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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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