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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 5:51
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Subject: Is That Jazz Festival in Seattle
- My Performance and the Cell Phone for Audience Interaction
BTW, here is the link to my performance at the
Seattle "Is That Jazz?" festival this last week.
I tried something different this time. I hooked
my cell phone up to my audio interface, so that anything that came out of it
would be proocessed and looped like my guitar. Then I put a sign on the stage
with my cell phone number. As I entered the stage, I instructed the audience
that if they were so inclined they could call my number, make noises,
push buttons, talk, whistle, etc, and that not only would it come through the
PA, but I would interact with it to make it a collaborative
performance.
Well, it was a total success and loads of
fun! I got tons of calls from the approximately 50 or so audiences
members, and all the calls were processed and randomly looped along with
my guitar. There were many times when I was actually playing duo with an
unknown audience member for 2-3 minutes. It was so much fun, and it made me
laugh and smile many times during the performance. Some folks even sent me
text messages with humorous comments, or asking me to do something again,
etc.
Anyway, it was just a test to see if it would
work. I now plan to assign different tones to my text messages and calls,
so that I can write a max/msp patch that will do different things with those
signals, like looping, or turning on a certain effect and so on. I've
already written a patch that will convert a cell phone call into randomly
changing my effect selection. Lots of potential here.
Kris
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