Two of the Runabout project instruments are now on show at the Baza Art Award 2011 exhibition in the Sofia City Gallery. You can see the Trash Banjo and the Bergeron accordion on the second floor of the gallery until July 10 2011. Even though they did not win the Read more…
Ignite Sofia invites presentation proposals for Global Ignite Week 2011. On the 8th of February Ignite Sofia will join Global Ignite week(7-11 February 2011). In over 50 cities around the world, more than 10.000 entrepreneurs, technologists, DIYers, creative professionals, and enthusiastic knowledge-seekers will gather for an evening that is a Read more…
19th of december 2010 at 20:00h is the last show for this year. Albena Baeva and Segey Glinkov will improvise “Playing the Bergeron” at the bar After Art, str. Iskar 11, Sofia. Music, video and movement are united together in a single interaction through the custom bergeron-accordion made by Runabout. Read more…
picture by Zdravko Dimov The sensor-based accordion was created by Albena Baeva, Petya Boyukova and Simeon Ianchev. The technology is based on two open source platforms: Arduino and Puredata. Bergeron Accordion is a special controller-instrument for accordionist, that was demonstrated by Andronia Popova (Nasekomix) in the performance Bergeron Experiment. Bergeron Read more…
The Bergeron Experiment was shown at the second edition of Da-fest in 2010 in gallery “Academy”, Sofia. The Bergeron Experiment is inspired by the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. Albena Baeva and Petya Boyukova team up with Andronia Popova, front-woman of Nasekomix. Bergeron Experiment features a custom-built electronic Read more…
electronics, technical consultant Simeon Ianchev is the fonder of robotev.com. He is interested in DIY electronics, interactive objects and environments. Currently, he teaches courses in Arduino/Electronics at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia and also at Robotev.com.
accordion, vocals, composition Andronia Popova is a Bulgarian musician. She is known as the front woman of Nasekomix. She and her music appear in the award winning movie of Kamen Kalev “Eastern Plays”. With Nasekomix she performed on the world premiere of the movie on Cannes Film Festival as well Read more…
A performance by Runabout project at Weeky Freaky, Kaliakria, Bulgaria, 2010 This is an audio-visual improvisation, a performnance that uses sound to control video projection in real time, using PureData. An acoustic guitar is used to mix and apply effects on the video thus connecting the two media in a Read more…
The performance Empty Set is based on the mathematical definition of the empty set. We develop an interactive control between the different sets on the stage. The musical instrument is transformed into control of the real-time video mix. Separate visual and auditory elements are connected on the principle of confrontation Read more…