Short Improvisation #1
Electronically augmented (MIGSI) trumpet and Max MSP. Join me on Patreon! patreon.com/sarahbellereid Sarah Belle Reid is a Canadian performer-composer, active in the fields of electroacoustic trumpet performance, intermedia arts, music technology, and improvisation. www.sarahbellereid.com
Pocket Fig
A semi-improvisation piece for electronics and trumpet, featuring MIGSI, the Minimally Invasive Gesture Sensing Interface. MIGSI connects to any B flat or C trumpet to provide gestural sensor data to a receiving computer.
Pocket Fig (2016)
In this piece, MIGSI sends FSR and IR-collected valve displacement data to Max/MSP to produce a flurry of classic computer music sounds, stutters, and granular synthesis gestures based on the voice and trumpet sounds of the performer, Sarah Belle Reid. The resulting gestures are responsively generated from the player's input, sometimes with added delays and miscalculations to foster variation and generative improvisation.
"Pocket Fig" was written by Sarah Belle Reid and Ryan Gaston in 2016 during MIGSI's early development at California Institute of the Arts.