affordances

nathan.adams

Made in a time of a constraint, what does it mean to look deep into basic tools available within software, and use them to drive and inspire behaviours. When performances become virtual, and everyone is a DJ, what is the meaning of interaction in performance. What happens when the performer creates a work, throws out into the either, and casually disregards their creation until it is time to close it down and shut it up. Are you howling into the void?

Affordances is an audio-visual installation, created in Cycling 74’s Max which explores ideas of deterministic sound generation, by using standard user interface elements to recreate a pachinko machine, where ball bearings are replaced by Max’s bangs, and rewards are replaced by instructions to a quadrophonic sound engine. In creating these instructions, a photo-language is created, representing the soundscape in a list of vectors, which can be replayed at anytime.

The installation will be started on Thursday 17th September and will run continuously till Sunday 20th with no further intervention from the artist. It will be streamed during this time at http://www.twitch.tv/lxinspc

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affordances will be generating it's performance throughout the duration of Chimera Garden, it can be followed at http://twitch.tv/lxinspc

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    nathan.adams

    nathan.adams (with.lasers) adventuring in complexity and emergent behaviour, explorer of inner worlds, finding ways to express digitally that which can not be expressed easily in person…

    working with open frameworks, swift + metal, max msp and any other language and tool that can be manipulated into useful forms, nathan uses particle systems and other generative schemes to explore a wide range of subjects - from deconstructing performance, to emergent behaviours in faux-physical worlds

    subverting many years of designing and developing enterprise technology systems, he now brings those skills to bear in a purely creative direction

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    Generative poetics  Distance orchestra  Paracomputing   audio visual  generative  music  

    nathan.adams

    nathan.adams (with.lasers) adventuring in complexity and emergent behaviour, explorer of inner worlds, finding ways to express digitally that which can not be expressed easily in person…

    working with open frameworks, swift + metal, max msp and any other language and tool that can be manipulated into useful forms, nathan uses particle systems and other generative schemes to explore a wide range of subjects - from deconstructing performance, to emergent behaviours in faux-physical worlds

    subverting many years of designing and developing enterprise technology systems, he now brings those skills to bear in a purely creative direction