From jason.freeman at music.gatech.edu Tue Nov 6 11:02:47 2007 From: jason.freeman at music.gatech.edu (Jason Freeman) Date: Tue Nov 6 12:01:52 2007 Subject: [dorkbotatl-announce] reminder: tomorrow @ 7:30 pm, dorkbot art and technology forum Message-ID: <4959694E-2893-4A32-BFDF-F846B61B9FDD@music.gatech.edu> [please forward] The next dorkbot-atl meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 7th at 7:30 pm in the Couch Building (music department) at Georgia Tech, in the first floor rehearsal hall. Full details are available at: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/ This month's dorkbot will feature an informal presentation of my new work Flock (for saxophone quartet, dancers, electronic sound, video, and audience participation) in preparation for the piece's premiere at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami in December. I have developed Flock in collaboration with Mark Godfrey, Liubo Borissov, Frank Dellaert, Dan Hou, Justin Berger, and Martin Robinson. Flock is a full evening performance work for saxophone quartet, conceived to directly engage audiences in the composition of music by physically bringing them out of their seats and enfolding them into the creative process. During the performance, the four musicians and up to one hundred audience members move freely around the performance space. A computer vision system determines the locations of the audience members and musicians, and it uses that data to generate performance instructions for the saxophonists, who view them on wireless handheld displays mounted on their instruments. The data also drives the real-time generation of a multi-screen video animation and an electronic soundtrack. More information about Flock is available at: http://www.jasonfreeman.net/flock/ Hope to see you there!