Still from a/v synth performance at Transcinema, 1999, Benton C. Bainbridge
Here’s episode 104: Adventure Bomb: Projecting, a revised and expanded edition of the set I performed at Soundcrawl in collaboration with Benton-C Bainbridge’s live video projection mapping (“Fast-mapping”). Recorded at Brick Factory Nashville. Best experienced through headphones.
Adventure Bomb is my experimental “scoop & loop” solo project. “Scoop & loop” is a performance-style that involves scooping out sections of recordings and looping them live … basically, audio juggling.
Benton-C Bainbridge is a media artist based in The Bronx, working with custom systems of his own design. Benton has presented immersive environments, screenings, installations and live performances across five continents, collaborating with scores of artists around the world. He even has a Wikipedia page! (Someone should add this collaboration!)
Soundcrawl is a sound art and new media organization led by Kyle Baker presenting works by the best and brightest new media artists and composers in a unique “opt in” gallery format.
“Projecting” is comprised of:
- Interviews with Soundcrawl attendees. As they listened to Soundcrawl “sound art” selections via headphones, they were asked to describe what they were hearing. The central idea to this experiment was seeing if I could “map” their descriptions onto the music I was generating live.
- Snippets of live musical performances occurring at Soundcrawl 2012.
- Instruments performed by Adventure Bomb live, including a Casio Sk-1 keyboard, circuit-bent toys and various effects.
- Sound effects and field recordings from Freesound.org. Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, etc … released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. Listeners are encouraged to donate to Freesound.
The interviewees (in order of appearance):
- Lesley Beeman
- Unknown (Let me know if you can identify this person)
- Antonia Oakes
- Joe Nolan
- Tony Youngblood
- Ilana Morgan
- Ryan Hogan
- Unknown (Let me know if you can identify this person)
The 2012 Soundcrawl performers sampled (in alphabetical order):
- Jason Fick
- Timothy Harenda
- Ilana Morgan
- Adam Vidiksis
- Sally Williams
- Mark Zanter
Freesound.org collaborators and the names of the samples used:
- Corsica_S, “C_S_Rhodes_Mark_2_A0,” “C_S Rhodes Mark II D5,” “C_S Rhodes Mark II G2” & “C_S Rhodes Mark II G#1”
- digifish music, “Katy_Sings_Melisma_2,” www.digifishmusic.com
- IEDlabs, “oboe horn tune & audience r”
- in-tune.nl, “Lier”
- jus, “cellos three chords” and “cellos two chords 88 bpm”
- Klankbeeld, “Clockwork-14” and “Clockwork-15”
- mich3d, “Drop_Slow_Long_01”
- oyez, “frogs”
- Genji Siraisi aka pushtobreak, “valihaloop5-5” and “valihaloop6-5”
- reinsamba, “evening in the forest”
- robinhood76, “00578 tiny old clock hour signal 1”
- sagetyrtle, “crackling_fire_021012”
Big thanks to the participants and to the Freesound artists! Thanks for listening!
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