From the desk of Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen:
"Back after a great Linux Audio Conference at Maynooth University in Ireland, and it is always a pleasure to be in good company with fellow Linux Audio and FLOSS enthusiasts! As a DIY and Open Source artist and user, it is crucial that these communities and gatherings exist.
At LAC, we performed the piece Occurrences as TMS (a duo consisting of artist Malte Steiner and myself), for which we have created a cybernetic system that registers and processes each our sonic input coming from metal percussion and tactile resonance via piezo-microphones. The computer then responds to our playing and calculates control data, not only for internal sound synthesis but also for an external DIY modular synthesizer and real-time generated visuals.
Overall, the system holds an open source backbone and runs from a Linux computer as well as it uses Pure Data for the analysis, processing, and responding with internal synthesis and controlling the external synthesizer hardware which TMS has been developing over the recent years. The process is further visualized by a custom software written in Python. The usage of open source software is important for us to both have full access to the technical infrastructures and develop these further as well as being independent from the corporate world.
Photos of our performance by Iain McCurdy.
TMS' travel to LAC26 has kindly been supported by Art Music Denmark
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