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(Cute outtake from a project I’m working on.)
I found this today on Reddit and had to share it here. I’ll try to credit the original artist as soon as I find out who it was!
I just returned to NYC last night after a weekend in Baltimore for the Megapolis Festival. (So much fun!) I’ll have a blog post about some of the sound design in this video later in the week, but for now I’ve got to get back to “real life” and catch up with some work here. Check back for more soon!
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Next weekend I’m presenting a workshop / audio art experiment at the The Megapolis Audio Festival in Baltimore. I’m calling the workshop “WikiMixing,” and I’ve set up a separate page about the project at www.drivebyhighfive.net/wikimixing. I’m mirroring it in this blog post:
Mixing on a computer is usually a solitary endeavor: one person controlling one mouse and keyboard making one decision at a time. We’re going to try to fix that. Part workshop and part experiment in “crowd-sourced” audio art, this is like editing Wikipedia but with sound instead of text. Participants will be asked to provide four short sounds with four different sonic characteristics. (Details below.) We’ll import all these sounds into a computer and collectively mix and manipulate them as a group in real-time using a bunch of colorful customized keyboard controllers, all connected to a single computer. The idea is to get as many hands/ears/minds at once collaborating (and competing) on the same soundscape, so that whatever strange, beautiful, or frightening noises that emerge are the product of our group’s collective will. Everyone is in control at the same time and yet no one is! NO prior audio software experience is necessary; everything you need to know is on the keyboards. (Pics coming soon!) Recordings of our experiments will be available immediately following the workshop.
