Sounds For Epic Walk Diaries (Pensacola)

February 23, 2020 by Simon Overstall

Epic Walk Diaries (Pensacola) February 9 - image courtesy of Alex Hass and Maria Lantin

My good friends Maria Lantin and Alex Hass invited me to contribute a sound composition for their work Epic Walk Diaries for an exhibition the TAG gallery as part of the STEAM2020 colloquium hosted by the University of Western Florida in Pensacola. Read about their residency here: STEAM2020 Residency.

The sound composition is recombinant, continually remixing live sounds Alex and Maria recorded on their Epic Walks with samples I recorded of some steel bowls and my bass. Here’s some example output from the system that was assembled in Max8.

Icebergs off the coast of East 8th and Fraser

February 03, 2018 by Simon Overstall in Projects

This work is inspired by snapshots of the gutters near my home after the late snowfall in March of 2017. The audio is from samples recorded in my kitchen processed with a custom granular patch made in Max7. The visual is pixel sorting algorithms applied to the orginal snapshot.

super LIVE! New Media + Sound Art Concerts

January 30, 2018 by Simon Overstall

Poster for the New Media + Sound Art Concerts (Part of the Time Light Sound Series at Emily Carr University).

I had a wonderful time performing in a couple of concerts last week. These shows were the initail concerts of the New Media + Sound Art performance series, which is in turn part of the Time Light Sound at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. The NMSA series highlights the works of student and faculty from the NMSA program at ECU.

The Thursday night featured performances of EPIC_Tom and Biophilia with the VOICE OVER mind Choir lead by DB Boyko.

The Friday night included performances by NMSA faculty Peter Bussigel, Julie Andreyev and Caroline Park as Tiny Disasters, and myself as well as two performances by student enselmbles.

My work on Friday was a further develpment of a piece created and first performed with Ava Grayson at Third Space's Sound Room. It is a performed audio-visual piece with visuals developed in Max7/Jitter, custom granular processing and noise instruments also made in Max7. For this iteration I have started to explore an idea I have to work with video reactive audio. In this case the luminosity of a slected portion of the screen controlled the noise instruments.