Re: Is That Jazz Festival in Seattle - My Performance and the Cell Phone for Audience Interaction

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Very interesting idea! Can't wait to hear what installation context
you will come up with for including this! :-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com



On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Krispen Hartung
<info@krispenhartung.com> wrote:
> BTW, here is the link to my performance at the Seattle "Is That Jazz?"
> festival this last week.
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> http://www.box.net/shared/a0gxc61yzq
>
> 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
> www.krispenhartung.com
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