Suite For String Quartet
Composition by Zachary Watkins. Excerpt from visual performance at The Lab, San Francisco, California.
Real-time animation with custom arduino-based controller and custom software written in Processing.
Description:
Suite For String Quartet is a minimalist compostion for strings and electronic audio processing. The piece is based in long tones with improvisational variations within complex chord structures built in a modern tuning.
The duration of the piece is 30 minutes, an excerpt is shown in the video.
Composer:
Zachary Watkinszacharyjameswatkins.com
Visualist:
Joseph Gray (real-time animation)
Visuals Hardware:
One video projector; One Mac laptop; Custom controller made using Arduino Visuals Sofware:
Custom application written in Processing Automated version of the software can be seen (including source code) at openprocessing.org.
Dates:
July 19th, 2009Location:
The Labthelab.org
2948 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
As part of the Collision Performance Series