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Mycorrhiza
A mycorrhiza is a symbiotic (generally mutualistic, but occasionally weakly pathogenic) association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant.
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‘The swamp that was’ – a bicycle opera from the ground of Ganda (part 5)
The Bicycle Opera is now live, get your bikes from the Snoepwinkel, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 21: A bicycle opera in Ghent! British sound artist Kaffe Matthews records urban sounds such as music, singing and street sounds. As she combines these with elements from the past, she creates an unseen urban opera. A mobile composition, written for cyclists.…
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More music from bikes (part 4)
The last few days has seen intense work on Kaffe Matthews’ Ghent Bicycle Opera which goes live in a few days, lots of new stuff on the git repo for Beagle Board/GPS powered sample playback. (image from Timelab/Kaffe’s site) The main problem with the version we tested in June was that all the samples needed…
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Aniziz (the soil)
The borrowed scenery game has been named ‘Aniziz’ – from the 12th century Lingua Ignota used by Hildegard of Bingen. The term means “the soil” and represents the game’s role in the wider project, for nurturing plants found in the city, as well as the mapping element. It’s working much more like a proper multiplayer…
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Baltan Laboratories FaceSponge workshop
This is a very late report on a workshop on Facebook livecoding/hacking we gave at Baltan Laboratories in Eindhoven in May. We were invited us to run a workshop based on Naked on Pluto as part of their Tools Series: The Tools Series is a series of Baltan Sessions that examines the complex and changing…
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Building a mobile patabotanical instrument
Modding the boskoi android app for borrowed scenery, simplifying the interface and adding some patabotanical flourishes. Trying different designs with mockups: The results so far:
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Borrowed Scenery – spacesuits for plants and full screen scrolling in HTML5 canvas
Lots more of Theun’s new artwork which is coming on quickly over the last few days has been added to the game, the glass bubbles (more precisely cloches) are space suits for the plants from our world to live in, in their new patabotanical environment. Information about tagged plants is printed in a Voinych Manuscript…
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Borrowed Scenery tendrils reach out
Some serious connecting work going on with borrowed scenery for joining physical and imaginary worlds together. A new Boskoi database is up and running, giving us a place to put all kinds of story elements and plants found in the city. Boskoi uses the Ushahidi platform, which provides an API the game is now using…
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Algorithmic fungi patterns
Central to the borrowed scenery game is an ecosystem of fungi that players will grow to feed the plants found by foragers in the city of Ghent using Boskoi. These fungi will work differently from the plants in Germination X, partly in response to some interesting game testing feedback – the fungi will only grow…
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Live notation at the Arnolfini
I was honoured to take part in the live notation unit’s event at the Arnolfini on Friday, and to perform with Alex McLean and Hester Reeve in the evening. Live notation is a project exploring connections between Live Art and Live Coding, both art forms revolving around performance, but with very different cultures and backgrounds.…