PØLARITIES
I. PØLARITIES: Remembrance of a Past Future
Remembrance of a Past Future is a work in progress. this 5 min animation is an excerpt discussing our current understanding of a world in flux. The work is a narrative animated short discussing the loss of utopian ideals and the realization of a future where our species is in parallel,, do to excessive consumption of our planets natural resources.
II. PØLARITIES: In The Twilight of a Polar Evening
As we are seeing the melting of the polar caps of our planet coupled with fires in the polar regions seen for the first time in 10,000 years, we also see a society with sharply increased political divisions. The dream of networked technologies was to bring societies together, to connect communities across the globe. Instead, we are seeing technologies used as a force of division, a force of polarization. This is coupled with the dramatic acceleration in fossil fuel consumption is exacerbating the impact that humans have on our environment. This work is part of a larger body of works titled Polarities exploring the impacts of technology on our communities and on our environment.
III. PØLARITIES: Your Reflection In Myself
One of the principal complications in the performance of electro-acoustic music is the need for complex and large sound systems. Working with minimal hardware, P0LARITIES: YOUR REFLECTION IN MYSELF utilizes mobile phone technology and serves as a robust platform for electro-acoustic performance through lightweight and universal hardware installation. The final work resulted in an electroacoustic composition for two percussionists and augmented drums with iOS and LibPD. Hybridizing and augmenting traditional musical instruments provides a compelling path forward, but is restricted to either custom instruments or massive computational infrastructure. P0LARITIES: YOUR REFLECTION IN MYSELF acts as a proof of concept for future explorations in the distribution of electro-acoustic music and media artworks by augmenting with mobile phone hardware.
photo credit: Kevin Todora/Dallas Contemporary
Please contact Andrew Blanton: andrew[at]andrewblanton[dot]com if you are interested in the software, score, or performance of this work.
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footnotes:
[1] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/iphone/iphone-faq/iphone-processor-types.html Accessed November 24, 2019
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple-designed_processors Accessed November 24, 2019
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[5] https://www.korg.com/us/products/tuners/cm_200/ Accessed November 24, 2019
[6] http://designingsound.org/2013/09/19/interview-peter-brinkmann-libpd/
[7] Peter Brinkmann: Making Musical Apps - Real-time Audio Synthesis on Android and iOS. O'Reilly 2012, ISBN 978-1-449-31490-3, pp. I-VIII, 1-109
[8] David Zicarelli, Gregory Taylor, Joshua Kit Clayton, jhno, RichardDudas, R. Luke DuBois, Andrew Pask: MSP Reference Manual. Cycling74 2005. pp. 411-414
[10] https://openframeworks.cc/
[11] https://unity.com/