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"The model kit" is an interactive spatial audio performance.The performers with musical instruments are placed in different places of the big space. The music score consists of a small model for improvisation that should be repeated and the scheme for interaction with the sound that performer hears. The listeners can participate in the performance by using the web application on their smartphones and tablets (or laptops etc). The listener can record the sound of the instrument that is being played and then play it back through any of seven loudspeakers. The qr codes near all the performers were used to get a fast access to the appropriate web page.The interactive part is done with Max. The patch polls a text file on a web server with information about all events. The web app is very simple and is done with jQuerymobile and a simple php script.Performed on June 15,16 2013 in Manezh exhibition hall, Moscow, Russia as part of the project "The trajectory of sound", idea of the project - Dmitri Kourliandski.Score and programming: Alex Nadzharov

Performed by Moscow Contemporary Music EnsembleIvan Bushuev - flutes, Oleg Tantsov - clarinets, Vladislav Pesin - violin, Ilya Rubinstein - cello, Nikolay Gorshkov - double bass, Dmitry Vlasik - percussion, Mikhail Komarov - percussion

MCME ensemble directed by Viktoria Korshunova.

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"The model kit" interactive spatial performance

Lilli Wessling Hart

Cycling '74

Nathan Bowen will be leading one of nine community-driven workshops at Expo '74 in Brooklyn this October. Read on for more information about his workshop and some history of his work.

Mobile Phones and Max: Simple Ways to Make Interactive and Collaborative Music

This workshop aims to introduce some simple applications for smart phones that integrate very well with the Max environment.  In the days prior to smart phones, getting keypresses from phones to integrate with Max required a lot of extra programming via Asterisk or other telephony platforms. With smart phones now featuring WiFi capability, getting your phone to talk to Max via a WiFi LAN is now very simple to do.  This opens the door for the phone to serve as a controller, and via OpenSoundControl, there is a very low latency.  In this workshop we'll create a network band driven by mobile phones.  TouchOSC, OSCemote, c74, and other apps will be featured.  As TouchOSC is available for both iOS and Android platforms, this app will be highlighted.

To participate in this workshop, you will need a laptop with Max and, optionally, a smart phone (iPhone or Android phones work best) with TouchOSC app (downloaded onto your device) or comparable OSC-equipped apps.

I'd say that I am foremost a composer, but since being introduced to Max I've also become an instrument builder.  In my graduate work at the CUNY Graduate Center I began to focus on the use of mobile phones as performance devices, particularly in non-linear networked and collaborative situations.  In looking for ways to engage non-musicians in some way other than through passive consumption, mobile phones seem to have unique potential as controllers because nearly everyone has one.

As of late I've been pretty consumed with my dissertation while also teaching fulltime at Moorpark College.  Here and there I've done projects with MELD Danceworks, the Handcart Ensemble, the Intermedia Arts Group, 60x60, and have served on the staff of NYCEMF.

I started using Max in early 2006.  I was intrigued by the prospect of realtime performance being incorporated into my compositions.  At the time I was studying composition with Amnon Wolman at Brooklyn College via the Graduate Center, and he had me get in touch with Hans Tammen at Harvestworks.  I served as an intern and took classes from Matthew Ostrowski, Luke DuBois, and tried to sit in on any other activities going on there. Right from the start I was blown away by the artistic potential Max had. 

What technology or person's work intrigues you most right now?

I've been pretty keen to watch what's going on both at Stanford and Michigan with their respective Mobile Phone Orchestras, so Ge Wang and Georg Essl are pretty intriguing to me.  Atau Tanaka has been very kind as a contact and I really admire his work and dedication in mobile arts.  Frauke Behrendt has done tremendous research in mobile music as has Sumanth Gopinath.  Kiri Miller's research on Rock Band and Guitar Hero is fascinating too.

I'm just now trying to get a grip on musical gesture research and how to make use of accelerometers and other sensor data in meaningful ways.  I feel like I have so much to learn, and there seems to be a large corpus of work that's been done. 

Kinect hacks also are pretty tantalizing.  I'm very excited to see what people are doing with it in the coming years.  I love the collective effort to help make digital music-making a physical experience.

What is the most exciting part of attending Expo '74?

I'm mostly excited to see what else is going on, in hopes of absorbing as much knowledge and inspiration as possible.  Though I don't post on the Max forum often, I have benefited so much from the wisdom of others, so  I'm hoping to contribute to the community at Expo '74. Also, Max 6 sounds great, so I'm looking forward to a solid intro.

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Nathan Bowen talks about his Expo '74 workshop.

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Mobile Phones and Max

Rob Ramirez

The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and parking lots so there's not much arable land and the soil is contaminated. So Maundu doesn't use soil. Instead he's growing plants using fish and circulating water.
It's called aquaponics- a gardening system that combines hydroponics (water-based planting) and aquaculture (fish farming). It's been hailed as the future of farming: it uses less water (up to 90% less than traditional gardening), doesn't attract soil-based bugs and produces two types of produce (both plants and fish).
Aquaponics has become popular in recent years among urban gardeners and DIY tinkerers, but Maundu- who is trained in industrial robotics- has taken the agricultural craft one step further and made his gardens smart. Using sensors (to detect water level, pH and temperature), microprocessors (mostly the open-source Arduino microcontroller), relay cards, clouds and social media networks (Twitter and Facebook), Maundu has programmed his gardens to tweet when there's a problem (e.g. not enough water) or when there's news (e.g. an over-abundance of food to share).
Maundu himself ran from agriculture in his native Kenya- where he saw it as a struggle for land, water and resources. This changed when he realized he could farm without soil and with little water via aquaponics and that he could apply his robotics background to farming. Today he runs Kijani Grows ("Kijani" is Swahili for green), a small startup that designs and sells custom aquaponics systems for growing food and attempts to explore new frontiers of computer-controlled gardening. Maundu believes that by putting gardens online, especially in places like West Oakland (where his solar-powered gardens are totally off the grid), it's the only way to make sure that farming remains viable to the next generation of urban youth.

More info on original story: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/internet-food-arduino-based-urban-aquaponics-in-oakland/

Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland

Deep in Cycling 74's backyard, Eric Maundu is doing wonderful things with an Arduino controlled hydroponic plant growing system. The possibilities for our tools are endless!

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