Lesley Flanigan ITP

The score for my NIME performance this coming Thursday night is as follows:

5 Voices for 5 Speakers -- click for audio sketch
(Approx.10-15 min long)

1. Introduction
Speakers are introduced one at a time. Singers are brought in one at a time, sustaining a single note, breathing at random intervals.

2. Off/On
All voices (speakers and singers) turn off and on 4x simultaneously.

3. Half Step
With speakers holding notes, Singers are led as a group up and down by a half step based on their independent note 4x. Then led 3x on a long sustain of their note. After the 3rd long sustain, singers repeat the pattern from the intro of sustaining a single note, breathing at random intervals.

4. Sampling
Speakers voices are sampled one at a time, then singers are sampled one at a time.

5. Sequencing
Singers and speakers stop, leaving the sampled sequencing of their voices to be mixed, manipulated, and amplified.

6. Solo
One speaker is performed as a solo. One singer (myself) performs a solo voice.

7. Climax
With all samples running, the 5 speakers and 5 singers are led back into the performance one at a time. Singers repeat the pattern of sustaining a single note, breathing at random intervals.

8. Reprise Half Step
Singers are led as a group back through the Half Step, ending after the 3rd long sustain.

9. End
All fade out except one sample, one speaker, and one voice (mine).

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http://www.seseyann.com/headphonespace/

HEADPHONE SPACE

Modified headphones explore a sensory relationship between private and public space mediated by an object.

Headphone Mediation
Mediating technologies play a unique role in the space between our conscious and unconscious activities, affecting the information we may or may not perceive, process, and interpret in our daily lives.

More than simply observe or bridge context, these technologies filter context, skewing our sensory relationship with the physical world. Headphones, for example, skew sound.

Listening to music through headphones, we cancel out the sounds of the people talking and traffic whistling, choosing to exist in a silent cinematic world narrated only by our selected, personal soundscape.

We are challenged not only with new ways of hearing, but new ways of interpreting sound. New meanings emerge from the hyper-real contexts these mediating technologies manifest.

Headphone Recorder:
Headphones that allow the user to record the external sounds missed while listening to internal music.



Headphone Mixer:
Headphones that allow the user to mix volume levels of the external and internal sounds to create a sonic blend of private/public auditory space.



Headphone Heterotopia:
Two headphones that invert and displace the spatial relationships of two users by capturing the external sound space of their environment and amplifying it as the internal sound space of the other.

Headphones are built by discreetly modifying the circuitry of pre-existing, commercial headphones.

Current developments include Multiuser Headphones, Phonehead Headphones, I Need You Headphones, Performance Headphones, and Poetry Headphones.

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