Selected Presentations & Appearances
This hybrid artist talk / demonstration will feature recent projects by Quran Karriem, a sound artist, interface designer and current student in Duke’s new Computational Media, Arts and Cultures PhD program. Quran’s work traces the shifting sociopolitical boundaries between bodies, instruments and interfaces across a varied array of emergent live performance and real-time processing idioms.
This event follows a summer residency at the Ruby during which Karriem and his fellow student Rebecca Uliasz worked on Synthball—a lucid digital instrument for gestural control of real-time audio-visual software.
Join cutting-edge artists working through questions of performance and technology and varied relationships to AfroFuturism in their practices and creative production. Lightning artist talks and conversation wind through examples of tending to AfroFuturist possibilities in artmaking and performance.
Where does the body end, and the interface begin? When does an interface become an instrument, and what role does virtuosity play when sound production is dissociated from physical causality? With the increasing use of real-time computation in live settings, what is the relationship between process and performance? This hybrid artist talk / demonstration will feature recent projects by sound artist, interface designer and researcher Quran Karriem, who traces the shifting boundaries between bodies, instruments and interfaces across a varied array of emergent hardware and software instruments and performance idioms.
We will briefly examine an open source electronic music and new media package called Pure Data, then use it to jump into sound generation and control techniques. We'll build a virtual drum machine from scratch, making decisions about the sounds, functions and interface along the way. Participants will leave with exposure to tools for building and customizing tools for sound generation and transformation.