Coming up: Sonic Art Series Presents: Jamie Beverley, “Smartphone Soundscapes,” April 13, 2018
“Smartphone Soundscapes” a two-part performance during April Art Crawl 2018 by artist Jamie Beverely. PART 1 - 7:30PM PART 2 - 9PM JAMIE BEVERLY Jamie Beverley is a programmer-artist based in Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario. Jamie’s artistic practice is rooted in musical live-coding using Tidalcycles and SuperCollider. He has been a member of McMaster University’s Cybernetic Orchestra since 2014, and has performed (solo or collaboratively) at three international conferences (ICLC 2016/2017, NIME 2017). “Smartphone Soundscapes” Smartphone Soundscapes is an improvised musical live coding performance distributed over audience smartphones. Lend your phone to the Smartphone Soundscapes network and appreciate your unique position in an evolving array of smartphone speakers that is supported by a stereo PA system. In this performance I will navigate a diverse range of soundscapes that are made possible by a large collection of audience devices capable of processing and synthesizing sounds. Through a custom-built live coding interface programmed in Tidalcycles and SuperCollider I will write code to orchestrate sounds on audience devices that are connected to the network. A web application hosted over the network receives messages from my computer, and leverages Web Audio technology to synthesize sounds. By projecting my computer screen, I invite the audience to engage with my code and recognize how changes made to the algorithms are reflected in the soundscape.