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  1. Sound Lens - early development

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    Some preliminary work on my new visual sequencer Sound Lens. The idea is to play with metaphors pairing volume with distance from POV but also focus. As per usual my crappy video capture software…

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    • Cube with Magic Ribbons

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      This is a preview of my new audio-visual composition for live performance, Cube with Magic Ribbons. The piece partly draws on the visual paradoxes of M.C.Escher but is also inspired by the impossible…

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      • Dark Star

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        Dark Star is an interactive multimedia installation which I produced during my six week residency at Mota in Ljubljana. The projection screen is actually a dark plexi-glass hemisphere suspended in…

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        • Sound Pit

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          Sound Pit is in an interactive sound installation involving the motion tracking of multiple coloured balls. In a strange meeting of Ping-pong and Plunderphonics , samples ranging from avant-garde…

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          • Dark Star - short promo

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            Dark Star is an interactive multimedia installation which I produced during my six week residency at Mota in Ljubljana. Onlookers interact with the installation by pointing at a particular star which…

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            • Electric Lights Orchestra

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              A two day workshop held at the Mota Point in Ljubljana as part of Sonica Festival 2011. Participants turn light into sound by creating a simple computer vision program with processing and connecting…

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              • Musical Matryoshka: Recursive Structures Through Sonic and Visual Media

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                by Simon Katan / Added

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                This is the (award winning) paper that I gave at Brunel's Researching the Arts Conference 2011. Sorry the resolution is too low to see the graphics properly on this version. I'll be eventually uploading…

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                • Dark Star Prototyping

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                  This is some of the tracking for my forthcoming collaboration with MoTa on the project Dark Star in Ljublijana. I'm using OpenFrameworks, Kinect and OpenNI. The program allows for many users with…

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                  • God Over Djinn

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                    by Simon Katan / Added

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                    God Over Djinn is a computer visual and synthesised sound composition that draws on our intuitive understanding of the physical world, as well as playing with ambiguities between scale and perspective…

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                    • Nautical But Noise

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                      Preview of Brainer Finger Disco's forthcoming performance at Synthesis, The Albany, Deptford, Nov 11th 2010

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                      • Random Walk

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                        This game-installation is an invisible maze. A single player, whose position is tracked by a computer, has to respond to morphing sounds and images to discover as many hidden targets as possible.…

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                        • Brownian Motion

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                          Video footage of one my interactive installations at Spitalfields Festival's Xenakis Unbound day 19.06.10. The installation tracks the motion of coloured balls using a webcam which in turn controls…

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