Archive for May, 2011
goodbye suffolk and @aldeburghmusic, we’ll miss you! archives to appear very soon.
Monday, 30 May 2011
twenty-four hours complete. thanks to all of our visitors and listeners, and of course to the elements… variable 4 signing out.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
just passed our 100,000th data reading. temp 20.62°C, solar radiation 1046w, humidity 54.79%, wind direction 236°, wind speed 1.7m/s.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
a luminous dawn, and the sun is finally breaking through! watch the night elapse & listen here: http://www.variable4.org.uk/stream/video
Sunday, 29 May 2011
thanks to all who visited or listened today, we’ll be streaming all through the night.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Snape Maltings night report
We’re twelve hours into Variable 4 Snape Maltings and layering up for nighttime under the Suffolk sky. Thanks to everybody who caught the coach to join us this afternoon — after a long period of grey skies, the sun eventually broke through to herald its departure.
Remote viewers can listen to our audio stream, and view a fantastic ongoing timelapse video of the site courtesy of the endlessly skilled Louis Mustill.
sunset soundtracked by @alexcello‘s ethereal cello harmonics http://www.variable4.org.uk/stream/
Saturday, 28 May 2011
an amazing, ongoing timelapse of #variable4 courtesy of @louismustill – http://www.variable4.org.uk/stream/video
Saturday, 28 May 2011
we’re go! apologies for the delay, but a live audio stream & atmospheric conditions can be found at http://www.variable4.org.uk/stream/
Saturday, 28 May 2011
some magnificent (and obscenely huge) signage, thanks to @aldeburghmusic http://twitpic.com/5395vj
Friday, 27 May 2011
details of coach pickup are winging their way to coachgoers now. please note the slight change of location to shoreditch high street!
Friday, 27 May 2011
tom @fasterthantwitt circular sawing into the earth for speaker cable trenches http://twitpic.com/52t9oq
Thursday, 26 May 2011
for those travelling by coach, we’ll be sending out info later tonight. last few tickets still available: http://www.variable4.org.uk/coach
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Weather forecast
Snape Maltings weather forecast for today: something for everyone. The ideal conditions for Variable 4.
thanks to @thequietus for today’s feature on variable 4: http://thequietus.com/articles/06337-variable-4-snape-maltings-faster-than-sound
Thursday, 26 May 2011
BWS-200 weather station details
up and running with our mp3 streaming server, all set to broadcast a stereo mix of the piece over the whole weekend.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Variable 4 Aldeburgh, Days 1+2
Here in Aldeburgh, the first couple of days of setup have been arduous but fun. Thanks to herculean efforts, we’ve now got speaker trenches dug, circuitous cable runs laid, an operational weather station, an ad hoc surround-sound mixing room with iOS remote controls, a networked outhouse via festooned CAT-5, some lightboxed signage and — imminently — a beautifully-printed artists book to mark and document the installation.
Equipment
We’re departing early tomorrow morning to spend a week’s residency at Aldeburgh, to install, develop and fine-tune the piece in situ. To assemble the requisite vanload of materials and equipment without losing the remnants of our sanity, we’ve created the longest kit list known to humankind. Behold.
Snape Maltings
On the estuary banks of the rivers Alde and Ore, the Snape Maltings arts complex — the soon-to-be home for Variable 4 — has a rich heritage. It is made up of a collection of former Victorian malthouses, which were subsequently discovered by composer Benjamin Britten as a suitable site for a creative hub for the south-east. Britten and Peter Pears led the 1960s redevelopment of the site for their fast-growing annual Aldeburgh Festival, featuring a huge auditorium and several rehearsal spaces.
The auditorium was tragically destroyed by a fire on the opening night of the festival, but was rapidly rebuilt and restored to operation the following year. Now owned by the Aldeburgh Music organisation, it is today used year-round for a large number of concerts, residencies and teaching, alongside countless other attractions: cafes, shops, galleries and tearooms, with food that Variable 4 can highly vouch for.
one year exactly since variable 4 dungeness. one week exactly till variable 4 snape maltings.
Saturday, 21 May 2011
#ff for our ace extended production team: @davecharleswrth @louismustill @lumintwitts @ceciliawee @aldeburghmusic
Friday, 20 May 2011
photo documentation of yesterday’s installation at @goldsmithsUOL: http://www.variable4.org.uk/news/402
Friday, 20 May 2011
Field test, 21 May 2011
Much of the development of Variable 4 has taken place at Goldsmiths, University of London, split between the multiple studios of the EMS (former home to Daphne Oram and much pioneering electronic synthesis) and the GDS (new home to a cutting-edge motion capture setup with 3D audio and projections). We’ve also received logistical funding from the Goldsmiths Annual Fund, an excellent endeavour to support a diverse range of projects through alumnal donations.
We thus thought it apt to select Goldsmiths as the site of a showcase and public testbed for the installation, over the course of 6 hours yesterday. This turned out to be an invaluable dry run for the newly-enlarged score and algorithmic setup, and attracted a number of inquisitive visitors.
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