Collaborating with LEMUR
Last Saturday I played at The Stone with LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. We’ve been working together for about a year now and it’s a very exciting collaboration. Their instruments have a strong kinship with the mutantrumpet, and the idea of networking my instrument with their extensive cyber percussion battery is a perfect realization of the idea of networked performance. Also I have a long history of performing in a duo setting with percussion, and I have revived some of my older pieces for this setup. In this type of configuration, the computer becomes less of an end point and more of connector for physical instruments on the input and output sides. In this way the technology starts to become invisible, facilitating interaction in the physical world. The next step is to combine the LEMUR collaboration with interactive video, controlling two different outputs from the mutantrumpet/laptop system at once.
photo by Joy Garnett of Newsgrist