Roger Dean : Multimedia work

Roger Dean : Multimedia Work, including performance work involving text and/or image, and sound; and work for the web and cd-rom.

(Note: xx#n= Commercial release and its number in the list. All work available from Soma unless otherwise indicated).

#1. Poet Without Language (1991; version 2), by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. For speaker, pre-recorded speaker, and instruments. For live performance and for radio. Commissioned by the ABC's Listening Room. Score Available from the Australian Music Centre. Release on Rufus Records, 'Poet without Language ' by Hazel Smith with austraLYSIS. Rufus RF005 (1994). Nominated by the ABC for the Prix Italia.

#2. Silent Waves (1992), by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (for speaker, pre-recorded speaker, saxophone, sequencer, synthesiser). For live performance and for radio. Released on 'Poet without Language ' by Hazel Smith with austraLYSIS. Rufus RF005 (1994)

#3. Caged John Uncaged (1992) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (for speaker and one instrumentalist, playing synthesiser, piano and samples). Released on 'Poet without Language ' by Hazel Smith with austraLYSIS. Rufus RF005 (1994)

#4. Nuraghic Echoes (1993) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Performance and radio technodrama, for speakers, and sound. Commissioned by the Listening Room, ABC. Released on 'Nuraghic Echoes' by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Rufus RF025 (1996)

#5. The Riting of the Runda (1994) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Performance and radio technodrama, for speakers, and sound. Released on 'Nuraghic Echoes' by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Rufus RF025 (1996)

#6. The Musecal Detective (1995) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Performance piece for speaker and keyboard player. Manuscript score; and MAX patch. Released on Alt-X and (2001)

#7. Walking the Faultlines (1996-7). Hypertext by Hazel Smith, sound composition and interactive interface by Roger Dean; production and additional programming by Greg White. An installation piece, first presented at Performance Space, Sydney (1996), later developed as a cd-rom piece. Chosen in competition by the International Computer Music Association for release on its first cd-rom, Cyberquilt (1999).

#8. WORDSTUFFS (1998), by Hazel Smith, Roger Dean and Greg White. An interactive web piece of hypertext, MIDI-sound, animations, and JAVA mobiles. Chosen in competition by the Australian Commission for funding for its 1998 STUFFART site. A requirement was that the work be no more than 1.4Mb in size. Available at the ABC website.

#9. Returning the Angles (1998), a performance and radio technodrama by Hazel Smtih and Roger Dean, for speakers, sound, and (in the performance version, interactive VRML animation by Dean). 35minutes; commissioned by the ABC for The Listening Room
The sound work can be heard on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation web site as streaming RealAudio (you need to open your RealPlayer, and call up pnm://media1.abc.net.au/lroom/return.rm). Sound and image technodrama, released on CD with interactive CD-Rom. Soma 787.

#10. Intertwingling (1999), by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean, with sound by the austraLYSIS Electroband. Interactive web piece, of hypertext with RealAudio sound. Commissioned for and available on the Overland Express web site (Intertwingling.) Also available at How To (USA).

#11. Sympathetic Strings (2000) by Roger Dean and Darani Lewers. Premiered Performance Space, Sydney, 18 November 2000. An interactive hypersound web performance piece, with two images by Lewers, transformed by slowly moving animations by Dean. Released on CDR with Dean's 'Hyperimprovisation:Computer Interactive Sound improvisation', A-R Editions, Middleton, WI, USA.

#12. The Centre Series: Sites of Sound (2000) by Darani Lewers and Roger Dean. Premiered Performance Space, Sydney, 19 November 2000 An interactive hypersound piece, with text symbols, and a rapidly transform complex animation based by Dean on a series of images by Lewers. Released on CDR with Dean's 'Hyperimprovisation:Computer Interactive Sound improvisation', A-R Editions, Middleton WI, USA.

#13. The Egg The Cart The Horse The Chicken, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean An interactive web piece, of flash animated text, and non-interactive palindromic sound, which is a piece of rhythmic minimal music. Availabe on the inflect multimedia web journal, volume 1. (www.ce.canberra.edu/inflect).

#14. The Erotics of Gossip, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (2001) An extended radio piece commissioned by the Listening Room of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This is a work of text, sound and music, with multiple voices and strands. Recording date: March 2001. Now available on the web as real-audio, from the ABC site; received its premiere broadcast in August 2001.

#15. ProseThetic Memories (2001) by Anne Brewster, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Premiered Performance Space, Sydney, December 2001, and performed Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane (2002). A two screen 3D-hypertext work (in VRML), with complex sound.

#16. Virtual Movements II(2002) by Roger Dean. Premiered Brisbane Powerhouse, November 2002 A two screen interactive video and sound work.

#17. Secret Places (v. 2002), by Sieglinde Karl, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. This version premiered Brisbane Powerhouse, November 2002 Performed text and interactive video.

#18. soundAFFECTs (2003), by Anne Brewster, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 2003. A work of text animation and sound, using MAX/MSP/Jitter. Published on line (in a version for the web) by the journal TEXT (www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/index.htm).

#19. the writer, the performer, the program, the madwoman (2003), by Hazel Smith, Roger Dean and Greg White. Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 2003. Performed text and its real-time processing by one or two computer performers. Available on the web.

#20. The Weight of Time (2003), by Roger Dean. Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 2003. An interactive video and sound investigation.

#21. Minimal (2003) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. A performance text and performance sound piece. (2003). Included on cd-rom accompanying Hazel Smith’s volume of poetry and multimedia, ‘The Erotics of Geography’, Tinfish Press, USA (2008).

#22. The Space of History (2004), by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. 'The Space of History', a 9 minute text and sound performance piece, has been published by PENNSOUND, the international archive of such work, which succeeded the famous UBUWeb.The piece is in the 'singles' section of the site, and is a high quality mp3 download.

#23. Eight Os and a W (2004) by Roger Dean. Premiered Sydney Conseravtoriujm of Music, October 2004. An interactive video and digital sound piece, with algorithmic synaesthesia (algorithms shared by sound and image), and eight bagatelles of notated music for trumpet and saxophone.

#24. The Slow Jet (2005), by Roger Dean A sound and video performance piece.Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, September 2005.

#25. Time, The Magician (2005) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean Algorithmic video with text, performed text, live acoustic and computer sound. Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, September 2005. (Video of excerpts of the performance released on MC journal 2006). Included in cd-rom accompanying Hazel Smith’s volume of poetry and multimedia, The Erotics of Geography, Tinfish Press, USA (2008).

#26. Slow Commotion by Roger Dean (2006) An evolving video-sound piece; premiered Sydney, October 2006.

#27. Mid-Air Conversations, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (2006) A multistranded work of spoken text and noisespeech, in 4 channel audio. Refereed conference publication avaialble. as 4 ch Quicktime.

#28. The Afterlives of Betsy Scott, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean Recorded for broadcast and continuous online relay October-November 2007: a radio piece of sound and text for the ABC Radio Drama section. 27 minutes.

#29. Live music, Dead Bodies, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (2007). A text and sound work for pre-recorded actor, and live performers. 16.5 min; premiered Sydney December 2007.

#30 Instabilities 1 and 2 by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (2008, 2009). Members of a series of works using the Text Transformation Toolkit, interactive software developed in Python by austraLYSIS as part of their Verbal Interactivity Project (lead contributors: David Worrall, Michael Bylstra, Jon Drummond, Roger Dean, Hazel Smith). Instabilities 2 (completed for publication) is a 3 channel video representation of the original text, a real-time image transformation derivative, and a real-time TTT-performed window. The sound score by austraLYSIS is based on Dean’s Subemergence.

#31 Clay Conversations
by Hazel Smith, Joanna Still and Roger Dean (2009). A multimedia work with video-text and sound. c.10min. Premiered Sydney December 2009.

#1. Poet Without Language (1991; version 2), by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. For speaker, pre-recorded speaker, and instruments. For live performance and for radio. Commissioned by the ABC's Listening Room.	Score Available from the Australian Music Centre. Release on Rufus Records, 'Poet without Language ' by Hazel Smith with austraLYSIS. Rufus RF005 (1994). Nominated by the ABC for the Prix Italia.
#2. Silent Waves (1992), by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (for speaker, pre-recorded speaker, saxophone, sequencer, synthesiser). For live performance and for radio.	Released on 'Poet without Language ' by Hazel Smith with austraLYSIS. Rufus RF005 (1994)
#3. Caged John Uncaged (1992) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (for speaker and one instrumentalist, playing synthesiser, piano and samples).	Released on 'Poet without Language ' by Hazel Smith with austraLYSIS. Rufus RF005 (1994)
#4. Nuraghic Echoes (1993) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Performance and radio technodrama, for speakers, and sound. Commissioned by the Listening Room, ABC.	Released on 'Nuraghic Echoes' by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Rufus RF025 (1996)
#5. The Riting of the Runda (1994) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Performance and radio technodrama, for speakers, and sound.	Released on 'Nuraghic Echoes' by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Rufus RF025 (1996)
#6. The Musecal Detective (1995) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Performance piece for speaker and keyboard player.	Manuscript score; and MAX patch. Released on Alt-X and (2001)
#7. Walking the Faultlines (1996-7). Hypertext by Hazel Smith, sound composition and interactive interface by Roger Dean; production and additional programming by Greg White. An installation piece, first presented at Performance Space, Sydney (1996), later developed as a cd-rom piece.	Chosen in competition by the International Computer Music Association for release on its first cd-rom, Cyberquilt (1999).
#8. WORDSTUFFS (1998), by Hazel Smith, Roger Dean and Greg White. An interactive web piece of hypertext, MIDI-sound, animations, and JAVA mobiles. Chosen in competition by the Australian Commission for funding for its 1998 STUFFART site. A requirement was that the work be no more than 1.4Mb in size.	Available at the ABC website.
#9. Returning the Angles (1998), a performance and radio technodrama by Hazel Smtih and Roger Dean, for speakers, sound, and (in the performance version, interactive VRML animation by Dean). 35minutes; commissioned by the ABC for The Listening Room	The sound work can be heard on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation web site as streaming RealAudio (you need to open your RealPlayer, and call up pnm://media1.abc.net.au/lroom/return.rm). Sound and image technodrama, released on CD with interactive CD-Rom. Soma 787.
#10. Intertwingling (1999), by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean, with sound by the austraLYSIS Electroband.	Interactive web piece, of hypertext with RealAudio sound. Commissioned for and available on the Overland Express web site (Intertwingling.) Also available at How To (USA).
#11. Sympathetic Strings (2000) by Roger Dean and Darani Lewers. Premiered Performance Space, Sydney, 18 November 2000.	An interactive hypersound web performance piece, with two images by Lewers, transformed by slowly moving animations by Dean. Released on CDR with Dean's 'Hyperimprovisation:Computer Interactive Sound improvisation', A-R Editions, Middleton, WI, USA.
#12. The Centre Series: Sites of Sound (2000) by Darani Lewers and Roger Dean. Premiered Performance Space, Sydney, 19 November 2000	An interactive hypersound piece, with text symbols, and a rapidly transform complex animation based by Dean on a series of images by Lewers. Released on CDR with Dean's 'Hyperimprovisation:Computer Interactive Sound improvisation', A-R Editions, Middleton WI, USA.
#13. The Egg The Cart The Horse The Chicken, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean	An interactive web piece, of flash animated text, and non-interactive palindromic sound, which is a piece of rhythmic minimal music. Availabe on the inflect multimedia web journal, volume 1. (www.ce.canberra.edu/inflect).
#14. The Erotics of Gossip, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (2001)	An extended radio piece commissioned by the Listening Room of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This is a work of text, sound and music, with multiple voices and strands. Recording date: March 2001. Now available on the web as real-audio, from the ABC site; received its premiere broadcast in August 2001.
#15. ProseThetic Memories (2001) by Anne Brewster, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Premiered Performance Space, Sydney, December 2001, and performed Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane (2002).	A two screen 3D-hypertext work (in VRML), with complex sound.
#16. Virtual Movements II(2002) by Roger Dean. Premiered Brisbane Powerhouse, November 2002	A two screen interactive video and sound work.
#17. Secret Places (v. 2002), by Sieglinde Karl, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. This version premiered Brisbane Powerhouse, November 2002	Performed text and interactive video.
#18. soundAFFECTs (2003), by Anne Brewster, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 2003.	A work of text animation and sound, using MAX/MSP/Jitter. Published on line (in a version for the web) by the journal TEXT (www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/index.htm).
#19. the writer, the performer, the program, the madwoman (2003), by Hazel Smith, Roger Dean and Greg White. Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 2003.	Performed text and its real-time processing by one or two computer performers. Available on the web.
#20. The Weight of Time (2003), by Roger Dean. Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 2003.	An interactive video and sound investigation.
#21. Minimal (2003)	by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. A performance text and performance sound piece. (2003). Included on cd-rom accompanying Hazel Smith’s volume of poetry and multimedia, ‘The Erotics of Geography’, Tinfish Press, USA (2008).
#22. The Space of History (2004), by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean.	'The Space of History', a 9 minute text and sound performance piece, has been published by PENNSOUND, the international archive of such work, which succeeded the famous UBUWeb.The piece is in the 'singles' section of the site, and is a high quality mp3 download.
#23. Eight Os and a W (2004) by Roger Dean. Premiered Sydney Conseravtoriujm of Music, October 2004.	An interactive video and digital sound piece, with algorithmic synaesthesia (algorithms shared by sound and image), and eight bagatelles of notated music for trumpet and saxophone.
#24. The Slow Jet (2005), by Roger Dean	A sound and video performance piece.Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, September 2005.
#25. Time, The Magician (2005) by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean	Algorithmic video with text, performed text, live acoustic and computer sound. Premiered Sydney Conservatorium of Music, September 2005. (Video of excerpts of the performance released on MC journal 2006). Included in cd-rom accompanying Hazel Smith’s volume of poetry and multimedia, The Erotics of Geography, Tinfish Press, USA (2008).
#26. Slow Commotion by Roger Dean (2006)	An evolving video-sound piece; premiered Sydney, October 2006.
#27. Mid-Air Conversations, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (2006)	A multistranded work of spoken text and noisespeech, in 4 channel audio. Refereed conference publication avaialble. as 4 ch Quicktime.
#28. The Afterlives of Betsy Scott, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean	Recorded for broadcast and continuous online relay October-November 2007: a radio piece of sound and text for the ABC Radio Drama section. 27 minutes.
#29. Live music, Dead Bodies, by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (2007).	A text and sound work for pre-recorded actor, and live performers. 16.5 min; premiered Sydney December 2007.
#30 Instabilities 1 and 2 by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (2008, 2009).	Members of a series of works using the Text Transformation Toolkit, interactive software developed in Python by austraLYSIS as part of their Verbal Interactivity Project (lead contributors: David Worrall, Michael Bylstra, Jon Drummond, Roger Dean, Hazel Smith). Instabilities 2 (completed for publication) is a 3 channel video representation of the original text, a real-time image transformation derivative, and a real-time TTT-performed window. The sound score by austraLYSIS is based on Dean’s Subemergence.
#31 Clay Conversations	by Hazel Smith, Joanna Still and Roger Dean (2009). A multimedia work with video-text and sound. c.10min. Premiered Sydney December 2009.