May 2020 – Update at last!
MAY 2020 – UPDATE AT LAST! Hello people! BAGEL here! We last posted many moons ago, and naughty us for not getting news to you sooner of how BAGEL+BALLOON are doing in these strange, globally challenging times. O.O Here is a quick summary: PLANS TO MOVE TO...ICAT Residency Wrap Up
Hello All! BALLOON here giving you a glimpse into our last few days at the CUBE with ICAT. Mostly what I can say is – what a ride!! Combining five disciplines across 2 weeks to make a test of our ideas takes patience, communication and a willing audience, all...Cooking With Sound
BALLOON here – our first few days in the CUBE have flown by and ideas are exploding out of our minds and bodies like popping candy! We drove straight down from Boston to VA in one day and restarted the process of landing in a new place. I use the term ‘landing’...B+B join the Boston Team!
SUMMER IS FELLOWSHIP TIME for ACOUSCOUS! (photo above left to right – Kai/BAGEL, Ryan, Francine/BALLOON, Kat) BAGEL here! Proudly blogging an update about our first 3 days in America for the Acouscous project, all thanx to the ICAT SEAD Fellowship! And how full...Introducing Team Boston!
(up above – the ‘Tesseract’ 24 speaker studio built by Ryan and Kat!) Welcome to the ACOUSCOUS Blog! My name is Kat McManus, representing Team Boston. Shout out to Bagel and Balloon- our creative partners from Old England, who have been immensely...
Living room rehearsal series – Area Triggers!
Living Room Rehearsal series – Part 2 BAGEL here! In our previous blog post we explored the cross-fade setup. In this post we look at area triggering! Our goal was to play a different sound (either on loop or oneshot) depending on where you stood in the...
Living room rehearsal series – the cross fade!
BALLOON ponders over our first experiments in crossfading using positional data!
BAGEL+BALLOON adventures in motion capture and tracking
Connecting motion to data So you want an object/prop to move through space, and you want that movement to affect sound….how many different ways could you do it? These are the types of questions we ask ourselves when playing with technology to tell a story. BAGEL and I...