Simon Overstall

Simon Lysander Overstall is an artist working in digital arts and new media, in particular sound and music. He develops works with generative, interactive, or performance elements. He has produced sound designs and compositions for dance, theatre, and installations. He produces interactive performance systems and art installations which have been shown in Canada, the US, Europe, and China. He has a BFA in Music Composition from the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, and an Associate in Music (Jazz) Diploma from Malaspina University-College. Currently, he is working on his MA in Sound in New Media at Aalto University in Helsinki.

Simon will give presentation on integrating Modalys, the physical modelling synthesis software from IRCAM with Max and it’s physics engine (Bullet). He will discuss the basics of using Modalys in Max and give a quick patching demo on sending collision information from Max to Modalys to trigger sounds. Simon has been using this approach in a generative visual/music project.

Here’s a video of his project that is a work in progress, called Autonomous Virtual Instruments. It’s an audio-visual installation piece in which animated bell-like instruments play themselves.

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