Jason Francesco Heath                                   
Composition/Interactive Media
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Current and Recent Projects
"Rain Ceremony" September 15, 2011, 12-1 PM. Performed by Alma Fernandez (viola) and Jason Heath (electronics), live on John Schneider's Global Village (from Pacifica Radio's KPFK Los Angeles 90.7).

       

Listen to the interview and live performance





"Electronics Live!" April 7, 2011, 6-9 PM at the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts.







“Electronics Live!” is for anyone who enjoys music and experimentation.
Come and celebrate new ways of making music and creating live electronic art! With an experimental and playful approach to new media technologies we invite you to take part in this dynamic and interactive event. Together we will explore a variety of experimental music technologies using custom and DIY instruments, computers, Wii controllers, sensors, smartphones, and other controls. All are invited to interact with cutting-edge experiments in new media technologies, as we will celebrate innovative ways of making music together! Electronics Live! is free and open to the public of all ages.
Equal parts sound art installation, live music performance, and media fair expo, "Electronics Live!" converts the atrium floor of the Culver Center into an interactive media fair, demonstrating a variety of approaches to interactive technologies in music and the arts, and engaging the public with hands-on experience of these technologies in a fun and experimental environment. Attendees will experiment with sensors and interactive instruments developed to control sound, image, space, movement, and more. All are welcome to participate as composers Jason F. Heath and Robert Giracello present contemporary technologies in the field of music and multimedia composition. Along with an incredible lineup of guest artists and contributors, the event will culminate in a live performance of new site-specific compositions for viola and interactive technologies, performed by Alma Fernandez. 

Guest Artists and Contributors Include: Paulo C. Chagas; Martin Jaroszewicz; Adriana Jaroszewicz; Christopher Lavender; Isaac Shankler; Tony Rasmussen; Alex Miller; AJ Gonzalez; No.e. Parker; Mark McConnell; Nikolay Maslov; Aaron Fruchtman; and Andrew Sandoval.
3834 Main Street
Riverside, CA
92501


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Interactive Digital Music and Multimedia Performance at UC Riverside:




Jason F. Heath's "Interactive Digital Music and Multimedia Performance" course at UCR (2011). This 5-week course takes a project-oriented approach to teaching new media performance and composition. The students come from from a variety of undergraduate degree programs with little or no prior experience in digital arts production. Using the graphical programming environment, Max/MSP/Jitter, students learn to design and develop their own software towards an original digital media project.
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Coalescent Moments: A sound/movement installation commissioned by the Culver Center of the Arts in Riverside, CA. with Choreographer, Carrie Mikuls

August 5, 2010, 8-9 PM at the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts. 



Coalescent Moments is a site-specific installation using custom live electronics and live dancers to engage the public in a variety of interactions; creating a dynamic environment and dissolving the separation between artists, performers, and the public. Choreographic strategies and structured improvisations combine with live video and interactive sound controls to form seamless processes of performance, participation, and interaction; periodically coalescing into more explicit moments of group cohesion.


Taking place in front of the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, and spreading throughout the pedestrian mall, interactions between performers and pedestrians inform a new co-creative space. Using four Wii remotes and one Wii balance board, participants will be encouraged to control a variety of loop playback and real time synthesis processes, as well as the parameters of a live video stream. Coalescent Moments makes use of the two video screens flanking the front entrance of the Culver Center. One will display the custom software developed by Jason Heath using Max/Msp/Jitter; offering the user visual feedback for sonic controls. The other will show a live video stream and allows users to control live video delays and other processing parameters.


Software Interface for Coalescent Moments developed in Max/Msp/Jitter

Live Electronics for Instruments of the Gamelan:
Gendér and electronics with René T.A. Lysloff

Presentation/Performance at the Experimental Acoustic Research Studio (EARS)
May 25, 2010
Interactive Hip-Hop Theater and Dance:


Motion-Tracking using Max/MSP/Jitter:
Choreographer/Dancer Carrie Mikuls, and Dancer Natali Micciche working with Jason Heath and Rickerby Hinds at EARS in May, 2010.


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