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LED Glove Controller: The Final Collaborative Project for Josh Gumiela’s “Video for Interactive Media” Class

Jul 082013

Circuit bender, musician and installation artist Josh Gumiela taught an interactive media class at the Art Institute of Tennessee Nashville during spring quarter. He showed me some media of the final class project, and it was so amazing that I had to share it here.

Under Josh’s guidance, the class created an LED glove controller that can manipulate video and sound.

Josh wrote:

The idea was to generate imagery and sound using light and a handheld device. We ended up constructing a glove with LEDs in each finger (red, green, blue, yellow, and white). An Arduino was used to power the LEDs and coded to let the user toggle each LED on or off using pushbutton switches installed on the glove. We used an HD webcam to filter and track the color of each LED in Max6. The colors then generate simple OpenGL primitives and their positions are mapped onto the X and Y planes. At the same time, sound is generated in Max using granular synthesis and different waveforms & filters are applied depending on the color and position.

You really need to see the video and images to appreciate how phenomenal this is. Kudos to Josh and his students in the spring ’13 session of IMD340: Video for Interactive Media.

IMD340: Video for Interactive Media
Art Institute of Tennessee Nashville
Instructor: Josh Gumiela
Students: Holly Cunningham, Grant Glover, Ben Ware, Jeremiah Young

Sewing the wiring.

Holly Cunningham

Jeremiah Young

Hooking up the Arduino.

Holly Cunningham

The blank strip of processed 35mm film negative in front of the camera filters for infrared light.

Ben Ware

(clockwise) Grant Glover and Ben Ware

Ben Ware

Josh Gumiela’s exhibit at last Friday’s Future Night at Boheme Collectif was the talk of the show. I’ll be posting media from that show very soon. Josh will also be appearing on an upcoming Theatre Intangible podcast showcasing his project with Luke Rainey called Age.

Tonight at Third Man Records: Poetry Sucks! 07-07-2013

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Jul 072013

Chet Weise‘s wonderful poetry-and-music event Poetry Sucks! has moved from Dino’s to Third Man Records, and tonight’s program looks absolutely delectable. In addition to hearing great poetry and music, you can also view Tim Kerr‘s artwork on display in the Third Man gallery. Laura Hutson at the Nashville Scene wrote about the gallery show here.

Tim will appear at the event tonight. Also on the program: Sampson Starkweather, Lee Baines and the Glory Fires, Larry O. Dean, Paige Taggart, and Jim Kish.

Tim was scheduled to perform with Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, but Holly had to cancel due to inclement weather. Chet Weise informs us that all is not lost:

Tim will be performing instead with Jim Kish as a banjo and fiddle duo. They’ll be posting up outside on our patio from 4pm giving hot dog and beer fans a little chewin music… Excited Tim can still play and stoked to have Jim here with him.

The gorgeous poster is by Rachel Briggs, the designer of every Poetry Sucks! poster thus far and the Circuit Benders’ Ball poster.

From the press release:

Tim Kerr was a founding member of The Big Boys, Poison 13, Bad Mutha Goose, Lord High Fixers, and Monkey Wrench; all groups who have played an important role in what is known as the US indie scene today. Not only has he been inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame, but Tim also earned a degree in painting and photography at the University of Texas in Austin and studied the latter with Garry Winogrand. His artwork has shown in the US and abroad in galleries such as PS1 in New York, 96 Gillespie in London, Slowboy Gallery in Germany, and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Tim may even join in the music making on the 7th! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1NuZvGw_20

Sampson Starkweather was born in Pittsboro, NC. He is the author of the First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather and 5 chapbooks from dangerous small presses. He is a founding editor of Birds, LLC and works for The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY. http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012/10/sampson-starkweather.html

Paige Taggart lives in Brooklyn and is the author of 3 chapbooks. Trembling Pillow Press will publish her first full-length collection Want For Lion in late 2013/early 2014. She’s an avid jeweler (mactaggartjewelry.com) and co-founded the tumblr Poets Touching Trees. http://www.bookslut.com/features/2011_04_017492.php

Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. His most recent books include Brief Nudity (Salmon Poetry, 2013), and Basic Cable Couplets (Silkworms Ink, 2012). Also a critically-acclaimed songwriter, Dean has numerous CD releases, including Fun with a Purpose (2009) with The Injured Parties. He was a 2004 recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Award. http://salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=282&a=233

Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires’ debut album There is a Bomb in Gilead was released on Alive Records. Now, LBIII and The Glory Fires re-unite with Tim Kerr to record their next album in Nashville, TN with the legendary Jeremy Ferguson at Battle Tapes Recording Studio. Could there be a bigger bang? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk7NWoZOncE

More info on the Facebook event page

Poetry Sucks!
Sunday, July 7th, 4pm
Free show
Third Man Records
623 7th Ave S
Nashville, Tennessee 37203

E105 Robert Bond and Regi Wooten Artist Showcase 2013-07-06

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Jul 062013

Here’s podcast 105: Robert Bond and Regi Wooten Artist Showcase.

We recorded this series of four improvs at The B Room in Nashville on June 18th, 2013. Regi and Robert are two Nashville musicians with long and fruitful careers who have only just recently begun performing together.

Guitarist Regi Wooten is the eldest of the Wooten Brothers, five tremendously talented siblings. Victor Wooten plays bass in Bela Fleck & The Flecktones and other projects. Roy “Future Man” Wooten is a percussionist, instrument designer, and drummer for Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Joseph Wooten plays keyboards with The Steve Miller Band and other projects. Rudi Wooten played saxophone in Rudy and the Ban of Brathazz, on his brother Victor’s albums and in various other projects. Sadly, he passed away in 2010.

When the Wootens were children, Regi assigned each brother with an instrument and taught them all how to play. The young Wootens toured the country extensively, opening for artists such as Curtis Mayfield, War, and The Temptations.

Regi teaches guitar in Nashville and performs with the other Wooten Brothers Band weekly at Third and Lindsley, a showcase now in it’s 21st year.

Robert Bond is a percussionist, electronic artist, producer and composer. He is a graduate of Indiana University School of Music where he studied both jazz and classical. Robert has worked with The Yardbirds, Bo Diddly, Charlie McCoy, London Symphony Orchestra, Charlie Louvin, Sleepy LaBeef, Chris Stein of Blondie, 3kStatic, Les McCann, jpop star Hitoe and countless others. He has taught at Lavelle School for the Blind in New York, as artist in residence for Fundacio “la Caixa” in Spain, for the Osher Lifelong learning Institute at Vanderbilt University, and as Adjunct Professor at Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt.

Robert also opened the Zeitgiest Indeterminacies series at the new Zeitgeist space.

Regi and Robert took a unique approach to this session. They recorded an initial improv with Regi on electric bass and Robert on electronics. Weeks later — and on the date I was in attendance — they ran back the tape and recorded again with Regi on guitar and Robert on drums and additional electronics. This is essentially a quartet with two players improv-ing with past versions of themselves.

Since we were in his studio (The B Room) and the setup involved multi-tracking, Robert Bond recorded, engineered, and mixed this episode. I did some light mastering and assembled the four improvs.

See below for a video I took during the performance.

Thanks for listening!

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Friday at Boheme Collectif: FUTURE NIGHT Experimental Art and Music Showcase 07-05-2013

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Jul 032013

Mike Kluge’s FUTURE NIGHT this Friday at Boheme Collectif promises to the best of the series so far. Of particular interest to Theatre Intangible listeners and Circuit Benders’ Ball fans is the Electric Petting Zoo, an interactive art gallery from Noon to 6pm.

The petting zoo features T.I. participants and Benders’ Ball alums such as Andrew Morrill, Zach Adams, Josh Gumiela, and Morgan Higby-Flowers. Here’s the full list of interactive artist:

Zach Adams (CMKT4, Nashville Robotic Philharmonic): Circuit-bent installation.
Brains Bayley: Trippy kaleidoscope installation.
Tyler Blankenship: Large silver sound-and-light emitting pyramid.
Josh Gumiela: Interactive audio/visual install. Mike Kluge says, “Trust me, you will want to see it!”
Linda Heck : Something involving mics inserted into stuffed animals.
Morgan Higby-Flowers: I’m not sure what he has planned for the installation, but if it’s as half as cool as what he did at Noa Noa Experimental Series #2, then I’m sold.
Andrew Morrill (Brain Lesion): Noise circuits.
Russ White: Reactive sound-and-color organ.

At 8pm the music begins, featuring Sacramento, California band Pregnant. This band is doing extremely innovative things under the guise of pop music, and I can’t wait to see them live. Check out their video below. They remind me a bit of Bird Names, tUnE-yArDs, and Solex.

Also on the bill is the aforementioned Morgan Higby-Flowers and master DJ / friend of Theatre Intangible Quiet Entertainer.

The full list of performers:

For more info, check out the Facebook event page.

FUTURE NIGHT Experimental Art and Music Showcase
July 5th, 2013
12pm-6pm gallery, 8pm performances
byob, $8 (gallery and show) $5 (gallery) $5 (show). Click here for tickets.
@ Boheme Collectif
919 Gallatin Ave, Space 8, Nashville, TN, 37206

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