TSC at the ICMC
August 2, 2011 – Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern performed at the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) held this year at Huddersfield University. Because our sound check was at 1pm and the concert didn’t begin until 10:30pm we had a lot of time to kill. This was a good place to kill it. We attend the Unconference where the use of gesture and visuals were discussed. (Some that attended: Freida Abtan, Adrian Freed, and David Wessel.)
We hung out with Scott Hewitt for a long time. One of the things we discussed was the tool Rod and I want to build that’ll allow me to live sample & synthesize sound via the gestures I already make while painting. He encouraged us to build the hardware, just hunker down, and figure out some of the programming so we’ll have a better understanding of what the thing will do. He said it could be a 10 year long project.
The concert was really well attended. It was held at The Graduate, the university’s on-campus bar. Believe it or not, this crowd of academics got a little rowdy, but people were just having a good time (and were probably very drunk). There were four acts and we went on third. While Rod wasn’t too crazy about it I really liked seeing this one guy do some live coding, projected large on a screen, so you could see what he was doing. It was fun to watch.
Our performance went so-so. Rod and Anton think it went better than I think it went though. I just couldn’t get into it and kept repeating myself. The venue itself was really hot, and this was exasperated by the fact that I perform in front of two really hot work lamps not four feet behind me. After 15 minutes I was dripping sweat and black paint.
The painting is now owned by P.A. Tremblay and can been seen in his office at the university.
these are awesome! i love this sought of style another artist who does stuff similar to this is Yoji Shinkawa hes my fave!
but yeah really good! 
heres a link to his work 
>>> http://thejadednetwork.com/gallery/artbook/Yoji-Shinkawa/The-Art-of-Metal-Gear-Solid/
Thanks Jamie. Glad you’re into it. I checked out that site and I can definitely see a similarity as far as the ‘looseness’ of his marks is concerned, even though its a totally different animal overall. Thanks for posting
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