I’m working with Richard Birkin on a project called Rubato (Burton in my codenames). Funded by Sound and Music, it’s a tool for a performer to control visualisations on the audiences’ mobile phones or devices from the stage. Richard’s written up the first stage of the project over at the Sound and Music blog:

In February 2015 I’m releasing a project called Songs For Spoken Words. There are six pieces of instrumental music written to accompany six poems. The poems are animated along with the music, encouraging the reader to follow the rhythm and emphasis of the written words and become part of the performance.

For the performance, I wanted to have the words on a screen while I played the music with a string quartet.

I’ve been working on the core technology, and Richard’s been continuing to work on the visualisation markup.

I also built Richard a footpedal for it, and we made a short film about that:

I’m continuing on this project in early 2015, and it should get some outings at some gigs in February.