussive vs sustained, pointillistic vs flowing, sparse vs dense, or loud vs soft and situate their own sounds accordingly. Players can sample a new sound after a pause and can pause for as long as they’d like, when they feel they should.

Partially Percussive by BiLE

You should all travel from wherever you are in the world to Italy just for this one spectacular performance. ;-)

BiLE at Light House Media Centre, 18th June 2011

Published on 18/06/2011 in Events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

BiLE will be performing alongside Thee Moths and Noise Research at Light House Wolverhampton on the 18th of June

BiLE, Thee Moths, and Noise Research, Free, at Light House Wolverhampton, on the 18th of June

As well as performing with BiLE I’ll be doing visualness throughout the whole night. Did I mention it’s all free?

BiLE

Published on 30/05/2011 in Blog. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Aside from a brief post announcing our performance at SOUNDkitchen a few months back I’ve failed to actually talk about the Birmingham Laptop Ensemble (BiLE).

BiLE at Electroacoustic Compostion Forum in Liverpool

six sevenths of BiLE performing in Liverpool

BiLE (Birmingham Laptop Ensemble) are a collaborative group of composers and performers of instrumental and electroacoustic music. Six artists were brought together through their shared interest in live performance and desire to perform and improvise together in an interactive ensemble.

BiLE’s core team of performers are: Julien Guillamat, Charles Céleste Hutchins, Shelly Knotts, Norah Lorway, Jorge Garcia Moncada and Chris Tarren.

BiLE regularly perform with glitch artist Antonio Roberts.

My role in the group (the supersecrit seventh member) is, where necessary, to provide visuals for their performances. Up until now I’ve been using various versions of a video mixer built in Pure Data to do my visuals. This has worked and I’ve used it to create this video for Electroacousitc Sonata No.1 for Cello by Julien Guillamat:

For future performances I want to compose visuals in the same way that they do with audio. For example, for some pieces each member is able to control certain parts of the software being used by another member by sending messages via OSC over a wireless network. I’ve recently figured out how to join this network so now I’ll be using their data to affect the visuals. I also want to use a Wiimote and Kinect in some way, but I’ll have to work on that.

BiLE will be performing next at NIME in Oslo, Norway (without me) on 31st May 2011. After that we have an easer-to-get-to gig in Wolverhampton. More on that soon…

BiLE at SOUNDkitchen, 17th March 2011

Published on 13/03/2011 in Events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

On Thursday 17th March from 8pm I’ll be providing visuals for BiLE (Birmingham Laptop Ensemble) at SOUNDktichen Balkan Fusion at the Hare and Hounds
SOUNDkitchen

BiLE are a collaborative group of composers (instrumental and electroacoustic), performers and programmers who are all active members of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre). The core group of six artists were brought together through their shared interest in live performance and desire to perform and improvise together in an interactive ensemble.

This will be my first foray into the land of live visuals and certainly not my last. I’m really excited about this as long as my computer doesn’t crash it’ll be an awesome set! Get your tickets here.