Glen Walton 9/4/20 Glen Walton 9/4/20

ENVELOP AUDIO WORKSHOP

A seminar on Envelop by Christopher Willits. Envelop is a set of immersive sound apps (placing sound in space by routing to various speakers).

It is also a space in California where people go to experiment with immersive sound.

Since I saw Suzanne Cianni play a quadraphonic set in Bristol I have been hooked on immersive sound. I started experimenting for Polglto Theatre’s Light Pickers work with an octophonic soundscape that swept around the space. There is so much more to play with in this space.

Christopher talked about immersive music bringing people together in the action of listening. It can be a truly stunning experience when done well.

You can now become a member of Envelop! Enjoy great benefits and join our growing community of listeners, collaborators, and producers supporting the social ...

“Envelop’s mission is to unite humanity through profound communal listening experiences. We achieve our mission through community-supported immersive audio venues, inspiring events, educational programs, and free open-source immersive audio software tools. Envelop leads the future of immersive listening, bringing us back to our ancestral connection to sound, and the social-emotional benefits of listening together. ”

— Envelop website

Glen Walton 12/1/19 Glen Walton 12/1/19

Delia Derbyshire - The Doctor Who Theme

Delia Derbyshire - Doctor Who Theme http://neotelevisione.altervista.org http://neotelevisione.altervista.org/files/Doctor-Who.html

Glen Walton 11/1/19 Glen Walton 11/1/19

ADA LOVELACE - THE FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

Ada Lovelace was a most unlikely computer pioneer. In this film, Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada's remarkable life. Born in the early 19th century, Ada was a countess of the realm, a scandalous socialite and an 'enchantress of numbers'.

Glen Walton 10/15/19 Glen Walton 10/15/19

The Expanding Universe by Laurie Spiegel

Sit back, relax & listen!

The Expanding Universe by Laurie Spiegel The Expanding Universe 1980 All Rights: Unseen Worlds Records

Glen Walton 10/1/19 Glen Walton 10/1/19

Daphne Oram: Electronic Music Pioner

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Glen Walton 9/25/19 Glen Walton 9/25/19

Darebin Music Feast! 🎸🍔

Playable Streets is very excited to be presenting SOUNDS EXQUISITE as part of Darebin Music Feast!

Glen Walton 9/15/19 Glen Walton 9/15/19

Maywa Denki's Nonsense Machines

It sounds like nonsense! But really, its' a spark of genius and creativity that gave birth to Maywa Denki - the mechanically inspired musical performance group. Led by Nobumichi Tosa, Maywa Denki is a beautiful collaboration of inventors, mechanics, and musicians. Watch and see the origin story of this supergroup!

Glen Walton 9/1/19 Glen Walton 9/1/19

The Social Lamellaphone

Collaborative music making!

https://laughingsquid.com/the-social-lamellaphone-a-collaborative-musical-instrument-made-from-recycled-street-sweeper-bristles/

Glen Walton 8/15/19 Glen Walton 8/15/19

Suzanne Ciani: America's first female synth hero 🤯 Blowing people's minds on Letterman

A pioneer of electronic music, Suzanne Ciani has made the Buchla 200 synthesiser her own In this short film, she explains her relationship to the instrument, and how it became an expressive tool for her artistic and musical practice. Filmed at Elevation 1049 festival in Gstaad on 2nd February.

Check out this great article about Suzanne Ciani’s career!

Here's my nine minutes of late-night (I meant early-morning) fame on the David Letterman Show when originally broadcasted on NBC. It was produced on August 14, 1980.

Glen Walton 8/1/19 Glen Walton 8/1/19

Project Soli - Skin Based Interface research

Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects. Follow Google ATAP on Twitter for updates on Project Soli: https://twitter.com/GoogleATAP Visit https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/soli-announce to sign up for updates.

Glen Walton 7/15/19 Glen Walton 7/15/19

🌿 Making music with Plants!!

THE PLANTS IS A SITE-SPECIFIC MUSICAL INSTALLATION THAT INVITES PARTICIPANTS TO CREATE THEIR OWN MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS USING UNIQUE DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS... PLA...

Here I will attempt to collect some of the amazing experiments happening that turn plants into musical interfaces.

Playable Streets have developed a public installation called The Plants over several years of experiments in public space.

THE PLANTS IS A SITE-SPECIFIC MUSICAL INSTALLATION THAT INVITES PARTICIPANTS TO CREATE THEIR OWN MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS USING UNIQUE DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS... PLANTS!

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

The installation has evolved a lot since our first experiments, new sounds, new shapes and new plants! Before the COVID lockdowns hit we were working on a new expressive version of ‘The Plants’ installation with Electronics engineer and Playable Streets intern Tony.

The world of plant music:

Human Plant Interactions | Symposium & One Week Project

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD In this episode of Sound Builders, we went to Los Angeles, to meet with Mileece. She's a sonic artist and environmental designer who's developed the technology to give silent seedlings a portal to their own sonic expression. Channeling a plant's sentience into an instrument is no obvious feat.

Glen Walton 7/1/19 Glen Walton 7/1/19

Haptography: Digitizing our sense of touch

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/haptography-digitizing-our-sense-of-touch-katherine-kuchenbecker Can the sense of touch be harnessed with technology? The field of haptics explores the revolutionary: interactive touch technology. At TEDYouth 2012, Katherine Kuchenbecker discusses how haptics has the potential to change fields as disparate as museums, dentistry, and stroke rehabilitation. Talk by Katherine Kuchenbecker.

Glen Walton 6/15/19 Glen Walton 6/15/19

The Science of Touch

In this talk, David Linden explores the science and complexities of touch on human health. David J. Linden, Ph.D., is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory has worked for many years on the cellular substrates of memory storage, and recovery of function after brain injury, among other topcs.

Glen Walton 6/1/19 Glen Walton 6/1/19

Skin based interface from MIT researchers

This movie shows gold leaf temporary tattoos that can be used to control devices through touch created by a group of PhD students and researchers at MIT's Media Lab. The team, led by PhD student Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, designed the DuoSkin transfers to look like gold and silver flash tattoos, popular at music festivals.

Glen Walton 5/15/19 Glen Walton 5/15/19

Pataphysics: Your Favorite Cult Artist’s Favorite Pseudoscience

Read this article on Pataphysics while listening to Robert Wyatt’s Sea Song

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9527-pataphysics-your-favorite-cult-artists-favorite-pseudoscience/

"sea song" by robert wyatt, original record version from rock bottom

Glen Walton 5/7/19 Glen Walton 5/7/19

Collaborative Instruments

Check out this article from Red Bull Music Academy on the history of collaborative instruments!

Collaborative Instruments: An illustrated history of remarkable instruments devised for two or more players https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/07/collaborative-instruments

Glen Walton 4/21/19 Glen Walton 4/21/19

Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good

This New York Times article by Nellie Bowles discusses the saturation of screens in our lives and the way they illustrate class divides.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.amp.html

Glen Walton 10/1/18 Glen Walton 10/1/18

How Music Could Revolutionise Dementia Care

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Check out this great new study led by Melbourne University into the effects of music on people with dementia.

Playable Streets are currently working with Maroondah City Council’s Arts and Cultural Development and Aged and Disability teams to create an 'instrument' that allows participants with dementia and their carers to make music together. More soon! Stay tuned!

Glen Walton 9/28/18 Glen Walton 9/28/18

A Newbie Guide to Ars Electronica Festival

So your off to Ars Electronica festival for the first time? Awesome! After our first time at the festival my wife and I have decided to try and make it an annual pilgrimage to this technology festival in the small town of Linz that has been running since 1979.

The 2018 Ars Electronica Festival takes place from September 6, 2018, to September 10, 2018, in Linz, Austria, with the theme "Error - the Art of Imperfection". Video Edit: Ars Electronica / Vanessa Graf Music: Error Sound / Karl Julian Schmidinger Ars Electronica https://www.aec.at https://www.facebook.com/arselectronica https://www.twitter.com/arselectronica https://www.instagram.com/arselectronica https://www.flickr.com/photos/arselectronica

If you have never been there might be a few little tips that could help out. This is by no means a definitive or official guide, more just some things we found that we really enjoyed and a few things we wish we knew before we got there! - Thanks to Elise who sent me some great tips.

The main venue PostCity (right near the main train station) holds the bulk of the festival and can get very busy on the weekend. It’s pretty chilled on the first day (in our case a Thursday) and a ghost-town on the last day (a Monday for us). You might wanna check out other stuff on the busy weekend days.
If it’s a sunny day have a beer outside at Paul's restaurant next to St. Mary’s cathedral, which is also a venue and will probably have some trippy projection in there.
The tram is free with your festival pass! It says this in the program but we didnt realise till 2 days in!
Walked around all day and now its 11pm and you haven’t had dinner? Gelbes Krokodil is a great cafe in the middle of town open till 1am.
Speaking of cafe’s there are heaps in the main square, we had breakfast at The Bruchner and it was delicious… Also the cafe on the water next to the Lentos Museum is great for a long breakfast.
Ok this is a really specific one, the concerts held at PostCity most nights are great and weird, best seat? next to the sound desk! Get in a little early and you’ve got the best seat in the house!
If you are heading out to the Bruchner University for some talks or sounds demos consider taking the number 50 tram all the way to the end of the line afterwards and have a fancy dinner at Pöstlingberg Schlössl (you’ll need to book). you’ll see an amazing panorama of Linz.
Talking about views be sure to take a walk on the rooftops above the OK Centre (near Krokodil). You’ll walk over a series of buildings and can climb a tower to get a 360 view. Then find the swings near the rooftop waterpark, great place to rest up and plan the rest of the day.
The big festival extravaganza on the river is PACKED!!! Next time we would be sure to get there hours before it started (maybe bring some lunch). But if you, like us, just happen to see it and run down squeezing through the crowds just keep going, your best bet is to walk past the Lentos gallery and get closer to the Brucknerhouse where you should be able to see a bit more.
Check out the best of 8K session at Ars Electronica centre (on most days) then check out the lab downstairs where you can try out some VR.
There is so much more to discover at the festival and you will probably always feel like you missed something! One last thing, if you have time before or after the festival I can recommend getting a boat down the Danube from Melk to Spitz and spend a couple of days in the Wachau Valley (we stayed in a small town called St Michael). Hire some bikes (you can use an app called ‘nextbike’ to find and hire one) and ride from Spitz to Weißenkirchen or further if your feeling fit. You’ll wind through old towns and vineyards with plenty of places to stop for a Reisling or two.
I hope this is helpful, if you have any questions feel free to ask and add anything that you’ve discovered at Ars Electronica.

Glen Walton 8/6/17 Glen Walton 8/6/17

2 weeks in Cowwarr

Just finished two weeks at the amazing Cowwarr Art Space Garden Studio. I spent a lot of time staring into this computer trying to work on a Masters thesis, of course I ended up with more questions than answers. I studied questionnaires and hours of video footage of people interacting with Playable Streets' work (In Touch and PLAYSpace). One observation that I'm particularly interested in is the interaction people had with the other people around the work. Interaction with other other participants create variety in an otherwise limited interactive device (in this case musical plants). This human interaction will be the focus of our next work Reach Out Sounds as part of the Coburg Carnivale. Reach out Sounds uses skin as the musical interface, the act of contact will be the act of music making. Stay tuned, more details to come!