We want YOUR music for the Incredible Music Machine!

[guff]

Are you a music producer and want to be a part of the first truly interactive dance floor?

The Incredible Music Machine is a fully interactive music experience, built upon the idea of an interactive dance floor where the participants create and mix the music themselves. Burners lend their bodies and minds to the rhythm, and heed its call for labor. The artists pick up from where they left off last year at Burning Man with their installation The Grand Flat Piano, a 80' electric piano people played with their feet (http://www.facebook.com/GrandFlatPiano). This year, with The Incredible Music Machine, they will connect participants to music to form a whole, The Incredible Music Machine.

L’homme machine and music machine come together in a cybernetic organism, producing an extended musical experience stimulated by the spiraling interaction between mind and matter. Compelled to engage, you touch the mechanical works with your hands, steer the wheels, pull the levers, stretch the springs and dance. The perimeter of your body dissolves as the apparatus listens intently to you, and you bring your energy in tune with the machine, making it come alive! Participants will enjoy and be a part of a truly unique music event that can not be reproduced or downloaded. Here are only the makers and their creation, a music and dance environment that can truly only be experienced.

We are now are seeking creative and talented DJs and producers to become a part of this Burning Man art installation by contributing a diverse collection of sounds and music that participants will manipulate with a number of interaction devices, separate art pieces that can be interacted with (levers, wheels, pumps, buttons, etc.). These will all be connected to a computer which will use the input from each device to control different aspects of the music written or adopted for the machine. The computer will be running music software with a custom made MIDI interface (the main software being used is Ableton Live and Cycling 74 MAX). This, in turn, controls a computer running the interactive music piece. The project is truly collaborative, with both open source hardware and an open standard for writing music. Artists from all around the world are invited to write their own pieces for the machine.

The Incredible Music Machine artists are looking for a dream team of DJs and musicians to collaborate on this project with them. Artists interested in becoming a part of this unique art experience should contact chief artists Gustaf Josefsson at [email protected], and Olle Bjerkås at [email protected], and also CC Burning Man Art PR Project Manager, Ryan Wilson, at [email protected].

For more information and video demos of the Incredible Music Machine please visit: http://www.incrediblemusicmachine.se

[Miles]

Sent you an email - very exciting !