Live performance, Filmhouse, Edinburgh 7th November 2009

‘One can say that every narrative feature film has been essentially the same since 1906 and the self-standardizing storyline has become a language in itself which we expect to read in any sequence of moving images. In Just One Kiss – The Fall Of Ned Kelly I have attempted to invoke our interpretive faculties to construct this meta story out of unrelated found footage images.’
Sami van Ingen

In response to Sami’s film and the ideas behind it, we took as source material a musical work that also dates from 1906: Charles Ives’ “Central Park in the Dark”.  This 8-minute piece has been stretched out to match the duration of the film and we’re using it to tether Sami’s storytelling to the other sounds that we’ve gathered to play over and around the images.

We didn’t just choose “Central Park in the Dark” because it was written in the same year as “The Fall of Ned Kelly”. The piece is a particularly bold experiment in musical form, constructed as it is from several sound worlds (pieces) that overlap and pass over one another as the music goes on. It makes a plausible case for resisting the conventional musical shapes that became so well established and familiar in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.  As Sami’s work attempts to test its own idea, that we can follow the same story through any collection of images, Ives’ piece tests our ability to follow musical layers when they are superimposed.

In the spirit of this film, which is composed of references from across the history of moving image, our soundtrack is made of borrowed and stolen sounds, mostly sourced from YouTube.   Several quotes are culturally iconic and serve to annotate the images in a different way to the inter-titles.  It is a confusing mush, carefully rehearsed and improvised on the spot.

Thanks to Kim Knowles for inviting us to be involved in this project and the Filmhouse staff for letting us loose on their sound system.
Martin Parker  www.tinpark.com
Owen Green  www.owengreen.net

The Story So Far, 8 min 15 sec

Colour, stereo, 2008

Screening copies DV, Beta SP, DVD
A video by Rob Kennedy, Martin Parker and Sue Tompkins

An Artist’s Film & Video production supported by The National Lottery® through Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen.

Screenings:

Upgrade!, New Media Scotland, CCA, Glasgow 2008
Backup_festival Forum, Weimar, Germany, 2008
‘I relish  your balderdash’, Location One, NY, NY, USA 2008

www.michael-edwards.org/lapslap/mp3/not-cheddar-but-taster.mp3
not cheddar but from itch, July 2008

lapslap is a free improvisation trio with Michael Edwards, Karin Schistek and me.

Together we make well formed music in real-time with computers and instruments.
We’ve released two records on Leo Records so far; itch and scratch.
Check us out at www.lapslap.net

Martin Parker, Michael Edwards and Karin Schistek recording in September 2007

TubeSetup

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July 6th 2006
Network Concert: circular breathing
Hosted by T-U-B-E Munich http://www.t-u-b-e.de

6pm (Reykjavik) GMT | Martin Parker | Harmonica, live electronics
7pm (Glasgow) BST | Pete Dowling | Sax, live electronics
8pm (Munich) CEST | Christoph Reiserer | Sax, live electronics

Three musicians played together simulataneously in Reykjavik, Glasgow and Munich. Crossing three timezones we attempted to simulate circular breathing, a technique used by saxophone players enabling them to play continuously for long periods of time. A sound began in Munich, traveled to Glasgow and then continued to Reykjavik before being sent back to Munich.

The names of our audience members were different in each country. We invited audience members to type names into our name sampler software. Each name was used to generate a sequence of notes that were unique in each country.

Christoph Reiserer http://www.t-u-b-e.de
Pete Dowling http://www.steadykammer.net
Martin Parker http://www.tinpark.com

Streaming was achieved using the T-U-B-E VST plugin by Dr. Jorg Stelkens http://www.stelkens.de/

I developed a wrapper for the plugin which is an OSX only standalone application. It was produced with research I developed using a research and development award from ALT-W. More details below;

T-U-B-E HOST PLUGIN wrapper;

INSTRUCTIONS The T-U-B-E plugin is quite CPU intensive so it is difficult to use the network and do lots of fancy audio processing on the same machine.
This plugin wrapper is designed to allow you to run the tube plug on one system and send audio for processing on another machine. It should work on any OSX 10.4.6 machine, best to use two pro- audio cards or a digital connection to avoid quality loss between the two machines. You can also record the output and input to disk for post-performance remixing and mastering.
Currently version 0.95

The T-U-B-E SERVER HOST
Is a standalone plugin handler which allows you to create a T-U-B-E server on any net connected MacOSX 10.4.6 machine with port 7172 open. You will need to download the T-U-B-E plugin from here; http://www.t-u-b-e.de/iplug.htm