Hi Knud! thanks for your feedback, that concert has been an inspiring experience indeed. Personally speaking, it was very interesting to see how participants related to each other's sounds. There was who wanted to be the loudest, who kept following the "orchestra", but almost everyone after a while started to think about how to produce interesting sounds and exploit the interactive system in the best way. And that was one of my greatest satisfaction.
Kids were going crazy... :) In the last part of the session there were only 3/4 kids building a huge wall of sound with their screams. Some kids were even running away from their parents to come play with the system, specially when they saw nobody was using it.
Unfortunaltely your recording stop just before I introduce the
ringtone from my mobile as input :)
oops! sorry about that, I didn't want to make too long excerpt, but I can send you the whole recording if you like. I could actually make it available on the project website.
Marco
Hi Marco -
I was there :) - it was great fun for the audience, not least for the kids (as we can hear). I wish that more interactive setups would be inspiring for the kids, as yours. Unfortunaltely your recording stop just before I introduce the ringtone from my mobile as input :)
best Knud
2010/11/3 Marco Donnarumma devel@thesaddj.com:
(sorry for x-posting)
Dear all, I just uploaded an excerpt from 6 channels open air participatory
soundscape
concert "High Spheres" hosted at Re-new Festival, Copenhagen in May 2010. The concert - performed by the audience and managed by an autonomous responsive system developed in Pd - took place for the opening of the festival and last around 40mins, with a late night reprise.
As always, feedbacks, critics, suggestions are very welcome,
thanks, cheers,
Listen on Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/marcodonnarumma/marco-donnarumma-high-spheres-particip...
Further info about the project: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/high-spheres/
A report of the whole festival: http://www.thesaddj.com/re-new-digital-art-festival-report/