GREG DEBICKI

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False Allegory is a collaboration between Greg Doble and Greg Debicki.

Screenings:

2015 - XPO North - Scotland 2015 - Cinema Spectacular II - Vancouver 2015 - Animaze - Montreal 2015 - Festival Parachute Light Zero Act II - Paris 2015 - NFFTY - Washington 2015 - Sprockets Music Video - Athens, Georgia 2015 - Cineshift - Anacortes, Washington 2015 - Sickest Short Films - New York 2015 - Encounters - Bristol 2015 - 20min|max - Germany 2015 - Sled Island - Calgary 2015 - Golden Kuker, Internation Animation Film Festival - Bulgaria 2015 - Athens Animfest - Greece 2015 - Viewster Online Film Fest 2015 - TUFF - Toronto

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Woulg - Ring Buffer (A/V Test)

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Ring Buffer explores data-bending by modelling sound in 3D. Sounds are sculpted in 3D modelling software using procedural algorithms and then converted to sound using image to audio mapping, and are displayed using a spectrograph and various other visualizations. By using gestural rhythmic structures with a heavy emphasis on texture and dynamics, the performance takes the audience through an imagined geography, exploring multiple perspectives of alien shapes and soundscapes. 

Past Performances:

2015 - Alberta College of Art and Design - Calgary 2015 - microMutek - Bogota 2015 - Outlier Recordings 5 Year Anniversary, Palisades - New York City 2015 - ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Art - Vancouver 2015 - Mutek - Museum of Contemporary Art - Montreal 2015 - Whatwhat - Godsbanen - Arhus 2015 - Acephale - Faites Votre Jeux at Klapperfeld Prison - Frankfurt 2015 - Mapping Festival - Casino Theater - Geneva 2015 - 8 Bitów - Poznan 2015 - Faites Votre Jeux at Klapperfeld Prison - Frankfurt 2015 - Mind Camp - Tivoli Vredenburg - Utrecht 2015 - British Film Institute - London 2015 - Berklee College of Music - Masters Campus - Valencia 2015 - Mutek.ES - Barcelona

More Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrCmw0WagwM https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xtf1/t50.2886-16/11912558_1093079977382567_21960116_n.mp4 https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xtp1/t50.2886-16/11936637_613407942132708_1986234306_n.mp4 https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xat1/t50.2886-16/12134471_829468767151485_238776963_n.mp4 https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfp1/t50.2886-16/11058882_955794224445560_1943082687_n.mp4

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2014 L'ELOI Demo Reel Music by: Woulg Editing by: Lucy Rybicka @ The Workshop With footage+photos by: Anouk Lessard // Christophe Collette // Kristof Brandi // Kevin Calero // Herve Demers // LM Chabot // Martin Laporte // Mathieu Fortin // Nik Mirus

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Woulg - Hollow (Visuals Test) Audio and Sound Reactive Visuals Commissioned by EM15 (MUTEK/ELEKTRA)

Hollow is and audio/visual performancs that takes the listener into a rupture in the fabric of techno. Dark, industrial, 4 to the floor form is disrupted by poly-rhythmic glitch that draws the audience from primal body-oriented dance music down into aggressive cerebral IDM and back. Minimal sound responsive visuals trace accents of the journey through explorations in vector manipulation and phase-scope buffer drawings.

This early visuals tests includes a generative, sound responsive intro, and is coupled with a "teaser" style audio track featuring excerpts from the tracks that were performed live at EM15.

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Bless You Sound Design Commissioned and Animated by David Barlow Krelina

A man takes the subway. Inside his brain, a countdown clock hits zero and a little person prepares for lift-off. The man sneezes.

The sound design and music in this short film makes use of numerous extended techniques such as flat-line limiting and data bending (among others). The sound and animation were done simultaneously by exchanging rough cuts. 

Screenings:

2013, Sept 18-22 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada 2013, Sept 23 The Animation Show of Shows, USA 2013, Oct 17-25 Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Canada 2013, Nov 27-Dec 1 Animated Dreams 15, Estonia 2014, Apr 4-13 Florida Film Festival, USA 2014, April 17-20 Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Canada 2014, May 12-18 Northwest Animation Festival, USA 2014, June 3-9 Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany 2014, June 13 Annecy+, France 2014, June 14-6 Toronto Animation Arts Festival, Canada 2014, June 19 Vimeo Staff Pick 2014, July 7-Aug 1 Supertoon International Animation Festival, Croatia 2014, July 25 Anima Mundi, Brazil 2014, Aug 5-10 Anibar International Animation Festival, Kosovo 2014, Sept 4-7 Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, USA 2014, Sept 22-Oct 4 Olho, 1st Animation Film Festival, Portugal 2014, Oct 9-Nov 22 Subtravelling Festival, Spain 2014, Oct 15-19 Woodstock Film Festival, USA 2014, Oct 17-26 Filmets, Badalona Film Festival, Spain 2014, Oct 24-Nov 2 London International Animation Festival, UK 2014, Nov 24-30 International Short Film Festival Courts Devant, France Best Canadian Short

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Woulg - Ghost Teaser Video Generative, Sound Responsive Visuals commissioned by Outlier Recordings

This algorithm allows nodes in an interconnected web to dance by using a weighted probability engine to synthesis a “creative energy”. The nodes and their environment respond and are guided by the frequency, volume and timbre of the sound. It was commissioned by Outlier Recordings for the release of “Ghost” by Woulg in Summer 2013.

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Pixelate with Jennifer Vallis with the support of the CE3C Lab

Pixelate is a multi-touch, interactive installation that was installed at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary, Canada. The projections and audio react to multiple touch points and change dramatically based on how many touch points are detected. Certain aspects of the installation are only visible/audible if three or more people are touching the screen at one time. The idea was to create a discussion about the one-to-one relationship that users typically have with computers.

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Farming Ordinary Wind Chimes Generative Audio/Visual Performance

This installation/performance was performed at the Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary, Canada. I wrote a program that allowed three laptops (running on battery power and using their internal speakers), to communicate with each other over a wireless network in order to improvise music. The performance is based around the idea of the breath; each computer relies on input values from the other two computers in order to make a "breath" of sound. The "breaths" are expressed as microtonal sine wave drones, and by the modulating screen brightness of the laptops. The sine wave drones are similar in frequency and therefore create a binaural beating (more about binaural beating). The performance lasts as long as the laptops can continue to perform without running out of battery power. As each laptop runs out of batteries, the interaction degrades and the performance comes to a close.

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Swimming With Pask with Derek Demassi

with the support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and featured in the Journal of Computational Media Design (http://issuu.com/laurel_j/docs/cmdj05_final_2/41?e=0)

Swimming with Pask is a digital media performance/installation that uses software and technology to give bioluminescent algae creative agency allowing it to perform audio/visual collaborative improvisations.  Bioluminescent algae are suspended in vessels that are connected to a circuit and a speaker. The circuit senses the conductivity of the water in which the algae are submersed. Each suspended circuit transmits the sensory data wirelessly to the other suspended circuits. The data is then used as input for a generative music algorithm.  As each circuit produces a sound it also spins a tentacle through the algae; this agitates the algae, which causes it to bioluminesce.

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Republik Stage and Venue Environment Design with Jennifer Vallis and Derek Demassi

I worked with a small team to make the stage design and an interactive light installation for the venue “Republik” for Sled Island 2011 in Calgary. We designed a backdrop for the stage onto which Derek Demassi and I projected generative and sound reactive visuals, some of which we coded live during the event. We also created a swarm of interactive firefly lights that hung above the audience, and lit up in interconnected patterns when the audience reached up and touched them.

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What We Have Interactive Lighting Design for Contemporary Dance with Sheri Burt

Sheri and I were commissioned to create a piece for the opening of the new performance centers in Falmouth in the summer of 2010. I created motion reactive lighting that reacted to movement detected on stage. The lighting created a positive feedback loop that interwove elements of glitch and algorithmic "personality" into the piece. We referred to it as "the blob" during the creation of the piece, and it's bizarre and irregular reactions to the dancers were a key aspect of the concept. The dancers were asked to improvise certain sections based on how they perceived that "the blob" felt on the particular day of rehearsal or performance.

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Interactive Tent at Motion Notion with Jennifer Vallis and Wrong Electron

We created a Reactable clone and an Interactive Dance floor that controlled the visuals in the Interactive Tent that was part of the Main Stage at Motion Notion Festival. The fiducial markers on the blocks that sat on top of the table surface were tracked by a camera inside the table, and their motion, location and rotation was mapped to various visual elements of the projections (which we adjusted and live coded during the duration of the festival). The interactive dance floor was created by Wrong Electron, but we used the output values in conjunction with the Reactable output values to create a more complex and evolving interaction. Based on where people were standing and if they were moving controlled the methods in which their interaction with the Reactable controlled the visuals.

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Wiimote Motion Tracking with La Caravan Dance Theatre

For the “La Soirée” performance by La Caravan, I used a wiimote, hidden in the dancer’s costume, to enable the dancer to control a video projection algorithm that transformed her movement into a dancing geometric pattern. The sensitivity of the wiimote controller is very high so every tiny muscle contraction triggers a corresponding movement in the projection, as if extending the intention of the dancer outwards through the light on her and the wall behind her.