Description

Sandboxes AVC was an audio-visual collaborative performance illustrating the concept of the shared artistic playspace of the Sandbox.

It was performed live on stage with Teresa Almeida at the Loews Theater at the Tisch School of Art, New York University.

Teresa synthesized video imagery using a modified version of my Gesture Painter software. Meanwhile, I generated a soundscape using unconventional analog audio sources captured and routed through signal processing, sampling, and mixing hardware.

This performance was a demonstration of my future goal to create a hardware-software platform for audio-visual play and collaboration.

Software provided the framework within which Teresa synthesized video. Hardware provded my framework for sound. In both cases it was through the manipulation of parameters exposed within each system that the specific creative results were achieved.

The Gesture Painter is one framework for synthesizing video. The Sandboxes is another, providing a completely different visualization. Furthermore, the Sandboxes utilize the internet to share activities across individual devices to achieve integrated collaboration.

In their future release, a network of Sandboxes will provide a hardware- software framework for collaboration. They will share control data across the entire network, while individual Sandboxes will interface with custom software and hardware frameworks to provide various possibilites for audio-visual creation.