Mike Brinker

Perry Final #3

Susana mentioned a project she wanted to do earlier involving sound, pictures and piano's. I have been toying with the idea of a similar piece that would incorporate much of the same imagery, yet would give more information about the performer and their personal history. Imagine for a moment...

A small midi keyboard at which one person sits, playing. As they play, an image is projected onto a nearby wall that the performer and audience can see. Each image is tied to a key on the keyboard and so is a sample sound. As the performer plays, the images shift and change with each key, as does the noise. The noise itself is random, but is a localized database of sounds involving a certain geographic location.

So, before the player even begins playing notes, they must tell the system where they are from. This could be as simple as picking from a list of city's, states, countries and then playing.

The idea is to give the audience and the performer a little more in depth knowledge about their own existance as well as someone elses, more of a nostaglia trip for them, but also for a viewing audience. I think this project could have unlimited boundaries.