Flue

Bill Hsu

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

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

Abstract:

Program notes: Flue is a structured audio-visual improvisation for three musicians, utilizing live acoustic and electronic sound and interactive animations. A physics-based smoke simulation is influenced by the real-time audio from the musicians' performance. The audio from the performance is analyzed; high-level tempo, spectral and other features are extracted, and sent via Open Sound Control to the animation environment. The smoke trails are also able to coalesce into well- defined symbols and forms, all while moving in a natural-seeming manner consistent with the underlying fluid simulation. Composer(s) Credits: Bill Hsu Instrumentalist(s) Credits: Bill Hsu (electronics, interactive animation), Matt Endahl (piano), Mike Khoury (violin) Artist(s) Biography: Bill Hsu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at San Francisco State University. He has performed in the US, Asia, and Europe, including NIME 2011 (Oslo), Festival art::archive:architectures (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2011), SMC 2009 (Porto), Harvestworks Festival 2009 (New York), Fete Quaqua 2008 (London), MIX Festival 2007 and 2009 (New York), NIME 2007 (New York), Stimme+ 2006 (ZKM, Karlsruhe), and the First Hong Kong Improvised Performance Festival 2005. Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~whsu/art.html Matt Endahl (b. 1985) is an improvising pianist based in Ann Arbor, MI. A student of Geri Allen and Ed Sarath at the University of Michigan, Matt is an active performer and organizer, having performed in a wide variety of settings, from Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" to freeform solo electronic sets. Matt has taught jazz piano at Hillsdale College since 2008. http://www.myspace.com/mattendahl Mike Khoury was born in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan in 1969. As the son of visual artist Sari Khoury, he was exposed to various forms of visual arts and creative musical forms. Khoury is Palestinian. Khoury's collaborators often include Leyya Tawil (dance), Ben Hall (percussion), Christopher Riggs (guitar), and Andrew Coltrane (sound manipulation). He has performed and recorded with Faruq Z. Bey, Dennis Gonzalez, Luc Houtkamp, Maury Coles, Jack Wright, Graveyards, John Butcher, Gino Robair, Gunda Gottschalk, and Le Quan Ninh. Khoury runs the Entropy Stereo music label where he focuses on issuing new and archival music by challenging artists. His studies include those with John Lindberg, Gerald Cleaver, and composer/violinist David Litven. Khoury is the author of a chapter on Egyptian-American composer Halim El-Dabh in a forthcoming anthology on the Arab avant garde, published by Wesleyan University Press. Website: http://www.myspace.com/michaelkhoury Concert Venue and Time: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Tuesday May 22, 7:00pm

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @incollection{nime2012-music-Hsu2012,
 abstract = {Program notes:

\emph{Flue} is a structured audio-visual improvisation for three musicians, utilizing live acoustic and electronic sound and interactive animations. A physics-based smoke simulation is influenced by the real-time audio from the musicians' performance. The audio from the performance is analyzed; high-level tempo, spectral and other features are extracted, and sent via Open Sound Control to the animation environment. The smoke trails are also able to coalesce into well- defined symbols and forms, all while moving in a natural-seeming manner consistent with the underlying fluid simulation.

Composer(s) Credits:

Bill Hsu

Instrumentalist(s) Credits:

Bill Hsu (electronics, interactive animation), Matt Endahl (piano), Mike Khoury (violin)

Artist(s) Biography:

Bill Hsu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at San Francisco State University. He has performed in the US, Asia, and Europe, including NIME 2011 (Oslo), Festival art::archive:architectures (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2011), SMC 2009 (Porto), Harvestworks Festival 2009 (New York), Fete Quaqua 2008 (London), MIX Festival 2007 and 2009 (New York), NIME 2007 (New York), Stimme+ 2006 (ZKM, Karlsruhe), and the First Hong Kong Improvised Performance Festival 2005. Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~whsu/art.html

Matt Endahl (b. 1985) is an improvising pianist based in Ann Arbor, MI. A student of Geri Allen and Ed Sarath at the University of Michigan, Matt is an active performer and organizer, having performed in a wide variety of settings, from Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" to freeform solo electronic sets. Matt has taught jazz piano at Hillsdale College since 2008. http://www.myspace.com/mattendahl

Mike Khoury was born in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan in 1969. As the son of visual artist Sari Khoury, he was exposed to various forms of visual arts and creative musical forms. Khoury is Palestinian.
Khoury's collaborators often include Leyya Tawil (dance), Ben Hall (percussion), Christopher Riggs (guitar), and Andrew Coltrane (sound manipulation). He has performed and recorded with Faruq Z. Bey, Dennis Gonzalez, Luc Houtkamp, Maury Coles, Jack Wright, Graveyards, John Butcher, Gino Robair, Gunda Gottschalk, and Le Quan Ninh.
Khoury runs the Entropy Stereo music label where he focuses on issuing new and archival music by challenging artists. His studies include those with John Lindberg, Gerald Cleaver, and composer/violinist David Litven. Khoury is the author of a chapter on Egyptian-American composer Halim El-Dabh in a forthcoming anthology on the Arab avant garde, published by Wesleyan University Press. Website: http://www.myspace.com/michaelkhoury

Concert Venue and Time: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Tuesday May 22, 7:00pm},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.},
 author = {Bill Hsu},
 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 = {Flue},
 year = {2012}
}