{"id":1288,"date":"2006-08-02T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T07:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/02\/skatesonic-cobi-hits-cali\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T07:25:41","slug":"skatesonic-cobi-hits-cali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/02\/skatesonic-cobi-hits-cali\/","title":{"rendered":"Skatesonic – Cobi hits Cali"},"content":{"rendered":"

via networked performance (who got it from we-make-money-not-art<\/a> – even tho Cobi actually sent me an email which I accidentally deleted… cobi, could you send me that again?):<\/p>\n

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Skateboard music interface<\/h4>\n

Cobi van Tonder<\/a>, author of the brilliant Ephemeral Gumboots<\/a>, has been commissioned a new work for ISEA2006. The project, Skatesonic<\/a>, uses the motions and sounds of skateboards and explores their inherent ambient rhythm to create music. In a way, each move translates to musical parameters and the rider ends up skating through a landscape of music (which s\/he influences over time).<\/em><\/p>\n

Skatesonic will work in both solo and group situation. The system "listens" to space through movement, which it maps out and translates into music. Each of the four boards will map to a unique sound and structural parameters, so if there are 4 riders they will be able to jam like a band. For example, Skatesonic will allow skaters to buffer through a sound file in Max, meaning that as they rolls over a certain distance it is as if they have a record needle under the board, and every inch of movement progresses the sound. The live microphone input also reveals information about the texture of surface under the board and intensity of movement. From an interview with the artist<\/a> by Sylvie Parent. [blogged by Regine on we-make-money-not-art<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

JOHANNESBURG AND SA REPRESENT!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

via networked performance (who got it from we-make-money-not-art – even tho Cobi actually sent me an email which I accidentally deleted… cobi, could you send me that again?): Skateboard music interface Cobi van Tonder, author of the brilliant Ephemeral Gumboots, has been commissioned a new work for ISEA2006. The project, Skatesonic, uses the motions and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,9,8,2,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-kM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":215,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/07\/software-for-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":1288,"position":0},"title":"software for me!","author":"nathaniel","date":"07 October 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Decision made. 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