TITLE: AUTOCASTER v 1.1
MATERIALS: 6 speakers, 6 motion sensors and 6 digital auto-load storecasters mounted onto 6 boards
DIMENSIONS: 8"x23.5"
DATE: 2003

DESCRIPTION
Autocaster is a six channel sound installation utilizing six digital sample registers, auto-composing a total of one-hundred-and-twenty sound fragments of an average length of twenty-four seconds for a total of forty-eight minutes of sound. An array of six motion sensors is added so that the audience participates in the composition by just walking around while hearing the piece. This piece will never exactly repeat itself for the duration of the exhibit. Autocaster was originally designed for the Polestar Music Gallery for incidental sound between performances so that the audience becomes the performers. It has also been used by acoustic improvisational musicians for interaction while they move about the space and play their instruments.

STATEMENT
Sound artist John Bain (AKA Mutant Data Orchestra) has a background in architecture and is currently working with sonic environments both as performances and installations. The basis of his work deals with issues of auto-composition and the real-time interaction between humans and machines. His performances with Mutant Data Orchestra utilize modified digital electronics where a real-time balance is achieved between the performer and machine in an improvisational setting. Similar tactics are used for his installation work, except that the audience becomes the performer.

CONTACT
John Bain
Seattle, WA
http://www.simulux.com