Audio Visual Internet Performance
by Roger Mills and Neil Jenkins.
Plac.Art.X headphones Festival,
Regensburg, Germany in August 2007.
Istanbul was a live internet audio visual performance by Roger
Mills and Neil Jenkins for Plac.Art.X
headphones festival in Regensburg, Germany in August 2007.
It was performed live on the internet from Bristol UK, mixing field recordings,
analog synth and live looping trumpet with image collages mixed in real time
on the internet based A/V platform visitorsstudio.org.
After visiting Istanbul in the weeks prior to the performance, we were captivated
by the beauty and diversity of the city but also the disparate cities within
the city.
It was a week after the election of Abdullah Gul and the various topics of
the election and the direction the country was heading, were still being hotly
debated. It appeared to us as visitors, that no one seemed sure where the
country was heading but all agreed that a definite change had taken place.
Istanbul A/V performance tries to highlight the beauty, joy, innocence and
melancholy of this great city, while wondering where it's future lies. A transitory
sound journey composed by Roger Mills with visual mix by Neil Jenkins.
A season of live internet performances hosted by Furthernoise.org
As part of the Month of Sundays season, Furthernoise.org editor Roger Mills and Visitors Studio programmer Neil Jenkins performed at the Watershed (Bristol) in June 2006. This was the first in a series of four live internet A/V performances by international artists and was also screened at The Point CDC Theatre (New York) and E:vent (London).
MULTI-AV Cross Continental Internet A/V Jam
Friday September 10th, 2004
Sonic Circuits DC Festival @ Flashpoint
Washington DC
Cross Continental Audio Video Net Jam featuring Mikroknytes (USA), Roger Mills aka Sawtooth (UK) and Darren Zeising aka Stalker (Australia). Using the Internet and a special web based computer application Visitors Studio, live digital video and audio was mixed from all three continents and projected to the audience at Flashpoint (Washington DC).
for further information see the Sonic Curcuits website
A transatlantic collaborative multimedia protest jam
August/September 2004
Coinciding with the Republican Convention in New York, Roger Mills & Neil Jenkins along side 20 other international net and digital artists broadcast a new collaborative art-polemic with a focus on how Bush and the US Republicans negatively influence every locality around the world.
All multimedia performances were performed live, in online net mixing platform Visitors Studio. They were also projected at Postmasters Gallery's RNC NODE, a way-station, which served as a physical node of an ad-hock public broadcasting, a system of online, real time protest performances and alternative news actions. All online streams were also output in local bars and projections from windows.
Here Nor There at Millennium Square
GPS / wearable technology sound design for public art installation at Millennium Square, Bristol. Commissioned by the University of Bristol computer sciences department and Hewlett Packard Invent.
In conjunction with a GPS based computer system housed in a specially designed jacket with headphones, I produced a spatialized audio and music soundtrack that provides an immersive experience for a participant walking around Millennium Square, Bristol.
The commissioned work is a collaboration with multimedia artist Annie Lovejoy and its content based on ideas of location and our recent work with artists and singers from Bristol's twin cities of Tblisi and Hanover.
See the ...here
nor there... web site for further details about the project
River Avon - Sonata for Cello & Flute
Live performance as part of Here Nor There in Dialogue, July 13 2003.
This composition was inspired by the winding Avon River, which runs from the mouth of the Severn passing through the Cities of Bristol, Bath and throughout the West Country as it divides into various tributaries. It's key and rhythm structures were developed through a Musique Concrete composition composed from manipulated field recordings taken from locations along the Avon & Kennet Canal.
It was performed at Netham Lock as part of the Here Nor There collectives 'where r u ?' ferry trip for the Dialogue Festival at 9.20pm on Sunday the 13th of July 2003.
Video
excerpt from the performance (QuickTime, 1.8Mb)
Here Nor There at Kibla media centre, Maribor, Slovenia.
Two week exhibition & live sound system event featuring vocals from Natalie Deseke (Germany) and mixed visual projections by the HNT crew. It was web cast in the UK by London’s Resonance FM and the Watershed, Bristol.
Here Nor There Radio @ Radio Flora, Hanover, DE
21 June 2000
Here nor there radio / web broadcast at Radio Flora, Hanover, Germany as part of the Expo 2000 festival. This featured music from the collectives collaborations and sound art pieces. It was also web cast into the café bar at Watershed, Bristol.
For further information, see the ...here
nor there... website
Walls Have Ears - Live at Exeter Phoenix. September 2001
Commissioned as musician in residence by Dorset arts organisation PVA to compose a soundtrack as an epitaph to the Literary and Scientific Institute in which they are housed. The resulting soundtrack 'Walls Have Ears' was showcased as a live performance at the Swipe 2000 digital arts festival held in December 2000 at Bridport Arts centre, Dorset.
In collaboration with digital/video artist Neil Jenkins 'Walls Have Ears' was subsequently developed into a touring show and was performed at Exeter Phoenix and Prema Arts Centre, Gloucester.
Walls Have Ears website