Attack of the Wekinators, Kutztown Planetarium

Acoustic Interloper

Calendar Event: March 29, 2014

Attack of the Wekinators & other Soulful Tunes from the Great Beyond is the fourth computer music seminar to be held in the Grim Planetarium of Kutztown University of PA, Kutztown, PA 19530.

It will take place from 6-9 PM on Saturday, March 29, 2014, and will feature Dr. Margaret Schedel from Stony Brook on processed cello. Meg will also present a talk.

The event is FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC (this means you).

I'll take questions and post details (e.g., campus directions) as the event approaches. Kutztown lies smack dab in the middle of the Allentown-Reading PA electronic music corridor!

There is a Facebook event page here.

EDIT on Groundhog Day: Updated the poster.

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djfoxyfox

Acoustic Interloper

MusicMan11712 · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 3:12 pm Post subject:

If that's the same person I met at the Deep Listening Conference at RPI a few months ago (which I am pretty sure it is), tell Meg Schedel I say hello--although she may not know who I am unless you show her my picture. I just attended and although we chatted a number of times, I don't think I ever introduced myself. She probably just thought of me some homeless man who happened to stumble into the conference.
Steve

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:52 pm Post subject:

Steve,

Acoustic Interloper

Here is a virtual instrument dataflow diagram for *Attack of the Wekinators*. Dr. Schedel will be composing additional pieces of music, perhaps to include an invited guest performer, that we will announce later. Margaret will also present a talk. The overall theme of the seminar is to encourage the participation of female students in conducting research into computer music and related graphics. In this piece Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink's Wekinator will extract gesture data from our playing and use it to drive graphics and spatial sound projection in the planetarium. The piece has four movements, Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release, as inspired by the sonic envelope of a single note. I have started composing this piece and working on the software with students Nicole Cresse and Kên Rôhlfing. There is still lots of work to be done.

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Dataflow for Attack of the Wekinators.

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MusicMan11712 · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:34 pm Post subject:

Looks like a wonderful event. If I were anywhere nearby, I'd wander off the street and give a listen. Hope you get a nice draw.

Acoustic Interloper

Here is a little something to ponder, Dr. Steve.

I am thinking of having a 2-day regional festival in the planetarium in summer 2015.

It would have to avoid conflicting with other regional electro-music festivals -- Asheville, Indianapolis, Kansas City.

It would have to fit the schedules of the visual artists who want to participate, the usual electro-music visual geniuses.

It would have to fit my conference / travel schedule.

Hopefully we could get cheap rooms in the dorms.

I guess the cat is out of the bag.

Acoustic Interloper

You could get someone to walk around and take still shots of the audience, feed them through an image filter that strips-to-transparent about half the internal pixels (the dark areas) along with the boundaries, then let the Wekinator classifications determine translation, rotation, scale, offset, rate of fade, all the usual stuff.

Just brainstorming ideas for the planetarium.

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Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:15 pm Post subject: Subject description: Updates

I updated the poster above to reflect the fact that (I am pretty sure) that Paul Prudence will be performing.

Also, the Kutztown University Percussion Ensemble will be playing an opening piece, probably with audio processing, and certainly with generated visualization.

I am not sure whether we will be streaming live, but we will record and play the event on radio.electro-music.com at some point soon after, if not during.

Acoustic Interloper

Back in the days of working for Bel Labs' DSP organization, we'd ship reference designs, which were basically toy designs that used the evaluation cards (DSP hardware), tools and libraries (software) that customers would use to figure out how to build a real thing. A reference design is a simple example design.

Here are recordings for the reference design for the four movements of Attack of the Wekinators, namely, Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release. The performance instrumentation and improvisation will sound substantially different. They will be the "real thing."

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Sustain

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Release

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Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:01 pm Post subject:

March 29 is fast approaching, here are the directions to Kutztown University in eastern PA, here is a campus map. The planetarium is in building 11 (Grim), please park in lot B2. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:09 am Post subject:

Here is the university's press release, along with an updated poster.

djfoxyfox · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:12 am Post subject: Promotional Effort

This event is listed on the Galactic Travels events page:
http://soundscapes.us/gt/events.html#kta

If someone can get me a representative CD or CDR in time, I can play it on the air (both Galactic Travels [WDIY] and Thought Radio [WMUH]) for further promotion.

Bill Fox
P.O. Box 632
Nazareth, PA 18064-0632

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:37 am Post subject: Re: Promotional Effort

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:31 am Post subject:

Just a typical day of processing stringed instrumental music into graphics for a planetarium dome.

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Creating some building blocks to assemble.

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Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:12 am Post subject:

Time to bump this thread. Event happens in one week, with some very custom visualization software to make its debut Cool

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:46 pm Post subject:

I posted some photos here.

More photos to follow later on FB, and some recordings to be posted here on electro-music. Signal levels are a little low, but I should be able to recover something listenable when I get time.

Acoustic Interloper

I tried posting today's 9 minute 15 second video I made using Margaret Schedel's March 29 recording of her piece Oppositional Surge on YouTube, but they processed it into such a poor state that I took it down and posted it here.