This is a terrific use and extension of a standard drum kit. I think that this performance by Berz is interesting on a number of levels, and it really communicates both to art snobs like you and I, and to lay listeners.

Both this video and the Maja Ratkje video were shown to me yesterday by [...]

Full-length video documentation of audiovisual live improvisation performance at CAMP Festival for Visual Music, HfG, Karlsruhe, Germany, 24 September 2011. [1]

BeatMe is a solo performance with video projection, sound and double bass.
The video/sound/Text is handled with Max/MSP, triggered by a midi-foot switch, giving the control of what is happening while playing the music.

Thinking about the relation of music and moving images gave me the idea of bending the codes of composition for visuals and music [...]

Max Mathews is the father of computer music who worked at bell labs in the early 50s. The radio drum is a realtime performance instrument developed by him in the last 20 years. Composer, performer, educator Richard Boulanger is the author of the definitive book on Csound. they both are playing the radio drum in [...]

This collection of devices concerns the design and implementation of interactive sculptural interfaces to be operated by the public as well as by specialist performers, for instance, musicians or dancers. Options for automatic computer control also exist. The set of interfaces under consideration here is referred to as the ‘metapiano’, itself a ‘meta-sculpture’ comprising a [...]

Axon written for Electric Guitar and 8 Channel Tape. Written by Michael Andrews and Ricky Graham. Performed by Ricky Graham @ the Pure Data Convention 2011 – Werkstattstudio, Weimar, DE. [1]

An interactive audiovisual feedback loop forms the basis of All Hail the Dawn. The instrument contains two simple light-sensitive oscillators. A crude spectral analysis in Max/MSP is used to filter the oscillators as well as looped buffers recorded from the instrument. A matrix of the spectral analysis, interactively altered in Jitter using audio data, is [...]

The Pencil Project is a unique initiative that introduces children to an electroacoustic performance. On stage, two performers create a symphonic universe by manipulating the live sounds created by everyday objects found in a classroom. A pencil transforms into a magic wand, and a rubber band becomes a violin. The production will engage, surprise and [...]