Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art 2006
February 22 - 26, 2006: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Featured Artist: Randy Jones
Randy Jones is a composer and software designer whose work focuses on interrelated sounds and images. He has performed his visual music at Vancouver’s New Forms Festival, the Technicolor audiovisual performance series in Berlin, the Northwest Film Forum’s Visual Music Festival in Seattle, and most recently at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference in Vancouver.
Other projects have included tour visuals for the band Radiohead, a video piece "Lunarlanderlegs" shown in the Sonar Festival in Barcelona in 2001, and a permanent installation of visuals for Seattle's aro.space in 1998. In 2000 he collaborated with Radio Drum virtuoso Andrew Schloss in composing and performing "UNI," a structured audiovisual improvisation. The duo performed "UNI" at the LEAPS festival in Vancouver BC, at the Festival de Música Electroacústica in Havana, at the Spring Concert at Stanford University’s CCRMA and at the opening of Seattle's Experience Music Project.
Since 2000 he has worked with Cycling ’74 to create Jitter, a graphics and matrix-processing addition to the popular Max/MSP software. Jones designed and coded Jitter’s suite of 3D graphics objects, and wrote the related user documentation and tutorials. Recently he has worked on various programming projects including the Jitter 1.5 update and "Flow," a permanent Jitter-based art installation by Andrew Schloss and Dale Stammen at the new Seattle Public Library in Ballard.
Jones has also had a long-time interest in electronic dance music; he co-founded the Orac Records label with Konstantin Gabbro to foster boundary-pushing in dancefloor styles. His debut album, "The Return of Caro," was released on the label in the Spring of 2005.
Visit Randy Jones' website: www.2uptech.com