Projection Design

“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Experimental Music - Pd

In one of my production classes I'm in a group that's doing a documentary film on the underground/experimental music scene in Gainesville. The doc was another group member's project idea, so I didn't even know this type of music existed here until this semester.
We filmed about four different groups/individual performances last weekend and most of them were using Pd to coordinate the audio and video components of their live performance. It was revealing to see first hand just how groups chose to use video projections to complement their computer generated music. One group had a theremin and one group would record noises onto cassette tapes and then play them back in repetition while distorting the original sounds. Some also used traditional instruments ,like the violin, in addition to their computers.
This is still so new to me...

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