Reflexions

Source: David Rokeby

David Rokeby

Reflexions ,
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Description
His first interactive sound installation. Construction of some very bulky 8 x 8 pixel video cameras, connected then to a wire-wrapped card in the Apple ][ which digitized the images, and wrote a program for the Apple ][ which controlled a Korg MS-20 Analog synthesizer to make sounds in response to the movements seen by the cameras. Movement also controlled the volume of two tape loops of water sounds. The synthesizer and water sounds were mixed individually to 4 seoakers in a tetrahedron. The sounds would move around you in addition to responding to your movement.
Reflexions always had a visual component. (source: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/reflex.html)
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • hypermediacy
    • performative
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
    • sound art
      • sound installations
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • algorithms
      • dynamical systems
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • music
      • theater
    • Body and Psychology
      • bodies (animal components)
      • movement
Technology & Material
Hardware
Apple II
8x8 pixel camera
Korg MS-20 Analog synthesizer
4 speakers
Software
programm in 6502 assembly code for apple II controlling the synthesizer
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