For the upcoming Pique event Artengine will be hosting Jesse Stewart in the Studio. Stewart brings his characteristic artistic ingenuity and exceptional performance skills to the event with an interactive piece for a collection of custom built gongs. Built out from the Adaptive Use Musical Instruments (AUMI) tool, one of the passion projects of seminal composer Pauline Oliveros, Stewart has created a system allowing for the audio to play the gongs without ever touching them.
Stewart will perform with the system as part of a launch of the open publication: Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice. You can access this excellent publication, part of the University of Michigan Press, Music and Social Justice Series, here.
More on the AUMI here.