Rotating Brains / Beating Heart

Footage shot by Yael Gilks (Fau Ferdinand)
Audio recorded by Dennis Moser

A live networked performance collaboration with Stelarc, Pauline Oliveros, Franziska Schroeder and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

Performed September 5, 2010 at Brunel University, UK
Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts Conference

Performers

Live on Stage:

Franziska Schroeder, live saxophone
Martin Parker, live electronics and processing

Live in Second Life:

Stelarc Luic, aka Stelarc (Melbourne, Australia)
Stelarc automatons, Stelarc voice samples;

Pyewacket Kazyanenko, aka Dan Mounsey (Melbourne, Australia)
Stelarc automatons

Free Noyes, aka Pauline Oliveros (Kingston, NY, USA)
9-Channel virtual mixer

Humming Pera, aka Tina Pearson (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Conductor - Avatar Orchestra

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse - Virtual instruments and Breathing Life animations

Bingo Onomatopoeia, aka Andreas Müller (Regensburg, Germany)
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom, aka Biagio Francia (Agropoli, Italy)
Carolhyn Wijaya, aka Carolyn Oakley (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Flivelwitz Alsop, aka Tim Risher, (Durham, North Carolina, USA)
Free Noyes, aka Pauline Oliveros (Kingston, NY, USA)
Goodwind Seiling aka Sachiko Hayashi, Stockholm, Sweden
Humming Pera, aka Tina M. Pearson (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Maxxo Klaar, aka Max D. Well (Regensburg, Germany)
North Zipper, aka Norman Lowrey (New Jersey, USA)
Paco Mariani, aka Chris Wittkowsky (Regensburg, Germany)
Saara Edring, aka Seidi Palonen, Helsinki, Finland
Zonzo Spyker, aka Viv Corringham (Minneapolis, MN, USA / London, UK

Second Life camera operator - Steve Millar (aka Arahan Claveau)
Second Life audio - Dennis Moser and Biagio Francia
Editing - Steve Millar (aka Arahan Claveau)

Stelarc's Second Life site and set constructed by Dan Mounsey
5-Brain control mixer designed and built by Norman Lowrey
Free Noyes 9-Channel Mixer conceived by Pauline Oliveros, designed and built by Norman Lowrey
Avatar Orchestra Virtual instruments conceived by Tina Pearson, designed and built by Andreas Mueller
Sound samples by Andreas Mueller, Norman Lowrey, Tim Risher, Stelarc, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, Viv Corringham and Tina Pearson
Avatar Orchestra animations designed and built by Tim Risher
Particles designed and edited by Andreas Mueller and Norman Lowrey, with contributions from Sachiko Hayashi and Yael Gilks

Thanks to
-RMIT Creative Media for hosting the Rotating Brains / Beating Heart installation in Second Life
-Brunel University for hosting the DRHA Conference.
-Franziska Schroeder for inviting the collaboration and performance
-Yael Gilks for overall support
-Lilith, for the in-womb heartbeats
-Dennis Moser and Biagio Francia for Second Life audio

The concept and structure for ROTATING BRAINS / BEATING HEART was collectively created by Stelarc, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, Franziska Schroeder, Pauline Oliveros, Tina Pearson and members of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.

Stelarc is Chair In Performance Art, Brunel University West London and
Senior Research Fellow, MARCS Auditory Labs, University of Western Sydney.
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v2.stelarc.org
avatarorchestra.blogspot.com
paulineoliveros.us
tinpark.com
sarc.qub.ac.uk/~fschroeder
myspace.com/transponderfish
users.drew.edu/~nlowrey
timrisher.com
stevemillar.co.uk
drha2010.org.uk