PLOrk Beat Science

ge · Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Palo Alto, CA

PLOrk Beat Science
"An Adventure in Flute and HyPLOrkussion"

Performed and composed by Rebecca Fiebrink and Ge Wang.

An electro-acoustic structured improvisation for 1 flute, 2 humans, 5 laptops, 5 pressure-sensitive finger drum pads, and 30 audio channels distributed among 5 hemispherical speakers.

(software system implemented in ChucK)

http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/beatscience/

Let us know of your thoughts. Thanks!

Rebecca and Ge!

Kassen · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:24 am Post subject:

I think you're crazy :-p

Aside from that I like it. Very nice and original setup as well. It seems to me that the way you are sitting next to eachother is very conductive to communication which in turn helps the musical structure a lot. I watched the smaller video, I think I'll watch it again on the larger later.

kijjaz · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject:

wow! hoooo....
i still haven't got time to download the video, but have listened to the whole mp3.
it's so exciting hahhahhahah..

i really like how it flows.
the flute is so touching..
the drone is amazing .. very deep and beautiful ..
and the tabla beat work is so gorgeous.

^_^ .. and it's good meditative stuff for me ^_^..

blue hell · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject:

Nice piece ! well done

ge · Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Palo Alto, CA

Thanks for your encouraging feedback. We hope and plan to continue evolving the piece and performance, as well as post new performances on the plork beat science. As always, we are open to suggestions and diatribes.

Thanks again!

kijjaz · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

more suggestions from me:

i wanna hear an acoustic instrument jamming when the beat starts also..
maybe starting with main motif that repeats within the meter of the music
(just like playing a raga..)
and improvising within the meter..

i'd like to hear a question & answer between instruments also..
for example.. trade-4 / trade-2 / any kind of trade between flute & percussion.

it'd be an exciting part & it'd be fun to improvise on.
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one fun idea i have in mind now is something more polyrhythmic..
but it might be harder to program... hmm.

i hope i'll hear more ideas from this project.
all is cool now anyway!
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maybe we can add a R&B boyband vocalist.. lol
just kidding but i really mean it hahah.
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oh hey and one another idea: (but definitely harder to program)
is.. making some of the percussion part play according to the live flute sound simultenously..
hmm it might use more analytical algorithm..
but i think it must be very cool to have a module that can evolve by itself with the sound of the flute..

heheh actually this thing is too hard for me but it'd be cool to have such a module...
especially for a flute solo part.

ge · Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Palo Alto, CA

sir honey · Joined: Aug 04, 2006 Posts: 36 Location: NY

I agree, this piece (and its performance) are great!

Your work is inspiring.

I've done a bit of programming in pd that analyzes signal amplitude into the adc, and makes real-time adjustments to the patch based on this averaged amplitude data.

Is there a way to poll the adc (for amplitude) in ChucK to do similar types of operations? I'd like to use ChucK to perform live avant-electronic music like I'm currently doing with puredata.

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ge · Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Palo Alto, CA

majutsu · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:45 am Post subject:

very nice piece!

Strong work,

there seems to be a synergistic energy in the room Wink