Intel Galileo

The PAT Department has received a generous donation from Intel of several of the brand new Intel® Galileo Arduino-compatible development boards. These will be used to support projects in Professor Gurevich's Interactive Media Design courses, where students build physically interactive music performance systems, sound art installations, and interactive games.

Recital Sunday Jan 12, 1pm

I'll be performing Luciano Berio's Altra Voce, arranged for Horn, Voice, and Electronics, with Adam Unsworth and Jennifer Goltz, Sunday January 12 at 1pm in Britton Hall. The piece uses real-time sampling, harmonization, and spatialization, and it's quite stunning. Here video of a past performance, but it really needs to be experienced live.


Luciano Berio, Altra Voce at UMMA Ann Arbor from Michael Gurevich on Vimeo.

Games Games Games

Check out these projects from last semester's PAT 451/551 - Interactive Media Design I. For the first project, we made a version of Simon using an Arduino, LCD display, buttons, and LEDs. Here is Sang Lee's "Simon Plays."

For the second project, students had to make a game of their own design, using continuous user input. Here is "Guillotune" by PAT MA Student Eric Sheffield:

For the final, students created a physically interactive multi-player game.  Here is "Hube" by PAT MA Student Eric Sheffield:

Electronic Chamber Music

As this year's version of Electronic Chamber Music is about to kick off, here is a video excerpt from our final concert last year.


Composition by Brian Kelley. Performed by Conor Barry & Brian Kelley (electronics), Alex Huryk (violin), and Simon Alexander-Adams (piano). Two performers sample and loop live talk radio and rebroadcast it via an FM transmitter. By inserting themselves into the broadcast loop, they effectively subvert, co-opt, and mediate the medium. Two instrumentalists improvise with the rebroadcast signal, received on another FM radio receiver.

Performing Arts Technology student Mix Tape

Here is a small selection of works by current students in Performing Arts Technology.
http://patuofm.bandcamp.com/album/pat-mixtape-2013

The art of making a movie

Early on a recent Sunday morning, as many students lay blissfully asleep, a 30-person film crew took over the basement of North Quad. A team of industry professionals and University of Michigan students and alumni were filming the trailer for PAT Associate Professor Andy Kirshner’s new musical film project, “Liberty’s Secret.”

The art of making a movie

Prof. Gurevich Lecturing at U-M Design Science

This afternoon, Prof. Gurevich will give a guest lecture entitled Designing Musical Interactions: Skill, Style, and Spectatorship at the U-M Design Science program's graduate colloquium.