Performance 7pm, 23 May 2007
Preview 23 May 6-8pm, Exhibition open to 2 June (Wed to Sat, 12 - 5.30pm)

Juneau/projects/ is the identity for Birmingham based artists Philip Duckworth & Ben Sadler who began collaborating in 2001.  For ISP they have been researching the production of customised musical instruments in collaboration with Midlands based programmer Ben Neal.  The work brings together hybridised computer interfaces, such as keyboards and mice, with the shapes of traditional guitar, violin, drum and woodwind instruments.  Following on from recent explorations of gaming formats, the duo have produced an interactive ‘rock and roll' game which features an owl controlled by a band. Accordingly this rock and roll computer game is controlled by playing the guitar, bass and drums.  Performative elements run through their practice and ‘Sewn to the Sky' will be launched as a trademark live performance in "demo mode."

The creations function as both playable devices and as sculptural objects, and visitors are welcome to play them throughout the exhibition

Project History and Development

juneau/projects/ set out to research the production of customised musical instruments which will interface with a bespoke piece of audio computer software designed in collaboration with Midlands based programmer Ben Neal.

Their research identified that the type of audio software required was already commercially [and often freely] available. Having identified the software needed to create the sounds for the instruments they began to develop an instrument interface based on transducer microphones - for example, transducers hidden inside the body of a guitar, which can be played by tapping on the guitar, or manipulating it in some other way. The signal from the transducer, which is a kind of contact mic, is then processed by Audiomulch into musical tones.