Alexander Chen is turning into Google’s resident composer. In his latest experiment, he uses the controversial-but-buzzed-about Google Glass wearable tech as a video source for making music. Layering together a series of loops of his solo viola playing, he weaves a contemplative, modal composition. It’s a sort of overdubbed chamber ensemble in video. (The spare, parallel writing is to me reminiscent of a Copland string quartet.)
There’s nothing here that couldn’t be done with a head-mounted camera, but perhaps that’s the lesson. In our camera sensor-filled lives, a big part of the design statement Glass makes is the vision of a point-of-view video, seeing the world digitally as if through our own eyes. And there’s something a bit intimate about seeing the instrument, as his kid wanders around the room.
Thanks, Alex.
http://work.chenalexander.com/
Previously:
Bach Cello Suite No. 1, Visualized in Sweeping Arcs, and the Math Beneath
At Music Hack Day, Amidst Listening Interfaces, Novel Performance Control a Winner
Music Made with NYC Subway Schedules; HTML5+Flash, Q+A with Artist-Developer
I want Glass mostly for the 1st person view recording… can’t wait.
I want Glass mostly for the 1st person view recording… can’t wait.
I want Glass mostly for the 1st person view recording… can’t wait.
Wonder if this would work with your instrument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld4uuNxEXZQ
Its a trip through a canyon patterned after Native American blankets where turquoise colored
water streams below in sync the music in addition to the canyon and mountain walls
alongside that depict the symmetry of the instrumental parts…
Wonder if this would work with your instrument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld4uuNxEXZQ
Its a trip through a canyon patterned after Native American blankets where turquoise colored
water streams below in sync the music in addition to the canyon and mountain walls
alongside that depict the symmetry of the instrumental parts…
Wonder if this would work with your instrument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld4uuNxEXZQ
Its a trip through a canyon patterned after Native American blankets where turquoise colored
water streams below in sync the music in addition to the canyon and mountain walls
alongside that depict the symmetry of the instrumental parts…