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Media Release
Electronic music duo to perform in USA
23 June 2006
Professor Julian Knowles, Head of the School of Music and Drama is soon to commence a series of performances at three high-profile festivals and conferences in Australia and in the USA as part of an innovative electronic music duo with vocalist and electronic music artist Donna Hewitt .
Drawing upon the musical language of intelligent dance music, post-digital music and VJ culture, Julian Knowles will be performing live music and video from two laptop computers and Donna Hewitt will perform with her sensor-based microphone stand (the e-mic) which allows her to manipulate her voice in real time via a computer. The sensors include pressure sensors, distance sensors, tilt sensors, and ribbon sensors. These capture the gestures of the vocal performer and the data is sent to a computer to creatively transform the sound of the voice in real-time. Increases in computer speeds over the last five years have provided musicians with the opportunity to undertake sophisticated audio and video processing live in concert, providing the opportunity to explore complex relationships between sound and image via gestural input from performers and computer to computer data exchange. The customised software and hardware for the e-mic was funded by an Australia Council for the Arts Music Board grant initiative focusing on new instrument design.
The first performances are in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne as part of the 7th Liquid Architecture Festival, a national touring festival of new music and sound art. These dates are interspersed with a performance in Adelaide as part of the 2006 Australasian Computer Music Conference, and followed up by a performance at Multidimensionality the 2006 International Computer Music Conference in New Orleans, USA. Julian Knowles and Donna Hewitt's work 'Nodule' was selected by international peers for the official concert series from more than 550 music entries from around the world.
Performance dates and further information >
Liquid Architecture 7
Brisbane (July 1), Sydney (July 6), Melbourne (July 15)
http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
Australasian Computer Music Conference, University of Adelaide
Adelaide (July 12)
http://www.acmc06.org/
International Computer Music Conference
New Orleans, USA (November 6-11)
http://www.icmc2006.org/
The e-mic (Extended Microphone Interface Controller)
http://www.clatterbox.net.au/instruments_more.php?id=3_0_4_0_M
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