premiering live
Sunday April 23rd, 3-5pm
MoFoPro's custom hardware
and software system is a melange of hi and lo technologies both bleeding edge
and obsolete. By freely entangling audio, video and control signals with a
fistful of adapters and alligator clips, the trio customizes the performance
system for each show in the very act of loading the unwieldy rig into the
venue.
Benton-C warps Dafna and Alexander's
music through ScopeMate (programmer: Stephan Moore) to excite old O'scopes and
a heavy TV. Dafna Naphtali does
real-time audio processing using Max/MSP/Jitter on live sounds, Alexander
Waterman's cello and electronics, her own voice, on pre-processed audio from
her laptop, as well as the oscillating cries from Benton's video.
Additionally, Dafna will take video input
from images of Benton's work and Alex's cello playing to use as a control source
for some of her audio processes,
and also to do pitch and attack analysis on the cello playing to give
Alex a control source that he can use to control aspects of the sound and of
the video being created. In the
image and with inspiration of the seminal California computer music group The
Hub, we will share information and process each other's work and create a
collaborative interplay of sound music image and electronic soul.
The 3rd International Circuit Bending
Festival will be April 19-23rd, with an opening party featuring R. Luke DuBois
with Matthew Ostrowski. Also
appearing Sunday will be John Morton with his analog and digitally bent and
modified music boxes.
The premiere performance of MoFoPro has
been made possible in part through funding from the Experimental TV center and
Harvestworks.
See http://www.bentfestival.org/ for
more information about the artists and performances and advance tickets.