SYNAPSE

You doing something for 2013 BM? Interested in seeing this used in a more contemplative way

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:58:49 -0400

Yes we are!!!!! I think this’ll appeal to you - it’s much more zen: http://kck.st/XtXAtA (if it’s interesting to you, please tell your friends, we can use all the help we can get)

Design - Robin Arnott Audio Director - Kendall Clark Visuals -...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:46:00 -0500

Design - Robin Arnott

Audio Director - Kendall Clark

Visuals - Elijah Parker

Production - Chris Wunderlich

i want to help

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:06:36 -0400

E-mail me

robertlarnott@gmail.com

Looking for the SYNAPSE tools by Ryan Challinor? Go here:

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:49:07 -0400

Looking for the SYNAPSE tools by Ryan Challinor? Go here:

This is a little older - some more Kinect data we may implement...

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:55:17 -0400

This is a little older - some more Kinect data we may implement with the visuals.

Here’s that youtube video from Ryan.

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:53:35 -0400

Here’s that youtube video from Ryan.

Here’s a new still from our programmer Ryan, experimenting...

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:53:13 -0400

Here’s a new still from our programmer Ryan, experimenting with getting some of the Kinect data directly to the projections. Really awesome stuff.

Also from Ryan, if you’re making your own Kinect/Ableton project, be sure to check out his youtube video on getting Kinect Data to directly control Ableton parameters - in this video for dubstep style control. These Max for Live patches are going to be made publicly available. And the UI is super friendly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbyxLL1Vbbw

Here’s what it’ll look like on Playa. But with more...

Mon, 23 May 2011 16:19:49 -0400

Here’s what it’ll look like on Playa. But with more frills.

So what is Synapse?

Sun, 22 May 2011 14:27:41 -0400

Infinite Intimate Connections

Synapse is an interactive project designed to celebrate the infinite intimate connections between people. We want to encourage a state of euphoria through play, sexuality, tribal dance, and flow. One “player” unlocks the music and psychedelic projections by dancing within the soundscape in front of a Kinect camera. The audience is situated in a comfortable environment to soak in the audio/visual experience.

The installation goes through four stages.

Play - Kids: Laughing children, playful bursts of color, and playful music

Intimate - Sex: Heavy breathing and moaning, internal sounds of the body, visuals of fire, faces, and intimate close ups, thick dance music

Tribal - Gaia: Natural sounds of the forest, mandalas created with natural footage of water and earth, tribal percussion music

Flow - Cosmic: Frequencies and feedback loops, spacey drone, solfeggio healing frequencies, cosmic mandalas and fractals

Let me introduce you to the main team! I’m Robin Arnott -...

Sat, 21 May 2011 17:26:05 -0400

Visualist, Elijah Parker

Project and audio lead, Robin Arnott

Kinect Programmer, Ryan Challinor

Let me introduce you to the main team!

I’m Robin Arnott - my last project was “Deep Sea”, pictured above. It was an experiment in immersion using negative feelings (fear, suffocation) - for me Synapse is a departure into much more positive/euphoric territory. Professionally, I’m a sound designer at WRAUGHK

Elijah Parker is our visual designer. He comes on board with a great deal of practical experience in abstract/euphoric art. His work at Subliminal Phoenix is awesome, and you should check it out.

Ryan Challinor, (above, as last sighted by the press) is the man who makes Synapse work! Professionally, Ryan’s a programmer at Harmonix, and he comes up with intelligent solutions for Elijah’s and my weird impractical ideas.

Are you a noisemaker?!

Wed, 18 May 2011 20:07:47 -0400

If so, Synapse needs YOU! We want to experimental audio artists, electronic musicians, and all masters of sound and music that makes you move. If you’re interested in taking part in this unique interactive experience, click the “Want to Help?” link to the left. We’d love to hear from you!

Hey folks! I want to take a moment here to introduce Synapse: an...

Wed, 11 May 2011 18:36:00 -0400

Part of the audio program.

Re-interpreted images

Geometric imagery

Hey folks! I want to take a moment here to introduce Synapse: an installation for Burning Man, 2011 and 2012.

Here’s how it works:

A participant (the “choreographer”) dances or moves on a stage. As they dance, Synapse interprets that movement and produces a rhythmically synesthetic audio/visual trip - intended to lull the minds of reclining observers into a trancelike euphoria. It’s a hippie-driven performance piece, where any burner can take the reigns and design-by-dance a unique synesthetic experience for her fellow burners.

It’s coming along quickly! As you’ll see above, we’ve got a working sequencer that remembers the motions of the “choreographer”. Our visualist, Elijah Parker, has also begun designing the visual system, that sometimes takes a visual feed from the performer (re-interpreted images), while producing geometry that’s directly responding to the “choreographer“‘s rhythms.

Pretty cool! Stay tuned here for more.

You can follow me (@ragamesound) on twitter for more updates!