Floating Point

by Gray Code

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD designed by Lucas Roy of Studio Mercury and originally released on the Circumvention Label in 2010

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Xaphoon 09:19
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Pastoral Detune 05:57
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(Re)Bound 06:45
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Elephantine 04:42
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Bowed Clarinet 08:40
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Dronehead 04:35
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Purvis Bearing 05:07
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Topsy's Hawser 08:08
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about

The TaurEx is a sensor extension for the electric guitar that tracks motion and reads performance gestures in order to provide wireless, real0-time control of computer effects and sampling. Designed and built by Kevin Patton, the interface of the TaurEx allows Patton to control an array of computer effects and processing while playing — including delay, harmonization, granulation, and sampling— with subtle gestures such as hand position and the movement of the guitar neck. There are also force sensors that operate independently and can be assigned to directly control aspects of the computer such as switching between effects scenes.

MiMiCS (macro-instrument musical interface and composition system) is a system designed and built by Butch Rovan that augments acoustic instruments with wireless sensors.The system allows the performer to control real-time processing of the acoustic so8und via three-dimensional motion of the horn; in addition, sensors attached to the body of the instrument allow direct access to processing parameters while playing.At present, Rovan's alto clarinet hosts a MiMiCS system, and he uses it to modify, capture, and mutate the alto clarinet sounds during performance. MiMiCS acts as a controller that Rovan uses to directly process Kennedy's percussion instrument.

credits

released July 1, 2010

Kevin Patton: Guitar+Electronics (TaurEx)
Joseph Butch Rovan: Alto Clarinet + Electronics (MIMICS), soprano clarinet, bass clarinet, xaphoon
Fred Kennedy: Drumset, Percussion

All Compositions by Gray Code: Frederick Kennedy/Kevin Patton/ Butch Rovan

Recorded live at Brown University's Grant Hall and McGill University's Tanna Schulich Hall

SPECIAL THANKS: Jim Moses, CIRMMT, Maria del Carmen Montoya, Katherine Bergeron, Deadra Hart, Brown University Department of Music

Artwork and Album Design by Lucas Roy and Studio Mercury
www.graycode.org

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