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FLOOD TIDE Thames Festival Sept 12th 2009 - London Bridge City Pier
Flood Tide at the 2009 Thames FestivalPreview and cartoon of Flood Tide in BBC Music Magazine
Flood Tide at Indie London
Article at Nortek-as.com
and more info here at Informal.org
Performances of Flood Tide at Royal Greenwich Observatory 3.30pm 25th and 26th July 2009.
more..Commissioned as part of the 40th anniversary of the moon landings. On Saturday 25th July at 2.15pm there will also be a talk by John Eacott and Dr. Simon Boxall from the National Oceanography Centre Southampton about the ideas behind Flood Tide and how the influence of the Moon on the Earth's water can produce music! Royal Greenwich Observatory, London. Free admission.
Flood Tide performances at RSC River Festival, Stratford upon Avon, 4th and 5th July 2009.
Interactive sound installation "The Street" is featured in Viva Viva, 8-14th December 2008, at P3, 35 Marylebone Road, just opposite Baker Street Station, London.
I'm working with the National Oceanography Centre Southampton to develop a better tide sensor for Flood Tide and have also created a short DVD which is also available on youtube.
Informal win Arts Council Award to develop sonification works 'Flood Tide' and 'Hour Angle'.
Hour Angle Spring Equinox performance at Rose Bruford college 1129am Friday 20th March 2009. More..
Article about John Eacott and Flood Tide in Wheel Me Out
Viva Viva
Interactive sound installation "The Street" is featured in Viva Viva, 8-14th December 2008, at P3, 35 Marylebone Road, just opposite Baker Street Station, London. This piece was made in 2000 by John Eacott and Dr. Ross Clement. It creates a sound environment - or a kind of responsive muzak - from the movement of people passing through the space. Ultrasound hardware design by Fairless Masterman.
Flood Tide
Flood Tide is a sonification of the incoming tidal flow achieved using a sensor measuring the speed of water processed through custom software mapping the gradual changes to musical parameters performed by an acoustic quartet. There have been four performances to date at Trinity Buoy Wharf, Docklands, London June and September 2008. more..
Hour Angle
A sonification of the moment of midsummer Solstice as part of the Pullens 2008 solstice event - Iliffe Yard SE17, 2300hrs, 20th June 2008. Musical content is generated from the gradual slowing down of the Sun's northerly progression untill it halts altogether at 2359 before beginning its slow march south again. This acoustic performance is scored for marimba, vibraphone and 2 celli and is lit by candles and lanterns. Free admission. more..
Intelligent Street
A sound installation in the entrances of the University of Westminster's Harrow Campus and the Interactive Institute, Pitea, Sweden. Users in each space create and adapt their soundspace by sending text messages from their mobile phone. Nov2003. more..
//FLOW = april.fools.electronica
tues 1st April 2003 8 - 11pm
jem
finer - Guitar and various other sound sources v
SuperCollider + (technology permitting) projections and emergent
film.
decimal dust
- semi-improvised abstract glitch electronic space rock
jnrtv -
algorithmic trumpeting
www.informal.org/flow www.publiclife.org
DNA surround sound commission
Surround soundtrack to newly commissioned film about DNA to be housed permanently in a specially commissioned 300 seat surround cinema at the Moorfield Planetarium, Raleigh, North Carolina. Composed by John Eacott for RGB.
sound wares
11 November 2002, Tate Modern. Peter Ride from CARTE / DA2 and John Eacott will examine how sound artists are at the forefront of experimentation with new technologies developing innovative tools and software in which to create new audio content.
Mind Reading nominated for BAFTA award.
New DVD rom by Red Greeen and
Blue company in association with Cambridge University is nominated for a
BAFTA award in the education class. music and sound design
exclusively by john eacott
_p.e.o.n_
23 aug 2002. 19:00 ljusgarden kungl. musikhogskolan, stockholm.
musik by mattias petersson, john eacott, fredrik olofsson and lise-lotte
norelius. cyberinstruments in supercollider, nato.0+55, max, msp
dorkbotlondon 7/8/02
JOHN EACOTT - using software (like supercollider) and hardware (like the trumpet) to make 'hummable' generative music he asks 'Will algorithmic approaches replace purely recorded sound?'
dorkbotlondon@dorkbot.orgPhase - The Dancing City festival, Canary Wharf, Docklands, London
13/7/02 - Live dance performance with Rikke Sundberg with John Eacott performing live generative and responsive instruments at Docklands Festival.
Cybersonica
5/6/02 John Eacott and Mark d'Inverno unveil plans for the the
Intelligent HiFi - iHiFi
www.cybersonica.org
Diffusion - Resonance FM
21/5/02 Informal produce a generative jingle package for the Resonance FM show, Diffusion 104.4 FM
CARTE lecture
22nd April, 6pm - CARTE lecture: 'Encoding & Performing: generative sound and music' Portland Hall University of Westminster little tichfield st. W1 featuring live webjam!
MORPHEUS >> emergent music
Morpheus on tour and on the air! Sunday 3rd March 2002 11pm - 'Mixing
It' BBC3 Radio 3.
14th - 16th March - Lovebytes festival of digital
art, Sheffield Hallam University. www.lovebytes.org.uk
28th March, 2pm - Meeting of interactive musicians, Fylkingen,
Torkel Knutsonsgatan 2, Münchenbryggeriet (T-bana Mariatorget),
Stockhoml, Sweden. Free admission, cheap bar, open 13.00, presentations
at 14.00-15.00
April 14th - MAXIS festival or sound and
experimental music, Sheffield Hallam University.
www.maxis.org.uk
Morpheus - a CD of emergent music was launched at a party on 19th Nov 2001 at the Great Eastern Dining Room. The party featured live performances by four of the six contributors: Lapdance, jnrtv, Alex Marcou and Fabrice Mogini. If you would like to review MORPHEUS send an email with your postal address to John Eacott for a free copy. more info
Global Cafe, 15 Golden Square, London W1F 9JG (Picadilly tube)
8-11pm, Thurs 21st March 2002
Live interactive, generative music and
web jamming featuring:
sick lincoln, Alex Marcou, Fabrice Mogini,
jnrtv and Daniel Beattie. Live webjamming with Fredrik Olofsson in
Stockholm, Ben mintyfresh Milstein in LA and Owain in Brighton!
Free
admission www.informal.org/flow
Escape to Life: the story of Klaus and Erica Mann opens in New York
This gripping documentary feature featuring Vanessa Redgrave and a soundtrack composed by John Eacott opens on the 11th January 2002 in New York. more info
jnrtv plays live
on 13th Dec 2001 at the 4th Generative Art Conference and on 18th Dec 2001 at the CyberSalon, ICA, London. More gigs to follow in 2002
John Eacott teaches in Florida
As Master Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts John taught composing for film and interactive sound installation art at this prestigious arts complex and Stetson University, DeLand, Florida. Previous master artist / musicians include: Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), Cecil Taylor, Milton Babbitt, Louis Andriessen, Terry Riley.
