"An abstract visual representation of the Technoslef method" by Evankelos

Use your mouse cursor, wheel and buttons to interact.

MORE INFO & CONTEXT:

This interactive and audio reactive 3D piece serves as a video clip for my new track "Track03" from my forthcoming album "Untitled#2" and its subject is a tribute and abstract representation of the Technoself method of Deantoni Parks. THE METHOD The essence of this method/technique is based on a real-time/ improvisational approach of playing & composing music on the spot. The musician acts simultaneously as a programmer and a drummer, creating patterns, rhythms and textures in real-time, converting his accumulated experience, his state of mind and feelings of the moment into music. This conversion is streamed live using one hand on a MIDI keyboard triggering samples (and controlling several of their parameters) of sliced music, while with the rest of the limbs playing the drum set, reacting in real-time to the sounds created from the keyboard; and vice versa. My forthcoming album “Untitled#2” is heavily based on this method but since there are some edits and overdubs with other instruments we can argue that it demonstrates an exploration of this method and its emerging possibilities in music performance, composition and production by combining it with other techniques.

VIDEO CONCEPT To capture the real-time improvisational spirit of the Technoself method, the video clip is conceived and created within an interactive environment as it is being directed on the spot by the viewer. Similar to the Technoself method, the user has a basis of elements to work and interact with, while the result may differ every time. To represent the drumming/human factor of the musician playing (and the left hand of a right-handed drummer), the LEFT mouse button is assigned to change the position of a 3D drum set and also to simultaneously reveal a human figure. To represent the programming/machine factor of the musician playing (and the right hand of the same drummer), the RIGHT mouse button is assigned to change the position of a 3D cyborg hand and also to reveal a numerical audio reactive code, that represents the MIDI signal information that is fed from the keyboard to the machine (music software). To represent the current state of mind force that translates and streams through the instruments, we use the mouse cursor position which affects the positioning of the 3D elements (drum set and cyborg hand) in the 3D space.

CREDITS Music composed and then decomposed, (re)arranged, performed, recorded, mixed and produced by Evankelos. Video created by Evankelos. 3D models used are public domain More music @ http://evankelos.bandcamp.com/