INCARNATION - FEAST 09

Check out our site http://www.gsspirit.com/events.html for our show INCARNATION

Sat and Sun are going to be wild! I'll be playing mixing it up Monday 16th Nov. night for a more chilled laid back session.

Page 33 of the Feast guide other DJ's line up are:

Saturday Night:

10pm-11pm DJ PR
11pm-1am DJ Leroy Brown and DJ CFU
1am-3am DJ Pennydrops

Sunday Night:

6:30pm-8:30pm DJ Leroy Brown and DJ CFU
8:30pm -10pm DJ PR

Monday Night:

5-10pm - DJ Ultima

Nadaum Live - Full Dome Visuals and Space Music (c) 2009 Sacred Resonance

(c) 2009 Sacred Resonance - Nadaum Experiment > Oct 24th 2009 @ Adelaide Planetarium!

Nadaum Music Overview Part 4

The idea behind part 4 of Nadaum Experiment was working with a samples of space sounds that relate to the projected visuals.

i.e Earth Biosphere = earth hum > Chorus waves in Earth's magnetosphere are generated in the Van Allen radiation belts or earth audio frequency electromagnetic waves produced by lightning called - whistlers. Solar Sounds from the sun = Sounds of solar oscillations http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/SOUNDS/ I also used aurora sounds and other sounds from Jupiter and Saturn.

Next I used software 'Live' and placed all samples into their tracks. I thought it would be a great idea to apply effects like reverb, flangers, phasers, panners and resonators that would emulate an artifical space effect of deep space. By this I mean Sounds in space would not sound the same and allowing a filtering effect I was able to make beat sampels of pulsars and warm ambient pads of sounds from space.

Overall was great to work in 'Live' and using real sounds from space.

Nadaum Experiment - Overview @ Adelaide Planetarium Oct 24th

Nadaum Experiment - WAS BOOKED OUT !

We had a great night with two sessions 7pm and 8:30pm - I was performing a couple of sonic-musical pieces during the night.

LOCATION : Adelaide Planetarium http://www.unisa.edu.au/planetarium/ [special thanks to Martin Lewicki].

Visuals using the Zeiss Star Projector were controlled by Bradley Pitt:

Zeiss star projector

The Zeiss star projector was built in Jena, East Germany probably around 1960, unfortunately records have not been kept so no firm date is available. It is hoped that an all-sky projection system can be installed in the near future.The Zeiss can show the relative position of about 5,000 stars. Where as the dome at the Adelaide Planetarium is a plasterboard construction, most modern planetariums have a perforated aluminium dome which enables operators to hide projectors and sound systems behind the dome.

First was sounds of Crystal Bowls by Allen Stevens - are made of the highest quality (99.992% pure!) quartz crystal, making them incredibly resonant. The bowls that were brought were > tones E B C F# G making 5 bowls in total. These sounds reflected the Auroral Lights of the north and south pole with pure harmonics of clear sonics that wash through space like rustling silk. Check these sounds http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/mcgreevy/

Second Playback piece from our CD Nadaum - Sonic DNA Cosmic DNA 8mins http://www.sacredresonance.com.au/musicvideo.html

Third - Playback with Samples created in 'Kontakt' and with Allen Playing Live Crystal Bowls about 12mins working with samples, harmonics based on DNA, Great Pyramid, Sounds from Pulsars.

Fourth Part 1: - Was my new electronic piece just made from space sounds check some here http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/ this was composed in 'Live' > I also with Bradley Pitt created a full dome work for the Adelaide Planetarium from NASA images, Research Associate Professor - Paul Bourke's work and some of Simon Carroll's Aurora footage from New Zealand http://www.simoncarroll.com/ (thanks lots).

Screen grab from 'Live' Nadaum Experiment

Fourth Part 2: I also used a muon detector as part of the performance You can find out more about the particular version of the muon detector that I have been experimenting with here: http://hardhack.org.au/geiger_muller_detector and here http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/09/homemade-muon-detector-and-arduino.html

The idea was to have acutal muons detected as part of the "REAL TIME EXPERIMENT" way cool I thought. Thanks to Robert Hart [see 1st link above]. Seb explains this here also. We worked together and the first 10mins was my compositions with full dome visuals then Seb came in for about 7-8mins with 'Live' and Muon detector + full dome visuals still playing from my section.

Clickto hear audio [video & audio mix is further on in blog]

http://www.sacredresonance.com.au/musicfilessr/nadaumexfinalmix2.mp3

Finished off with Crystal Bowls - Allen and myself playing them.

Everyone loved it!!! Got so many positive comments :) and people thought it was truly comsic!

Here is a post to youtube of the Fourth Part 1 and Part 2: Note is all space sounds are used in my section, Seb has some drum sounds mapped in live to give it that cosmic beat of the universe.

We are doing this all again in Feb 2010 @ Adelaide Planetarium > With new elements. see www.sacredresonance.com.au for more info.

Nadaum Experiment - Space Sonics

Posted by Seb on http://little-scale.blogspot.com/

NADAUM EXPERIMENT - Oct 24th 2009

The two shows put on by Darren Curtis and Bradley Pitt of Sacred Resonance went quite well last night. It was pretty much a sell out crowd in the Adelaide Planetarium.

I think the best aspect of the show was the fact that all of the music and visuals flowed very well - this was in part assisted by the playing of the crystal bowls by Allen Stevens.

In terms of what I did, you can read quite a bit about the mapping of muon detection from a three Geiger tube detector to sonic / musical parameters here. I was pretty happy with the musical outcome; it was paced well and there were no technical issues (what? really?) in terms of my setup.

Some of the NASA footage was amazing, and it was also great to see the analog projector put to use in the planetarium.

Apologies for the lack of footage; I forgot my camera or my video camera.

Here are some the images links:

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