video works for mobile contemplation – the 35880004th video on vimeo from Kovacs Balazs on Vimeo.

Part of a series presented on mobile phone. Although these small-format videos are connected to our mobile culture, they’re not to be part of our high-speed life, rather than they invite You for a small contemplation: if one is mobile, then everywhere can perform it…

This works try to present my opinions on connections audio and video. In the case of the file above, there are no direct connections between these modalities, i tried to looking for complementary role of them.

and this is what the users produced in the reality: (please  skip forward to the recording in the dark, around 1 min)

Thanks: ZSKN, ERLA, Dobovicki Attila, Mikolai Martin and the other electronic music students

Screenshot:

Documentation:

- a video presenting it for first

How to get it?

The application is free to use and to develop. The patch, made with MaxMSP/Jitter, can be downloaded below. Any tips and recommendations welcome!

v.06

• Mac: standalone
• Mac: MaxMSP/Jitter patch + collective etc. for 4.6 and above (i think it should work on every 5. and 6.) • if You don’t have  MaxMSP, it’s enough to download the runtime here in order to run the collective
• Windows: standalone (if somebody can help to build and send me, then would be gratefully, anyway needs Quicktime to run)
• Windows: MaxMSP/Jitter patch + collective for 5 (collective doesn’t needs external objects; both needs Quicktime, MaxMSP/Jitter runtime, and many time;)

How to use it?

1. “hardware” setup:

a. just take a piece of paper, and colored pens. currently this software plays red and blue colored objects differently and parallel, so it’s a good start to get such a colored pens.

b. You’ll need a camera as well: webcam or video camera connected via usb, firewire etc…

c. if they’re together, place the camera on a fix position, and turn on. if possible, set white balance, connect to the computer etc.

2. software setup: if connected and working, load this app and select the camera on the top left dropdown menu. choose “open” then click on and hopefully will see the camera image on the small “monitor” window. set  brightness, contrast, saturation and sensitivity if needed to separate the drawing and the background noise of the video, and if it’s ok, You can begin to work..

Credits

The work is part of the Sounds of Pictures sonification project, and is done during a scholarship at UCSB-MAT in 2011-12, supported by Hungarian Eötvös Foundation. Thanks for them to let me do this..

The work extracts a low-level sonification (audification) on details of the painting titled “Factor II”. While navigating the image, the audience can see 3 points in movement above the colors: 1) controls the sound directly, 2) controls the pan of 1, 3) is an additional to 2).
The work was presented in exhibition opening by Eszter Tari in Budapest july 4. 2011, the reconstruction done by Balázs Kovács at UCSB-MAT.

Video-documentation:

Photos on site:

Thanks to the Hungarian Eötvös Foundation, who helps me to be 4 months on the university of Santa Barbara.

The birds being buried on 14th january rally

The birds places on Jókai square, Pécs - 27th january

The birds places on Jókai square, Pécs - 27th january

Before and after the performances we held other actions. For instance a rally on the Kossuth square in Pécs:

Me and Péter Peták take the words of our prime minister Viktor Orbán: "here is democracy"

As parallel audio-art project I started the “TOTAL” tonal-total therapy experiments occasional blog, which was a good place to publish artistic reflexions on politics. Art could be a good therapy to survive current situations. The webpage of TOTAL:

apr1-R09_0025 (accompanied soundfile here)

050725-aldozatt (accompanied soundfile here)

apr13-R09_0028 (accompanied soundfile here)

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07271369-nonint

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Short no-input performance after the opening of the exhibition:

mini performance on the photo biennale pécse by Xrc

Then the rain came and changed my concept for a different one.

Presented in Brno, in mai of 2011, during the City strings week-end.

… but this fact couldn’t help the work to stay on his place without stealing it.