{"id":2031,"date":"2020-05-13T18:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expo.calarts.edu\/2020\/?page_id=2031"},"modified":"2020-05-14T05:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T05:44:04","slug":"carl-burgin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/expo.calarts.edu\/2020\/carl-burgin\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Burgin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These are the four final projects from the 2020 \"Mechatronic Art & Music\" course. Each student was tasked with opened ended assignment of designing and creating their own electro-mechanical device related to their personal creative practice. Carl Burgin, Trevor Bock, Charles Danner, Cy Krafft & Kai-Luen Liang<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tomorrow There Will Be Wind ( Automatic Windchimes )
\nA performance of playing an Arduino controlled set of wind chimes.
\nVibration motors are activated through a motor driver creating divisions and
\npolyrhythms based on various “states.” First iteration prototype with beer
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4-Note Bottle Blowing Instrument<\/p>\n

I have always loved the angelic sound that is produced by blowing into an empty glass
\nbottle. The combination of wind noise and the ringing sine wave tone that resonates out of the
\nbottle creates a fascinating timbre that is impossible to perfectly replicate digitally. What if you
\ncould mechanically create this sound and produce beautiful melodies to perform with it? This is
\nwhat inspired me to create the 4-Note Bottle Blowing Instrument. This device contains four
\nsmall fans attached to DC motors mounted in a specific way to effectively blow air into each of
\nthe bottles. This causes them to resonate and create a fairly loud sine tone. Each bottle is
\nindividually tuned by raising and lowering the amount of water inside them. Using an Arduino,
\nthe instrument will then perform a sequence of notes by fading the fans in and out from left to
\nright. This allows musicians to tune each bottle accordingly and create any four part melody
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This work in progress was inspired by a love of old school liquid light shows and a fascination
\nwith the precise engineering of the inside of a moving head. The goal is to repurpose the
\ninternal mechanisms from used Clay Paky Alpha Spot and Alpha Wash fixtures to create an
\nanimating liquid light show in the beam of the fixtures.
\nI began with the Alpha Wash fixtures due to the less complex internal layout. However, due to
\nthe limited range of beam effects in the fixture, the color wheels were my first choice for
\nmodification. The challenge with the color wheels was adapting the rotational movement of the
\ncolor wheels into the vertical movement of a plate.
\nThe first iteration of this design is made of two clear discs connected by a silicone tube to create
\na sealed container that is then filled with the dyed oil and water. The two discs can then be
\noscillated against each other through the use of a ridged gear on the inside of the metal plates
\nholding the discs. This creates the fluid movement associated with traditional liquid light shows.
\nIn addition, the entire mechanism can be moved in and out of the beam to add or remove the
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Ernestine and Delilah Ernestine and Delilah navigate their love in an apocalyptic world. Collaborators: Claire Brnjac https:\/\/vanessakwan.art\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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15 Pendulums This is a Unity-based video piece, inspired by Reich’s Pendulum Music, but with a microtonal tuning based on a 1-3-5-7 combination-product set. The fundamental of this tuning is an upper 2\/1 partial of the Schumann resonance 7.83 Hz. This Schumann resonance is basically the resonant frequency of the Earth\u2019s electromagnetic field. Here is […]\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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F\u00f8rg\u00f8tten – A Contemporary Ballet for the Soul. This art performance is about social justice in the 21st century, bringing to light the reality that our society now lives with police brutality. Many of my family members have had to have the “police” talk, “hoodie” talk, or “walking-out-late-at-night” talk with their teenagers, warning them that […]\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The Naked Hours For 100 hours, I cut 2 x 2 inches black paper with scissors and covered the L-Shape Gallery walls at the California Institute of the Arts. I did not speak. I did not use a cell phone or other electronics. I ate, rested, wrote, and meditated as necessary. I left the gallery […]\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Lights Lights of a carousel illuminating the dark sky https:\/\/syvargas470.wixsite.com\/website<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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calvery xp faith in the 21st century and a look at the possible events- there is a chamber of people found in a basement of a prison who have been there since the late 1900’s suddenly an execution order has been created for all 144’000 souls and NOW an agent from the feds is investigating […]\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Multimeda recordings of spontaneous music: prompts for assembling sound and image, running remote-distanced seances, and\/or time-based annoyance. CalArts Percussion Ensemble: Morgan Alford, Kristyna Svihalkova, Henry Delargy, and Eric Lennartson Free Improvisation Ensemble: Camille Kiku Belair, Maria Alejandra Bulla, Rebecca Drapkin, Hazel Feiner, Brian Griffith, Jeremy Rosenstock, Adam Zuckerman, Kai Cleaveland, Stefany Glik, Bjorn Gustafsson, Terry […]\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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