Dear ThCl clubbers and friends,
Thursday Club Spring season presents:
Variable 4: A dynamical composition for weather systems James Bulley and
Daniel Jones
Thursday 10th March
Since the earliest civilizations, a complex relationship has existed
between human society and the weather systems that define the world
around us. We make sense of seasonal cycles through rituals and
folklore, passing down ways of harnessing the natural elements whilst
constructing defenses against those which threaten our existence.
Variable 4 transforms these weather patterns into a living musical
composition with the same unpredictability as the elements themselves.
Using meteorological sensors connected to a custom software environment
developed by the artists, the wild weather conditions of the Kent
coastland act as composer, navigating through a map of 24 specifically
written movements. Every aspect of the piece, from broad harmonic
progressions down to individual notes and timbres, is influenced by
changes in the environment: wind speed, rainfall, solar radiation,
humidity, tropospheric variance, temperature, and more.
The resultant composition was performed over a 24 hour duration through a
field of 8 speakers integrated into the landscape between midday May 22nd
to midday May 23rd 2010 on the headland of Dungeness, UK. Also supported
by Campbell Scientific.
James Bulley is asSound Artist, composer and PhD Researcher in the Music
department at Goldsmiths. His interests include sonification, algorithmic
composition and interactivity with music systems.
http://jamesjbulley.com/soundworks.html
Daniel Jones is a UK based artist, designer and programmer based at
Goldsmiths, Department of Computing where is completing his PhD. Most of
his projects found on his website http://www.erase.net/ revolve around the
intersections between art and science, treating the creative process as a
mode of inquiry.
http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/licht.html
Venue: 3/4, Ground floor, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths University of
London
Cost: Free to all
Date: 10th March 2011
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
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Club convenor: Professor Janis Jefferies
Department: Computing (Digital Studios)
Google map: Ben Pimlott Building St. James, New Cross London SE14 6NW
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DATES FOR THE DIARY
http://doc.gold.ac.uk/thethursdayclub/
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TO COME
17th March 2011, 6pm - 8pm
Hedva Eltanani:
Questioning Performing with Technologies as a New Audience Experience
Thursday Club and Graduate School
24th March 2011, 6pm - 6pm
Live performance: Icarus generative music making
Thursday Club and Graduate School
31st March 2011, 6pm - 8pm
Genetic Moo: Imagined Future Evolutions
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: MAY/JUNE 2011
We will have 3 events for the summer term
May 5th will host a visiting performer/scholar from Australia
May 12th will feature a live performance
June 9th will be an extraordinary session with Jeremy Pilcher on art, law
and the internet
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