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Sonic Wire Sculptor iPhone App Demo

A short demo of the Sonic Wire Sculptor app for the iphone. For more details visit http://sws.cc

Rhonda Tutorlal # 2: Prancing Man Exercise

In this tutorial James Paterson draws a simple outline of a human figure, and pops that outline into 3D, using the technique of connecting two points that he expained in the first tutorial. Drawing a prancing man was enough fun with a pen and paper.. Just wait until you draw one with Rhonda!

Rhonda Tutorial # 1: Connecting Two Points

Drawing a line between two points time in a three dimensional environment can be a little disorienting when you are doing it for the first time. In this tutorial James Paterson demonstrates one way to get over this hurdle so that you can move on to transferring all your already existing drawing skills to the world of Rhonda.

Getting started with Rhonda, w/ Zach Lieberman

Rhonda

The hands on the screen belong to James Paterson. He is using "Rhonda", a 3D drawing tool developed by Amit Pitaru circa 2003.The first half of the video shows James doing a drawing start to finish. In the second part James is cycling through various previous drawings, created between 2004 and 2005.For the last several years Rhonda has been shown in galleries, museums, festivals and conferences. We are excited to finally release this video online (about time!). Even more exciting is that our g...

SmashUP: Chain Reaction

This is an excerpt from 'I Am A Chain Reaction' which is one of seven works that make up the dance/animation/programming hybrid project, Smashup. Smashup is the outcome of an ongoing collaboration between artists James Paterson & Amit Pitaru ( Insertsilence ), and dancer/choreographer Dana Gingras ( Animals of Distinction, The Holy Body Tattoo ). Smashup premiered in its complete form, an hour long performance, at the Festival Transamérique in Montreal in the summer of 2008.The animation in th...

Pitaru playing live on the Sonic Wire Sculptor. ...

The Sonic Wire Sculptor (2003) is a musical instrument as well as a traveling installation. When performed or exhibited, the SWS machine is placed in a room with 8-channel speaker system, for a surround-sound experience. In the past 5 years the work has traveled worldwide to such cities as Tokyo, Barcelona, Linz, Montreal, and L.A. In every stop, visitors recorded their works into what has now become a library of thousands of sonic sculptors (video coming soon). The next goal is to release SWS...