Ojos Te Vean
Eyes can see you (Ojos te vean) www.ojosTeVean.net intends to be a non-utilitarian channel of poetic audiovisual creation. It is a collaborative net project that produces short abstract videos using the material generated by the users over the Internet. In order to achieve this goal, the project is made of a forum, a customized piece of software, a server, an automatic audio and movie mashing system, an automatic subtitling machine, and a set of public showing events organized by the participants.
Duo Juum
Juum Duet, (www.DuoJuum.net) integrated by Hugo Solís and Gabriela Villa, is a free electroacoustic improvisation ensemble created at the beginning of year 2006. Both musicians, native Mexicans, share interdisciplinary interests and education which include music, music technology, digital media and speech.
Solo Performance
I see each of my improvisations as a snapshot of the state in the development of my acoustical/technical/creative research. The style, technologies, and expressive intentions have significantly changed over the years but the use of the acoustic piano has remained as a constant. Even when I improvise only electronics and/or visuals, I treat the material with similar strategies where the notion of “structure” –sometimes recognizable, sometimes suggested- is of extreme importance.
Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface
The Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface (IMPI) is a piece of software for the creation and guidance of audiovisual improvisations. By drawing into a digital tablet using a defined syntax, a conductor generates in real time both the music displayed in several formats on computer screens for the musicians, and dynamic graphics projected on the stage in synchronicity with the music. The kind of musical style this system is intended for is non-tonal, non-rhythmic, and texture-oriented, which means that strong emphasis is put on the control of timbral qualities and continuum transitions. One of the main goals of the system is the translation of planned compositional elements such as precise structure and synchronization between instruments into the improvisatory domain. The graphics that IMPI generates are organic, fluid, vivid, dynamic, and unified with the music.
Understanding Collective Gestural Improvisations; a Computational Approach
Thesis Abstract
Gestural Improvisation is a type of free improvisation that aims to create short and long-term relationships in the acoustic parameters of music, such as pitch and intensity. The gestural improvisation style is closely related to the concept of real-time composition. This work describes a set of experiments based on signal processing methods and machine learning techniques that are applied to gestural improvisation music. These methods are commonly applied to other styles of music and employed in music information retrieval and computational musicology, among other elds. As a case-study, a set of twenty-one multi-channel recordings of music performed by the ve-member gestural improvisation group EnsAmble Crumble is analyzed.
Ix-.-.hel
ix-.-.hel creates a visual and audio link between three communication methods: hands, Morse code, and cell phone messages. The audience is an active participant in the result of the work, by being asked to resend the last text message in their cell phone. The text is used to produce visual and sound events, becoming rhythmic when translated into Morse code. The visual content is generated from human hands images provided by the audience.
The installation is dedicated to Ixhcel Solis, the artist's sister, deaf since birth. For both, hand language has been an important communication medium. The cell phone messages have become not only a practical way of communication, but the most common way to send instant emotions at a distance.
This work was selected in the TRANSITIO_MX International Video and Electronic Arts Festival from Mexico City. You can see the description at TRANSITIO_MX --> festival 05 --> contest --> selected works.
radioBANDA
RadioBANDA is a radio network art piece that consists of an installation of analog radios and a web server that people access to create music in real time. The final mix is then broadcast by a radio transmitter over 88.1 FM. (IN SPANISH)
Moz-Art-Global-Art
The MOZ-ART-GLOBAL-ART project is a piece of software for collective audiovisual improvisations over the net produced by the composer Mauricio Valdes and the author. It was commissioned by the Instrumenta 2006 festival which should have taken place in Oaxaca Mexico on June 2006.
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Trio Nicrom
In order to combine my various interests, I founded the NICROM Electro-acoustic Musical Improvisation Trio in 2001. This trio, consisting of two musicians and a painter, was a creative forum for sound and graphic experimentation and exploration. We were particularly interested in finding alternative means of producing coherent musical discourse based more on atonal and graphic manipulation than on the interval relations between sounds, which led us to explore the spectrum of noise and abstract painting.
EnsAmble Crumble
EnsAmble Crumble, an electro-acoustic improvisatory ensemble was formed at the beginning of 2005 by four musicians from France, Spain, Mexico, and The Netherlands all of them with interdisciplinary studies in music and sound technology.