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Forum – Week 3 – “Presentations, Round One” – 20/03/08

After a minor scuffle to get the audio-visual set-up online this weeks ‘student controlled’ forum was an entertaining 2 hours. Jake’s piece was punchier, being up close and personal in this setting, and more engaging than its presentation at the noisy venue used for Ear Poke last year.

Sanad’s Middle Eastern flavoured, sample driven piece gave a similar impression. It was pleasing to explore those vocal lines and well-recorded samples in a silent listening forum. Of special interest was the freeware program ‘Reaper’ that all PC users present will no doubt be downloading soon.

John’s ‘Chromos’ and ‘Music Technology Blues’ received appropriately contrasting responses. Once again, it’s nice to have the opportunity to hear these works loud and clean (Mac background noise excluded naturally).

Coming back to the Max/MSP programming language from a four month hiatus was not as difficult as I thought. I hope I gave some insight into its possibilities to the newly initiated.

Peter enthralled us with his unique blend of Bidule music for the infliction of sonic pain. Someone mentioned his Ear Poke performance as being the work of a true ‘Music Tech Rebel’, so he must be aiming for consistency.


Reference:

Whittington, Stephen. “Presentations, Round One”. Forum presented at EMU Space, Level 5, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 20th of March 2008.

posted by David J Dowling @ 3:00 PM