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Technoetic Arts 7.1

norbert — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:06:11 +0000

I wrote a paper “Dérive en Mille Sons” for the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. It has just been re-published as “Dérive entre Mille Sons: a psychogeographic approach to mobile music and mediated interaction” in Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research. Much thanks to journal editor Roy Ascott, publishers Intellect, and Guillaume Ansart for his help with a more precise title translation.

Abstract: Dérive entre Mille Sons (Drifting in a Thousand Sounds) is a musical work that uses mobile media technology to artistically examine the relationship between music and the listener. Contemporary media technologies, be they at work, home or in your pocket, emphasize playback. These devices are designed to facilitate the storage and retrieval of pre-made media assets. This work leverages the processing capabilities that rest dormant within these technologies. Drawing from the writings of Guy Debord and the situationist/surrealist practice of the dérive, ‘drifting’ becomes a metaphor for instrumental performance in which the openness and emergence of interactivity is articulated through sound, as music.

Technoetic Arts requires a subscription. Check to see if your library has online access or print copies of the journal. My original Spark paper is available online.

Hz online journal

norbert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:47:54 +0000

Hz (#9 Jan. 2007) published an illustrated version of my paper “Composition-Instrument: musical emergence and interaction” This version includes images illustrating the art and media works discussed in the paper.

From Pac-Man to Pop Music

norbert — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:24:19 +0000

“From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media” is edited by Karen Collins and will be published by Ashgate. I contributed a chapter entitled “The Composition-Instrument: emergence, improvisation, and interaction in games and new media.”

Flash Savvy series

norbert — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:48:50 +0000

Flash 8 Savvy
With the help of Sham Bhangal, Ethan Watrall and I completed a third Flash book with greater depth and more advanced topics. “Flash 8 Savvy” was published in April of 2006.

Flash MX 2004 Savvy
This thorough revision to the original “Flash MX Savvy” was published in December of 2003.

Flash MX Savvy:
This book was co-authored with Ethan Watrall and published in June of 2002 by Sybex of San Francisco, CA.
Ethan and I both teach Flash classes. We approached writing the book as if it were a slow-motion class. We hope that our readers benefit from the continuity of content and explanations not only of the how, but the why.

Flash Savvy books on the Internet:
von Flashenstein web site (original site archive)

Flash MX Savvy

Flash 8 Savvy