Chris O'Shea's Pixelsumo blogs is one of my favorites. His recent post, "Musical Heads" featured three different takes on the theme. The one I liked best was Neurosonics Audiomedical, created by Chris Cairns.
I didn't see the video when it was set loose on the Internet about four months ago. The musical heads in the video include Shlomo, Foreign Beggars, and The Scratch Perverts.
I usually don't search on the internet for disembodied musical beat boxing heads!
RELATED Who is Chris Cairns? Johnathan Wells, Flux 9/15/09 (Interview- includes some information about how the video was made.) Partizan Website Chris O'Shea's Pixelsumo Blog (Link will take you to O'Shea's visual blog index.)
Thanks, Chris O'Shea, for your blog, full of interesting, creative, and sometimes very unusual things. Thanks, Chris Cairns & musicians, for sharing your creativity with the world.
I came across this interesting video clip of Audience, a "performance" of 64 mirrors programmed to move together when someone walks by, in attention. The installation was created by Chris O'Shea, author of the Pixelsumo blog, and rAndom internationalas part of an exhibit at Deloitte Ignite08, a three-day festival of performances and experiences created by artists and scientists at the Royal Opera in London.
Wayne McGregor, the choreographer for the Royal Ballet, was the director of Ignite08. The following is McGregor's vision behind the festival.
"Explaining the ethos behind such a diverse festival programme, McGregor reveals he was influenced by Greek philosopher Aristotle’s definition of the five senses. ‘We experience everything through our senses and, although we are by nature sight-dominated, it is through a complex network and inter-relatedness of these multiple senses that we can perceive events, artistic endeavour included,’ he says."
The "What's On" section of the Ignite08 website includes links short interviews and written profiles of the various Ignite08 participants.
For more information about Wayne McGregor, see Mind in Motion.(Times)
