Particle Castle Bubble Party! is an offshoot of Gib Gab, which are free lessons/conversations/consultations/mentoring/time/support which I’ve been doing for over five years(!) now. The difference being that these conversations are supplemented with inserts and links, edited by Angela Guyton. The idea behind PCBP! is to take what is normally a temporally and (somewhat) spatially-bound conversation and turn it into a more openly-shareable video, so it will hopefully be of interest to others.
Barry Olusegun-Noble Despenza is an experimental Sound Designer + Interdisciplinary artist who builds experiential experiences that shift perspective from passive seeing to active looking, from passive hearing to active listening. Despenza uses musical thinking to illuminate the dynamic and unconscious rhythms of power structures that underlie the perception of time and space. His work involves diverse mediums that often include archive footage, sound design, music video, and experimental electronic music compositions. Despenza’s art investigates the notion of productivity and human presence in what we consider ‘thisness’ that exists within the sensory ecology.
In this Particle Castle Bubble Party! we talked through a wide range of subjects ranging from grad school, the bounds of creativity, sound in space, and politics/theory as it relates to the creation of art.
Giovanni and I first crossed paths on the Sensory Percussion forum when I showed some early sketches for SP Tools, a set of tools for using Sensory Percussion hardware natively in Max. After exchanging some emails we spoke some more and realized we shared (a lot more) common interests and decided to chat further about them. In this Particle Castle Bubble Party! we talk about general musical interests and overall approaches as well as doing a proper deep-dive into the world of onset-based audio analysis, sample playback, and Sensory Percussion hardware.
Zack Scholl – (infinite digits)
Coming as a serendipitous turn of events that connected Rodrigo, Angela, Dan Derks, Sound & Process, and the lines community, the first Particle Castle Bubble Party! took place shortly after Zack Scholl contacted Rodrigo for a Gib Gab session. Zack was open to the idea of exploring the, as of them, solidified and came with a ton of questions and ideas that we unpack and talk through here.