Venue: ELOrlando 2020: Virtual Edition (online)
ELOrlando 2020: Virtual Edition
Singling and the Earful Yearning: A remote, digital, hyper-interactive text-to-MIDI literacoustic jam
Dr. Kedrick James, Rachel Horst, Esteban Morales, Yuya Peco Takeda, Effiam Yung
This is the debut show of Singling, a new text sonification software we have developed to analyze and otherwise perform string data, choosing from a wide variety of linguistic and musical parameters and multilevel parsing of text. Virtual attendees of the performance will be invited to share their thoughts, reactions, poems, and codework with us through the chat function of the video conferencing platform; our program can translate all manner of keyboard symbols, numbers, the English alphabet as well as various classes of words into MIDI code. We will perform the output of this textual data live, using a variety of MIDI-enabled instruments and digital interfaces. Each “song” will take a new portion of text to demonstrate particular settings and parameters for the transmediation of linguistic input to musical output, and feature different combinations of presenter-performers / instruments performing the MIDI code. Through screen sharing, we will show and narrate the choice of text, various settings and combinations of instruments used for each song, and then remotely perform it. Attendees are encouraged to use audio headphones or sound systems to hear the full range of audio frequencies.
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is pleased to announce its 2020 Conference and Media Arts Festival, hosted by the University of Central Florida. Given the current time of global public health crisis, and the travel restrictions in place around the world, we have shifted our conference format to a fully virtual combination of synchronous and asynchronous: for more on this decision, see the letter from the chair.
The main conference and exhibition will be held July 16-18, 2020, online. Some events are co-sponsored by ACM Hypertext 2020 and will occur July 13-15.
The theme for ELO 2020 is “(un)continuity”: participants are invited to explore fluidity and nonbinary concepts, including, representation/presentation; categorization; spectra of light, sound, and ultra/infra visible; social organization; unity; and discord.