[dorkbotatl-announce] wed 11/7 @ 7:30 pm: dorkbot art and technology forum

[Jason Freeman]

[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 downstairs rehearsal hall. Please note that the start time  
(7:30 pm) and the location within the Couch Building (downstairs  
rehearsal hall) are different than usual this month.

Full details are available at:

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/

This month's dorkbot will feature an informal performance 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.

The project has evolved considerably since last May's "test"  
presentation at Dorkbot; your feedback at that time was critical in  
pushing development of the work forward. We are excited to show it to  
you again and get some additional feedback.

More information about Flock is available at:

http://www.jasonfreeman.net/flock/