NewsGigs in Sydney
aa-cell performed three nights in Sydney from September 28 - 30. Two nights were as a headline act at Threshold and the last night at the new Carridgeworks venue with Andrew Johnson/Ben Marks and Ernest Edmonds/Mark Fell.
Gig at ICMC, Copenhagen
As part of the concert program of the International Computer Music Conference, aa-cell (Andrew Brown and Andrew Sorensen) played their live coding show at the Huset venue in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Wednesday evening August 29, 2007. This was part of the peer selected program at the ICMC conference. They also presented an academic paper on their live coding practices at the conference as a demo session. This post has a photo of aa-cell at the venue.
Gig at ACMC, Canberra
In his review for RealTime of the Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC) 2007 Dan MacKinlay states:
"The crowd favourite this year seemed to be aa-cell, a collaborative project between Andrew Brown and Andrew Sorenson based around Sorenson’s open-source project Impromptu. Impromptu is a Mac OS based application, combining a plug-in-based architecture with a live-coding scripting interface. The result, in aa-cell’s hands, is a complex, agile improvisational journey that pares composition progress back to the naked sonification of algorithms—and, because this is the 21st century, the bloody thing churns out visuals too. As academically rigorous as the compositional technique may be, it’s still plain old techno and wouldn’t get a look-in the door of any classical music school in the country. aa-cell shares the popular focus that predominates in the live-coding scene, honestly reflecting ACMA’s own drift from its high-art origins."
Gig at The Loft, Brisbane
A video of a recent live coding performance by aa-cell is available for viewing (in three parts) on youTube or as a complete higher quality download from the Impromptu web site.
aa-cell are a livecoding duo based in Brisbane, Australia. We perform by writing the computer code for our music as part of the performance, often projecting our screens for the audience to watch the process unfold. The pieces you hear on this site are single takes of such performances; there are no edits or mixing. We use the Impromptu software environment written by Andrew Sorensen for our music making. Impromptu also allows live coding of graphics and video too.
