Joshua Pablo Rosenstock » max/msp/jitter

Broadcast 25 Patch

Josh — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:10:16 +0000

Inspired by traditional quilt patterns and the impending end of analog broadcast TV, this generative piece is based on a software algorithm that autonomously remixes the video stream.

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TV – It Gets the Job Done Right

Josh — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:03:58 +0000

In this installation live broadcast TV programs on 11 televisions are continuously remixed into a rhythmic, stroboscopic composition. It functions automatically, cycling among preprogrammed patterns, yet with a strong element of indeterminacy due to the unpredictable content.

This piece manifests the attraction/ repulsion relationship I have with TV. It provides a hyper-stimulating barrage of fast-paced images and sounds, yet frustrates attempts to actually ‘watch’ it in a conventional sense.

Created as the culmination of my MFA in Art & Technology, this electronic installation is run by a MAX/MSP/Jitter patch that both outputs video samples and talks to a PIC microcontroller. The PIC is programmed in C with my rhythmic pattern algorithms and controls custom video switching electronics.

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Duet For Alto & Tenor Televisions

Josh — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:06:21 +0000

Duet for Alto and Tenor Televisions is a performance piece using an electronic video/music instrument of my own design. In the improvised performance, tiny snippets of historical found footage are obsessively re-examined and remixed into a live sonic and visual collage. Shifting loops intensify the grain of the voice and image, the micro-gestures of the filmed subjects, and the rhythms that fall into and out of phase as the material is dynamically recombined.

The analog synth-inspired instrument consists of a custom hardware controller interface containing a usb joystick control board wired to a variety of knobs and button banks, as well as a pair of mini lcd screens and digital-analog video scan converters. The interface is connected to a Max/MSP/Jitter software application I built, which contains video and audio sampling, triggering, and effects modules.

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Britton Bertran did an interview with me about this project for the now-defunct Panel House art criticism website.

Funk Improvisation For One Performer and Archival Dancers

Josh — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:07:04 +0000

My first piece that linked musical gesture to video processing.
Programmed in Max/MSP/Jitter, this piece is conceived as a dialogue between myself as musical performer and the dancing figures contained in the video material. The visual qualities of the video playback are controlled by the sounds generated by my bass, and my playing is in turn influenced by the randomly-generated combinations of video clips, video filters, and audio loops.

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Ethel

Josh — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:15:59 +0000

When I started my graduate studies at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 I built the first version of my video sampler. This was something I’d been dreaming about for years, and at the time it was a major accomplishment for me to be able to make it myself. ‘Ethel’ was one of my early experiments using the video sampler. Make sure to follow the bouncing ball and sing along!

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