Leon Milo, Composer, Percussionist, Sound Artist

Osmosis set-up

Here is a film showing the setting up of the Osmosis exhibition.
Still awating images of the video installation.

Osmosis_ Video/Sound Installation for Arik Levy.

Osmosis Sound World.

I have just completed a video/sound installation for designer, Arik Levy's solo exhibition for Swarovski at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, in Milan. The team included myself on sound,  Thomas Boaziz on video and Stéphane Maguet, owner of Numeriscausa, who oversaw the production of the project with the team at ldesign for Arik Levy..

Swarovski commissioned Arik Levy to create an exhibition of work inspired by, and created with the unique concept of crystal. Levy has created a series of installations that will illustrate the diversity of Swarovski crystal.

You can read more about it here, on this well documented design blog.

My part in this 800 square-meter exhibit was to create an interactive sound world which would accompany a 5x7 meter, 3D image of a diamond. This shape is constantly deformed, exploded and reconfigured according to various parameters and driven by people moving in front of the screen, around the defined space. I should be receiving images from the show very soon.

Below, I have posted some screenshots of the MaxMsp program which I made  for the installation. 

The program is made up of 8 stereo sound banks which are constantly playing back at different speeds, including different panning and various treatments, depending on the number of people and the activity of the spectators, as well as, the color of the diamond.

The sounds come mostly from samples of glass, crystal, ice, rocks, moving earth and  bowed percussion instruments which I recorded in my studio. They  are modified  by 2 time-based harmonizers which change the pitch,  sound quality (freq. modulation), delay and feedback.

The amazing space which Arik has conceived to expose his original works of art and design is 100 meters long by 8 meters wide.  It flows, as the title of the expo suggests, and culminates with this huge video/sound world. A joyous and very physical experience! One shakes arms and legs, dances and jumps in front of the giant, floating, organic and other-worldly vessel which seems to crave our attention!!

Hope that you can make it.

Swarovski Crystal Palace ‘Osmosis’ by Arik Levy
from 21st to 27th April 2009
Ex Magazzini Di Porta Genova
Via Valenza 2, Milano

Osmosis patch control, originally uploaded by time/texture.

Trocadero, January 2009

Trocadero, January 2009, originally uploaded by time/texture.

Fwd: Soirée-concert - Samedi 21 Mars 2009 à 20h30 - PARIS

Of interest in Paris this Saturday, 21 march.

Dans une même soirée-concert il y aura les musique de *Scan7*, J*acopo Baboni Schilingi*, *Cylens*, *Labelle feat Jeff Suzda *
De* Jacopo Baboni Schilingi* seront interprétées par l’*Ensemble de Musique Interactive : *
*Shift-II *pour saxophone baryton et live computer Philippe Bouveret – Saxophone

*Concubia nocte – in memoria di Luciano Berio * pour soprano et live computer Dragana Serbanovic – soprano

*Decode-II *pour percussion et live computer Bertrand Monneret - percussions

Samedi 21 Mars 2009 à 20h30

Centre FGO-Barbara 1 rue Fleury 75018 PARIS

Tonight on Arte TV. Music by Leon Milo.

Dear Friends,

Tonight on Arte.

The film on Globalization and Joseph Stiglitz.

Music by Leon Milo.

Hope that you can watch!

Best to all,

Leon.

Information here

Sonidos y Flores

This is a demo trailer for an interactive performance project by "Interact-Son", the duo made up of Francois Daudin Clavaud (flutes) and Leon Milo (real-time electronic) with images by Miguel Chevalier.

In the actual performance version, the sounds and treatments will influence numerous parameters of the plants: their colors, shapes, speed of growth, density, wind perturbation, etc. We are now in the process of making the software links (in max/msp and pure data) between sound and image processing.

Hopefully we will perform this in Paris and in Mexico City in the coming months !

Enjoy !

Liege TGV Railway Station

Liege TGV Railway Station, originally uploaded by time/texture.

A most beautiful construction. taken on my way to Cologne for concerts with Pianowaves and Susanne kessel, pianist.

Music for, "Around the World With Joseph Stiglitz"

The opening titles of the film "Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz"

A film about Globalization, it's inequity and how it could be made to work better in the future according to Stiglitz.

Soon on ARTE TV in France and Germany.

Directed by Jacques Sarasin.
Written by Jacques Sarasin and Serge Ellenstein with Joseph Stiglitz.
Motage, Bernard Josse
Music, Leon Milo
Produced by ARTE TV

Please see this article in the Morningside Post for more information on the film.
Best to all,
Leon.

A new controller for audio

Very interesting.

Thanks to my friend Permagnus Lindborg for the information.

Randy Jones video
Best to all..
Leon.

Mac info-OS 10.5.6 update news. ( "You may experience unexpected results..." ) :P

Good morning from Paris,
I am finally at my computer a bit calmly after weeks of deadlines for film music, concerts, and generally stressful over-activity and wanted to share a little bit of Macintosh tech. information.

I get a lot of question asked about computer issues (I also freelance as a Mac consultant) and so I have decided to list things here from time to time as I discover them. That way, my friends and clients can have access to this information in one place and so that there can be some trace of inormation and comments from people sharing similar issues. We musicians are very intense computer users and a bad upgrade from Apple or any other software can really make for a bad day. :P

When the little software update box appears on your screen, I think it wise to wait on the latest MAC OS update until you have made a copy of your disk or at least your system and home folder. Especially the user library. I you are having real iphone sync. problems you may need this update. If everything works... I suggest to wait and check the apple support pages.

Here is one article of many on the subject...

Happy boxing day. :))
Leon.

PS. if you are with Boyugues telecom in France, the iphone will be available for you. They recently won a court case against Apple which limited the iphone to Orange. Boyugues recently offered me a BlackBerry Bold and it is superb!