Stelaextraction

Alexander Dupuis

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2012
• Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

Abstract:

Program notes: Stelaextraction uses the electronic extension capabilities of the Yerbanaut to construct a musical composition through self-reference across different timescales. The Yerbanaut is a custom electro-acoustic kalimba built from a yerba mate gourd, with the tines placed in a circular pattern rather than the usual horizontal arrangement. Its sensors are intended to make use of this new arrangement, with force-sensitive buttons giving the otherwise inert left hand expressive capabilities, and a distance sensor allowing the right hand's motion to determine aspects of the processing. In Stelaextraction, all acoustic and processed sounds are recorded to a single buffer, the contents of which can be scrubbed through using the right hand's distance sensor. In this way, past musical gestures can be explored and then re-explored, with the recursive processing developing self-similar musical patterns over the course of the piece. Composer(s) Credits: Alexander Dupuis Instrumentalist(s) Credits: Alexander Dupuis (Yerbanaut) Artist(s) Biography: Alexander Dupuis develops real-time audiovisual feedback systems mediated by performers, sensors, musicians, matrices, bodies, scores, games, and environments. He also composes, arranges and performs sounds for guitars, liturgies, chamber groups, horse duos, microwave cookbooks, and celebrity voices. He graduated from Brown University's MEME program as an undergraduate in 2010, and is now in his second year of the Digital Musics masters program at Dartmouth College. Concert Venue and Time: Necto, Wednesday May 23, 9:00pm

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @incollection{nime2012-music-Dupuis2012,
 abstract = {Program notes:

\emph{Stelaextraction} uses the electronic extension capabilities of the Yerbanaut to construct a musical composition through self-reference across different timescales. The Yerbanaut is a custom electro-acoustic kalimba built from a yerba mate gourd, with the tines placed in a circular pattern rather than the usual horizontal arrangement. Its sensors are intended to make use of this new arrangement, with force-sensitive buttons giving the otherwise inert left hand expressive capabilities, and a distance sensor allowing the right hand's motion to determine aspects of the processing. In Stelaextraction, all acoustic and processed sounds are recorded to a single buffer, the contents of which can be scrubbed through using the right hand's distance sensor. In this way, past musical gestures can be explored and then re-explored, with the recursive processing developing self-similar musical patterns over the course of the piece.

Composer(s) Credits:

Alexander Dupuis

Instrumentalist(s) Credits:

Alexander Dupuis (Yerbanaut)

Artist(s) Biography:

Alexander Dupuis develops real-time audiovisual feedback systems mediated by performers, sensors, musicians, matrices, bodies, scores, games, and environments. He also composes, arranges and performs sounds for guitars, liturgies, chamber groups, horse duos, microwave cookbooks, and celebrity voices. He graduated from Brown University's MEME program as an undergraduate in 2010, and is now in his second year of the Digital Musics masters program at Dartmouth College.

Concert Venue and Time: Necto, Wednesday May 23, 9:00pm},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.},
 author = {Alexander Dupuis},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 day = {21-23},
 editor = {Georg Essl and Brent Gillespie and Michael Gurevich and Sile O'Modhrain},
 month = {May},
 publisher = {Electrical Engineering \& Computer Science and Performing Arts Technology, University of Michigan},
 title = {Stelaextraction},
 year = {2012}
}