{"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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This is a text setting of excerpts from “Notes on the Cinematograph” and “Au Hasard Balthazar” by Robert Bresson. The work is composed for speaking pianist.<\/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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A class album and some videos Nina Flagg, Medusa<\/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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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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Travel.Connect Finding connections in this world…<\/p>\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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Still Growing “Still Growing” is a short solo created in the restrictions of my home surrounded around a stool. It is a study on time and growth, striving to show that we are “still growing” in this time of quarantine.<\/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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The Net and the Self “The Net and the Self is an interactive music and dance installation mirroring our networked society. The audience enter in a room illuminated by UV blacklights where dancers and musicians interact through an amplified harp that has its strings connected with fluorescent fishing lines attached to the walls. The installation […]\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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Happy Headroom \u201cHappy Headroom\u201d was part of my mid-residency show titled \u201cLiving Threads\u201d in February 2020. The immersive installation consisted of 4-channel video and sculptures. In this video, my mom and I perform rituals as a visceral process to create a dialogue between changing states of self and site. Hair, simultaneously dead and living, functions […]\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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