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am ab ie 1.0 --- 2020-05-11

Amabie (アマビエ) is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with 3 legs, who allegedly emerges from the sea and prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic. We leverage this theme of 3 limbs for our electronic art event - The Artist, the Musician and the Audience. The Hipster Modular recordings (aka “Fragments”) documented here were captured during the 5/7/2020 “am ab ie” event with the cover art painted in realtime via aggie.io. 1. Artists // Artists paint or draw with the collaborative Aggie.io platform. They can see their collaborations in real-time. Their painting is shared in real-time via Zoom. 2. Musicians // For electronic performances, audio is mixed and sent directly to Zoom. In this performance, audio was mixed (and tracked) with Ableton Live, then sent via anlog connection to a Zoom Q2n-4k camera for input into a MS Surface running Zoom, with Hipster Modular logo as a virtual background. 3. Audience // The combination of the drawing, event flyer and musician audio and video are shared to Youtube Live. The archive can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/a2CaNutczhU Server // Since a solid network is key and Zoom doesn’t always play well with real-time drawing applications, a “server” on a fast network is used to combine Zoom with Camtwist desktop sharing. Playtime: 72 minutes, 18 Seconds presented as 8 Fragments with 2 additional Fragments available via download