Interactive

Ziller's Story

March 15th, 2010

This piece is performed using Symbolic Sound’s Kyma, a real-time digital synthesis environment and the Wacom tablet as the control surface.

Ziller’s story utilizes text, as read by Alonzo Moore, from Tom Robbins’ book Another Roadside Attraction. The text is a poem left by John Paul Ziller for his wife after she has experienced a devastating loss. One cannot lose what was never found, just as even when something is lost, it is never gone. This piece explores how text can be used as a background tapestry to influence the unconscious awareness of time and space. What we observe and accumulate through time always exists within us, becoming part of our foundation and part of our experience. One is meant to experience the full journey before the answer is revealed, traveling from the tips of the mountains to arrive right in front of you.

Future Music Oregon concert series

February 27th, 2010

Ting! FMO

July 18th, 2010

Collaboration with my partner Mark Knippel.  A real-time performance for iPhone,
nintendo Wiiremote, a collection of sound makers, custom software and video.
Written in Max/MSP/Jitter, the initial idea was to explore how audio signals can affect the video domain in various ways.  Since then, the piece has undergone its own evolution, with additional elements being added to make it more of a piece and less of a machine.

Essentially, there are 3 different types of sounds occurring throughout this piece:  sounds derived from an array of acoustic sound makers, live manipulation of those sounds in real time, and the addition of various recalled and manipulated in real-time  meta-Tings!

The extension of the original acoustic instrument becomes transformed.  Their interaction with both each other and the video create a temporal space that oscillates between beautiful, humorous, and completely insane.

The video being used is entitled Hep Cat Symphony (1949), directed by Seymour Kneitel.

Ting! OCF

July 24th, 2010

http://www.vimeo.com/13585658Ting!

Written and Performed by Mark and Jenifer Knippel

Performed at the Oregon Composers Forum, Spring 2010, University of Oregon

New Music Controller Workshop

July 18th, 2010

I went to a New Music Controller workshop this summer, and this video is the culmination of our 5 days together.
I am working on developing a pair of gloves for me to utilize in the gestural control of electronic music.
Soon to Come!

http://www.vimeo.com/13794193