soundpedro 2021 participation: VBODOBV | dEvolution: Au Naturel & June 5th Audioscapes
Pour Your Own (Musique) Concrète

Sculptor, videographer, and electronic music composer Dave Ayer studied art and physics in the US and has been building electronic and virtual performance instruments since 1987. His musical oeuvre ranges from conventional songs and lyrics to experimental electronics and freestanding sound sculptures.

Committed to the open-source and creative commons communities, Dave makes much of his work available online for others to reuse and remix. In this spirit, he launched the wikiGong.com web site in July 2009.
Artist Location: San Jose, CA
Social Media: Artist Website

Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021:
Pour Your Own (Musique) Concrète Live
PYO(M)C is a software instrument for mashable sample playback, an implementation of the wikigong.com mission statement:

"Inspired by the Indonesian gamelan ensemble, we catalog the sounds made by real megastructures and in so doing enable virtual instruments."

Based on the experimental "musique concrète" pioneered by French composer and sound engineer Pierre Schaeffer, PYO(M)C is a sonic playground inviting its audience to compose new works spontaneously. Participants select from dozens of samples wikiGong has recorded over the past ten years--bronze sculptures, trains, suspension bridges, abandoned buildings--and then modify and assemble these into an ambient, multi-track sound collage.

Proposed by wikiGong.com in 2020 as a machine-music installation with hands-on audience controls, PYO(M)C has been reimagined as a dedicated web page suitable for the pandemic era. The artist proposes to formally launch this new web client version at soundpedro 2021.

An on-site A/V installation will allow the artist to improvise and perform a new work. Subsequent visitors can modify the resulting work or begin anew. A tutorial-style introduction will be offered for smartphone users in the audience.

Pour Your Own (Musique) Concrète
PYO(M)C is a software instrument for mashable sample playback, an implementation of the wikigong.com mission statement:

"Inspired by the Indonesian gamelan ensemble, we catalog the sounds made by real megastructures and in so doing enable virtual instruments."

Based on the experimental "musique concrète" pioneered by French composer and sound engineer Pierre Schaeffer, PYO(M)C is a sonic playground inviting its audience to compose new works spontaneously. Participants select from dozens of samples wikiGong has recorded over the past ten years--bronze sculptures, trains, suspension bridges, abandoned buildings--and then modify and assemble these into an ambient, multi-track sound collage. Subsequent visitors can modify the resulting work or begin anew.

Proposed by wikiGong.com in 2020 as a machine-music installation with hands-on audience controls, PYO(M)C has been reimagined as a dedicated web page suitable for the pandemic era. The artist proposes to formally launch this new web client version at soundpedro 2021.