http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi isjtar.org Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:46:31 +0200 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:46:31 +0200 http://23.fi/kukkaisvoima/ en http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/ab%3A2010-01-26%3Anews%2Cartsbirthday http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/ab%3A2010-01-26%3Anews%2Cartsbirthday#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:46:31 +0200 Isjtar news artsbirthday http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/ab%3A2010-01-26%3Anews%2Cartsbirthday/ I did a no rehearsal quick and dirty impro with Ofer which was very acceptable.
Video courtesy of Annemie Maes.
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Many thanks to all the participants! ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/ab%3A2010-01-26%3Anews%2Cartsbirthday/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/symbimprorec%3A2010-01-26%3Anews%2Csymbiosis%2Ccomputerimprovisation http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/symbimprorec%3A2010-01-26%3Anews%2Csymbiosis%2Ccomputerimprovisation#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:32:36 +0200 Isjtar news symbiosis computerimprovisation http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/symbimprorec%3A2010-01-26%3Anews%2Csymbiosis%2Ccomputerimprovisation/ It starts out a little jittery, but then develops to some depth.



Get the rest of the recordings here ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/symbimprorec%3A2010-01-26%3Anews%2Csymbiosis%2Ccomputerimprovisation/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/timequake%3A2009-12-03%3Anews%2Ctimetravel http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/timequake%3A2009-12-03%3Anews%2Ctimetravel#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:20 +0200 Isjtar news timetravel http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/timequake%3A2009-12-03%3Anews%2Ctimetravel/ In a nutshell I had to throw all my sounds and tools out of the window and start from scratch, frightening but refreshing.
Kind of scary when a comic describes your life in detail: xkcd.
I learned an awful lot though, best of all SuperCollider!. I hope to put lots more stuff online, here and on the okno-site.
In the meanwhile, inspired by Vonnegut's timequake, I'm going to revisit what I did since april, see what came up. ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/timequake%3A2009-12-03%3Anews%2Ctimetravel/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/symbimpro%3A2009-11-29%3Anews%2Csymbiosis%2Ccomputerimprovisation http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/symbimpro%3A2009-11-29%3Anews%2Csymbiosis%2Ccomputerimprovisation#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:18:57 +0200 Isjtar news symbiosis computerimprovisation http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/symbimpro%3A2009-11-29%3Anews%2Csymbiosis%2Ccomputerimprovisation/ workshop.
Who would've though electronic musicians could play together, find structure, adapt and just make nice music?
Recordings online soon... ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/symbimpro%3A2009-11-29%3Anews%2Csymbiosis%2Ccomputerimprovisation/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/lasttheatre%3A2009-09-30%3Anews%2Clasttheatreshowever%2Csocietyofalgorithm http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/lasttheatre%3A2009-09-30%3Anews%2Clasttheatreshowever%2Csocietyofalgorithm#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:26:08 +0200 Isjtar news lasttheatreshowever societyofalgorithm http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/lasttheatre%3A2009-09-30%3Anews%2Clasttheatreshowever%2Csocietyofalgorithm/ or how to dismantle theatre by making an electro-digital instrument out of it.

Givan and Natalia invited me for this wonderfully arrogant, self-defeating and gratuitous attack on theatre.

Many audiovisual artists have a love-hate relationship with theatre. It seems so promising a setting, but the methods, workflow and social structure are so antithetical to what we are used to and believe in that it almost always goes wrong.
So I guess this week was primarily a therapeutic session for frustrated media-artists.
In the end we had a nice noise-performance, but I don't think we got rid of our traumas just yet. ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/lasttheatre%3A2009-09-30%3Anews%2Clasttheatreshowever%2Csocietyofalgorithm/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/musicsunf%3A2009-08-21%3Anews%2Cconnecteddomes http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/musicsunf%3A2009-08-21%3Anews%2Cconnecteddomes#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:49:35 +0200 Isjtar news connecteddomes http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/musicsunf%3A2009-08-21%3Anews%2Cconnecteddomes/ Connected Domes sessions with visiting artists Audrey Samson and Stefanie Wuschitz.
audio ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/musicsunf%3A2009-08-21%3Anews%2Cconnecteddomes/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/cistirna%3A2009-08-09%3Anews%2Ccistirna%2Csocietyofalgorithm http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/cistirna%3A2009-08-09%3Anews%2Ccistirna%2Csocietyofalgorithm#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:00:14 +0200 Isjtar news cistirna societyofalgorithm http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/cistirna%3A2009-08-09%3Anews%2Ccistirna%2Csocietyofalgorithm/ Or asciified unicode for Summer Workshops in the Sewage Museum!

Struck by what I still suspect to be a supermutant of the Pigs from Mexico Assault Virus, I gave up on my workshop.
But battling the haze of fever we had a nice set with my friends Givan and Michal in a Society Of Algorithm cave dwelling.

The other workshops were great, the people from yoyo ever so sweet and the place is magical. ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/cistirna%3A2009-08-09%3Anews%2Ccistirna%2Csocietyofalgorithm/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/shiftmet%3A2009-05-29%3Anews%2Cshiftingmetropolis http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/shiftmet%3A2009-05-29%3Anews%2Cshiftingmetropolis#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 13:29:07 +0200 Isjtar news shiftingmetropolis http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/shiftmet%3A2009-05-29%3Anews%2Cshiftingmetropolis/ Shifting Metropolis aims to make a descriptive map, a multimedia interpretation of a city by its inhabitants.
We moved away from the aesthetically pleasing but finally hermetic 3d world we made before and experimented with various technologies.

With Balthzar de Tonnac we got into QR tags and figured out how we could link this to the okno web environment.
We encoded urls in the tags, made stickers out of them and started posting them around the city. We put them in precise places, where if you read the tag (with a fancy cell phone) you link to the attached media.
This approach lets us add media in a fairly low-tech way to the city and allows for some nice possibilities, e.g. non-linear story telling by putting tags on fixed and mobile objects such as public busses etc.

Of course the high tech phone aspect was still a big put off, as few people have those here in Belgium, but that seems to change rapidly.
To group it all together, we put the tags on geograpically the same spot on a huge satellite photo in okno, so the public could also scan there and see the media projected.
You can get the urls and most of the content here: shiftbrussels.
The project was nice, but is for now refridgerated untill we find better ways still.

This project was presented at Coop-Bratislava ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/shiftmet%3A2009-05-29%3Anews%2Cshiftingmetropolis/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/multiplace%3A2009-04-20%3Anews%2Cmultiplace%2Csewageechoes http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/multiplace%3A2009-04-20%3Anews%2Cmultiplace%2Csewageechoes#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:10:21 +0200 Isjtar news multiplace sewageechoes http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/multiplace%3A2009-04-20%3Anews%2Cmultiplace%2Csewageechoes/ Marcio and I built a nice site-specific installation. A large tunnel, water, a valve, some leds, hydrophones, synthetic sound and a hell of a lot of effort turned it into something quite beautiful.
Givan and Michal's piece in the corridor next to us made for a nice complement.
My iPod got swallowed by a one of the holes, but we could see it was still working at 6 meters depth, ah well.
Tomorrow back to Brussels to get in gear for Shifting Metropolis, but for now I'll keep to relaxing in the Czech breeze.

Btw I spend a lot of time working on the okno site, we're still putting the new system in place and I'll migrate to something similar. So updates will be slow here, but http://okno.be should grow up to be a great site. ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/multiplace%3A2009-04-20%3Anews%2Cmultiplace%2Csewageechoes/feed/ http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/css_shots%3A2009-02-23%3Acatatonicstatesociety http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/css_shots%3A2009-02-23%3Acatatonicstatesociety#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:16:46 +0200 Isjtar catatonicstatesociety http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/css_shots%3A2009-02-23%3Acatatonicstatesociety/ An iframe capable browser is required to view this web site. ]]> http://isjtar.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi/css_shots%3A2009-02-23%3Acatatonicstatesociety/feed/