02/22/22

Penticton Residency Feb. 20 – 23

Working with Mia Harris, Danielle Savage, and Alexandra Goodall at the Penticton Art Gallery on a new piece with gesture-controlled articulatory synthesis, gesture controlled lighting, Okanagan accent phonemes, and felt sculptures with ultrasonic audio control.

01/30/22

Post Concert Celebration

Dressing room celebration after the first live Synapses presentation at the Annex, Jan. 28, 2022. Oboe: David Owen, Dancer with light spine: Emmalena Fredriksson, Costume designer: Alaia Hamer, Circuit’s/Tech: Daniel Tsui. Very fun!!

01/23/22

More work with Mia Harris & Articulatory Synthesis

12/28/21

Mia Harris working with synthetic speech and lighting

Mia’s right hand controls synthetic vowels and lighting, while her left hand controls processing of synthetic and real voice.

12/12/21

Gesture controlled articulatory synthesis and quiet live voice combined

Danielle Lee using her right hand to control articulatory synthesis vowels, and left hand to control drone maker processing. Live voice from head mic also mixed in.

12/2/21

New Custom Sensor Boards

One of Daniel Tsui’s new sensor boards, populated and passing great data using an ESP32.

11/23/21

Flute Sensor Prototypes

A bit clunky, but the FSRs are working nicely

11/13/21

Danielle Lee and Daniel Tsui testing Lidar scans

This is preliminary testing for a possible work with Emmalena Fredriksson

11/4/21

Gesture controlled articulatory vowels

Danielle Lee using the KiCASS system to control articulatory synthesis. Her right hand controls the vowels and pitches while her left hand controls the amount of harmonizer processing.