(actually, it was 2012 - BEAM night, full of people using odd things as inputs. https://www.flickr.com/photos/marikakochi/6947759946/in/photostream/ )
― koogs, Sunday, 21 April 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
sure but Leafcutter J is no dillettante, he STUCK WITH IT
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Sunday, 21 April 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
yes, and he's made a nice box for it (it was just wires in 2012). the idea / performance has stuck with me all these years too.
the other people were using things like iphone accelerometers and those elasticated bands they use for medical sensors, attached to his arms and legs so his movements were translated into music.
― koogs, Sunday, 21 April 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
video here too (LCJ starts about 1:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ1iUdQDCMY
― koogs, Sunday, 21 April 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
I love the idea of random bleed between parameters, and of course inverting the normal "MIDI triggers pretty lights" to make the visualization the control signal.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Sunday, 21 April 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link