Night Club: Nathaniel Bobbitt [Flute] & Peter Thomas [Guitar]
Video based Motion Sensing
"aRM & hAMMER" combines video images with tango gestures by Astor Piazzolla for Flute and Guitar. As in "What's Wrong with this Picture" "aRM & hAMMER": picks apart and picks up the choreography between:
...the flutist's eyes and stretches of a guitarist's arm...
Visual accompaniment in this duet takes a Tango from Astor Piazzolla and makes it into an eye-hand Tango, which brings out much of the gesture and visual cues which the performers use in Piazzolla's History of the Tango: Concert d'aujourd 'hui (Concert of Today).
from Creating Epiphanies: using idomatic sound structures in a composition for a hybrid performance idiom
Christopher Hopkins
Computer Music Studios, Syracuse University
"I discuss Epiphanies, a composition for buzzed flute and electroacoustic sound. Buzzed flute is a hybrid performance idiom developed by Nathaniel Bobbitt, who combines sound production techniques of the C flute with those of instruments such as the trombone or didgeridoo. This combination creates new behaviors of resonance in the flute and requires new techniques for their continuation,progression, and articulation."
Presented at the Art Technology Biennial Symposium (1997) Connecticut College.
