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FOUND

norbert — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:46 +0000

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7PM @ 101E. 6th Street
Bloomington, Indiana
7PM – 1AM / All ages welcome
$5 / Beer and wine cash bar

A globally cool, local evening of art, design and creative industries celebrating sustainable practices.

FOUND is an extravaganza of sights, sounds and interactions with artists, designers, creatives, musicians, DJs, VJs and performers supporting sustainable practices in art, design, culture and commerce. Creative work and performances in FOUND use hand-built, programmed, open source, DIY, hacked/bent, found or recycled elements and consider sustainable practices.

“Practical Lessons in the Use of English”
by Norbert Herber & Eric Rensberger

An improvisation of words as sound; sounds and words as image. “Practical Lessons in the Use of English” was written by Mary F. Hyde in 1896.

Eric Rensberger has lived in Bloomington, Indiana since 1979. He is a local poet whose collected works may be found at www.ericrensbergerpoetry.net.

Norbert Herber is a musician and sound artist whose research and practice explores the relationship between people and sound within mediated environments.

Also featuring:
Analog Zebra and Snebtor, Younsuk Altieri, Andrew Brennan, Sara Brooks, Amy Burrell, The Canary Project, The Collaboration Room, Laurel Cornell, Terry Dame’s Electric Junkyard Gamelan, William Huster, N_DREW, Caleb Levell and Derek Hopf, Robert Lyon, Andrew Maurer, Edward Morris, Jordon Munson, Annie Murdock, Rob Off, Susannah Sayler, Leslie Sharpe, Mariana Tres, Rachel Weaver, Fabian Winkler

Find Found on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136939366670

AUTOMATIC BODY

norbert — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:21:54 +0000

Automatic Body, done in collaboration with Yacov Sharir, is an installation driven by swarm dynamics where individual behaviors are translated into sound and dance. The media has not been optimized for the web, so please excuse the sluggish playback.

Launch AUTOMATIC BODY

Umba-Imba Player

norbert — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:14:57 +0000

The Umba-Imba Player (1.5 MB) requires Adobe Shockwave Player: get it here.
The Umba Imba player was a collaboration with Michael Caporale. Mike did all of the photography, Photoshop, design, and Umba playing; I did the audio recording, editing, and programming in Director/Lingo.
Instructions: In attempting to offer you a musical experience via the computer and the internet that could fully replicate playing the Umba-imba, we have to concede that it is not really possible.
The instrument is played intuitively and that requires direct audible-visual-tactile feedback. Additionally, stick technique such as multiple mallets, variation of types of mallets, and strength and location of the attack on a key all vary the sounds. So that you may experience it to the fullest in this limited way, we offer you three playing modes, each with distinct benefits: Screen Mode, Pattern Mode, and Keyboard mode. These are represented by the three buttons labeled S, P and K, respectively. In screen mode you can get a good feeling for the sound that each note makes by simply mouse- clicking on any given note. In pattern mode you can get a sense of how phrases or patterns are constructed from sections of the instrument. We have divided the instrument into quadrants. By mouse clicking in the left or right halves of the wooden or metal portions of the keyboard, you can trigger a phrase composed of notes from that section of the instrument. Once you understand the instrument, you are ready for keyboard mode. We have assigned the various notes of the UMBA to keys on your keyboard.