Two or three years ago a few friends and I said wouldn’t it be great if we could get together a group of people and put on an event which involved music, dance, performance, poetry, multimedia art, lighting AND make the audience feel like they’d been taken on a journey. After meeting in a pub once a week for a number of weeks we decided to call our group ‘Project X Presents’.
Since then we’ve been meeting at least once a week and have put on two crazy events (you can read all about them on our site). Each time we’ve put on an event it has got more and more adventurous and we’ve concentrated slightly more on a different aspect. The first concentrated on the music, the second performance. This summer we’re planning to throw all this together with a good dollop of interactive art and visuals.
We’ve got lots of ideas and are likely to be using ATMega168 series chips and the wonderful Arduino Open Source electronics prototyping platform to provide the basis for a number of these installations. They will probably be connected together in a grid type system with XBee ZigBee adapters by MaxStream. Some of these devices will be directly outputting to either MIDI or DMX512 to connect audience input to the projected visuals. Custom Processing and/or Max/MSP patches will also be conceptualised, designed and written to tie in with input from these devices.I plan on keeping a log what is happening with these projects via this blog.