I started experimenting with several ways to make loudspeakers that would distort sounds sent to it. First I tried out making my own voice coils, piezoelectric crystals, and attaching speaker divers to different shaped materials. I got both my homemade voice coil based drivers and piezoelectric crystals to work but […]
Creation
Sculpture by Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell Based on Still Moon Arts Society’s moon lantern, originally made by Jennifer Norquist Documentation by Carmen Rosen Made with wire mesh, fibreglass rope and ethanol fuel
A programmable digital box for live sound processing What it is for My Audio Processing Mailbox is fully re-programmable as to give me access and compositional control over the digital processes effecting the sound. This enables me to program the parameters of the sound processing for every specific composition, venue, […]
The piece is the outcome of researching the body’s connection to the clarinet. Exploration and play were used to find a myriad of sounds that can span a range from the visceral to the more traditionally “musical”. Light and shadow illuminate the bodies/actors on stage and their interconnection. The light […]
Still Here is a Public Work by Carmen Rosen. It is made of three concrete salmons swimming over a burried part of Still Creek River. Carved into them are excerpts of texts by community members and artists. Isaac Rufus has an excerpt of his poem Inkling on one of the […]
The Bamboozler is a tandem recumbent trike made of mostly bamboo. Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell conceived of the trike and then built it with the help of Max Metz. A Tune Written about the Bike by Clara Rose 3D model
Costumes and performance idea crafted by Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell The concept was that the ghost fishes from the lost stream of Greater Vancouver Area were now swimming upstream and above ground, alongside the human paraders or festival goers.