2006, Filament Traverse Theatre
A new version of Filament was comissioned for a staircase in Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. The installation ran from 29th October to end of November 2006 as part of Traverse Cubed, http://www.traverse.co.uk/show_detail.php?id=398
As audiences head down to see a play, the copper wire curtain is switched on and will pre-mix sounds extracted from play rehearsals.
On the 29th October, there was a live performance projected into the theatre.
This project was supported by http://www.7hings.co.uk, an online music distribution podcast.
Martin Parker: Filament Live at Cubed
Live performance at Traverse Cubed, October 2006. Recorded, maximised and mastered by Yann Seznec and Dimitris Miyakis. A slightly higher quality mp3 version of this track resides here; http://www.seventhings.co.uk/UserFiles/File/Martin_Parker_Filament.mp3
More information about the 7hings event here; http://www.seventhings.co.uk/en/news.php?id=41
12stars_loop
Filament, Traverse Theatre, October - November 2006. Recording of the copperwire curtain in action with sounds from theatre company 12 Stars
12stars_gestures
Filament, Traverse Theatre, October - November 2006.
Sounds of gestures from the installation playing sounds collected from the Theatre Company 12 Stars.
12stars_Chord
Filament, Traverse Theatre, October-November 2006. This is a sound example of a solid chord, generated from micro-particles of voices from four actors. This is the 'state' the installation was left in at one point. The end of the section shows what sound was like after the first interaction for some time.
Filament back stage
Filament is based around a hacked USB dance mat. The internal board of the dancemat is plugged into a computer's USB port and numbers are collected in MaxMSP via the HI object (HI = Human Interface, a semi-universal set of device drivers that allow access to data from multiple human interface devices such as mice, keyboards and joysticks.) In order to make connection between the real world cables and the dancemat hardware easier, I asked Vangelis Lympouridis to graft an ethernet port onto the dancemat so that universally available Ethernet cable could easily be connected to the curtain of copper wires.
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This is short clip showing the backstage elements of the installation. The cables run up to a computer that detects triggers from the copper wires. These trigger premix the sound of the installation in various chaotic ways.
Filament Traverse video 01
Video of Filament in action. Sound is from live video camera and therefore of poor quality.