IF06 - Earshot performance: - Stefan Müller Arisona & Corebounce

VJs: Scheinwerfer (Stefan Müller Arisona, Pascal Müller, Simon Schubiger-Banz, Matthias Specht Machado)
The “Rip My Disk” VJ performance will be accompanied by a live set of dark drum and bass (with finesse) by Steve Gibson and Jackson 2Bears

NOTE: Audience members are encouraged to bring their bluetooth and infrared devices such as mobile phones, pdas, or laptops. Audience members will be able to use these devices for sending content and assigning it to their device's address, and the content will then show up on the projection screens during the performance.

See also: IF06 Midnight Electro Jam
See also: IF06 presentation - The Naked Phone

Media example
View mp4 movie - Scheinwerfer

Stefan Müller Arisona is lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at the Programming Languages and Runtime Systems Group at the ETH Zurich. His research is focussed on real-time multimedia systems and on live multimedia composition and performance software and he is scientific co-director of ETH’s Digital Art Weeks. In 2004, Stefan received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich's Multimedia Laboratory. The thesis introduced a mathematical model for the performance of musical gestures, and how musical gestures can be synthesised from a given musical score. Stefan Müller Arisona is co-author of the Soundium multimedia performance platform and a founding member of the Corebounce Association.

Simon Schubiger-Banz works as a senior engineer at Swisscom Innovations, teaches a mobile systems architecture course at ETHZ, and is an associate researcher of the Pervasive and Artificial Intelligence group (PAI) at the University of Fribourg (DIUF). His research interests include multimedia performance systems, knowledge representation, programming languages, user interface design, and distributed computing. He is a co-developer of the Soundium2 multi-media system. Simon Schubiger-Banz received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is a member of the ACM and president of the Corebounce Association.

Pascal Mueller is Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the Computer Vision Lab of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His main interests lie in the field of computer graphics: procedural and physical modeling, generative design, animation, visual effects production pipelines and computer-aided media art. He developed the CityEngine and is co-developer of the multimedia engine Decklight. Pascal Mueller received a master degree in computer science from the ETH Zurich in 2001. For two and a half years, he worked as a freelance consultant at ETH Zurich and as a technical director for the production company Central Pictures, Switzerland.

Matthias Specht is research assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Zürich's Morpholab. His research interests include interactive tools for 3D geometric morphometrics and 3D-visualisation. He is further involved in the Corebounce Association's Soundium project, where he is a co-developer of the multimedia engine Decklight. Matthias Specht received a M.Sc. in computer science from ETH Zürich, Switzerland and worked for two years on the Soundweb project for BSS Audio in London. The Soundweb products pioneered networked digital audio and still are a huge success on the professional music installation market (concert halls, clubs, etc).

Rip My Disk
Soundium is a programming platform and research tool for interactive live multimedia performance developed over the last four years by Corebounce Association. Soundium has a strong design sophistication whose main goal is to overcome and go beyond limitations of existing tools such as Max/Jitter. With its extensive support for media analysis and management, combined with a networked multimedia processing architecture, Soundium deals with an ever-increasing need for large scale installations ranging from extended dance gigs to interactive multimedia performances. Soundium is currently being further developed as part of a research project at ETH Zurich. It is frequently used by the Corebounce’s VJ Group “Scheinwerfer” for multimedia installations and performances, for example at ETH's Digital Art Weeks.

For IF06 we present an augmented VJ performance where visitors can enter into a dare by letting the Scheinwerfer team “rip” multimedia contents off their personal handphones to get exposed (“virtually naked”) on the dancefloor. Others, not so akin to risk taking, can simply enjoy employing their handphones for interactive painting as well as sending media such as videos and images. The media will be used as personal artifacts, which will be continuously adapted and integrated, resulting in the personal enhancement of the space around the media owner’s location.

Sound and Vision
Stefan Müller Arisona & Scheinwerfer (Corebounce)
The Naked Phone
Laurel Point Inn
2 pm, Saturday January 28th
Our talk addresses the technical and artistic background of Corebounce and their "Rip my Disk" performance. We present the key motivations behind Corebounce association, the evolution of the live performance software "Soundium / Decklight", and selected work in the field of VJing and multimedia installations, such as a 10000 square feet electronic building display controlled by mobile phones. We further demonstrate how mobile communication technologies can easily be made accessible to artists or performers. Our current work, "Rip my Disk", brings mobile art to the dancefloor by blurring privacy and bringing personal content to the big screen.

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