aa-cell concert review in realtime
In his review for RealTime of the Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC 2007) Dan MacKinlay states:"The crowd favourite this year seemed to be aa-cell, a collaborative project between Andrew Brown and Andrew Sorensen based around Sorensen's open-source project Impromptu. Impromptu is a Mac OS based application, combining a plug-in-based architecture with a live-coding scripting interface. The result, in aa-cellís hands, is a complex, agile improvisational journey that pares composition progress back to the naked sonification of algorithmsóand, because this is the 21st century, the bloody thing churns out visuals too. As academically rigorous as the compositional technique may be, itís still plain old techno and wouldnít get a look-in the door of any classical music school in the country. aa-cell shares the popular focus that predominates in the live-coding scene, honestly reflecting ACMA's own drift from its high-art origins."
aa-cell @ ICMC Copenhagen
As part of the concert program of the International Computer Music Conference, aa-cell (Andrew Brown and Andrew Sorensen) played their live coding show at the Huset venue in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Wednesday evening August 29, 2007. This was part of the peer selected program at the ICMC conference. They also presented an academic paper on their live coding practices at the conference as a demo session. Accompanying this post is a photo of aa-cell at the venue.
The night before aa-cell's performance, Klipp av (Nick Collins and Frederik Olofsson) performed their unique brand of audio-visual cut up, flying the flag for the Toplap community.
World exhibition
The works in World are real-time digital animation/sound screen works. These works are the latest results of a collaboration of almost 4 years between Daniel Mafe and Andrew Brown. Together Daniel and Andrew have been creating and exploring digital graphic and sound applications that can algorithmically generate evolutionary material that can transform and construct a visual space. From this exploratory process emerge digital animated works that can play indefinitely without repeating and create kaleidoscopic and mesmerizing interactions of image, pattern and texture. These works utilize assemblages of abstract shapes and sounds as well as scannings or reconstitutions of imagery.
2 nights only
Saturday 4 August 6 - 8 (opening)
Sunday 5 August 6 - 8
UNPLACE Project gallery space is at 232 Arthur Street, New Farm, Brisbane, Australia
