6.6 Public Performances and Demonstrations

The full Gesture Construction system was put to the test for numerous public demonstrations and performances throughout 1999. These included the opening celebration of the Boston Cyberarts Festival at Boston’s Computer Museum, the COAXIAL musical weekend at the Middle East Club in Cambridge, "Digital Rewind," (the 25th anniversary celebration of the MIT Experimental Music Studio), my

doctoral thesis defense, and a segment on the "Here and Now" radio program on WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio station. Future performances have also been scheduled, including the upcoming "SENS*BLES" event at the MIT Media Lab. In addition, numerous public and private demonstrations of the system have been given at the MIT Media Lab. While the system is in many ways still new and not yet mature, these sessions can be said to have been successful in introducing the idea and proving the promise of the concept of physiological/gestural control of musical structure.

Figure 44. The author performing at "COAXIAL" at the Middle East Club in Cambridge as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, May 1999.
Photo credit: John Luca, Delsys Inc.
 
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