2010

Performance at AS220 with Use Other Door :|: October 20, 2010

Ambient electronic music with noisy textures and wacky noises and trumpet thrown in.

• KidVid and Use Other Door @ as220 31:47

Oleophobic

Oleophobic - live at Pixilerations from Arvid Tomayko-Peters on Vimeo.

by Arvid Tomayko-Peters and Steve Schwartz

Oleophobic is a live performance piece where colored oil and water blobs are manipulated on stage to create live visuals and music. The polar and non-polar liquids repel each other and create slowly morphing shapes that are tracked by a camera and used to control sound though additive synthesis and sample scrubbing. The blobs also form 'notes' within a looping sequencer that can be overlaid onto any rectangular area of the video by the performer and sped up, slowed down, reversed and split between two independent instruments. Pan, volume and other parameters are also controlled by various attributes of the individual blobs such as size, location and elongation.

The same oleophobic and hydrophobic properties of molecules that keep this oil and water separate also form the basis of the construction of the cell membranes of every living organism, making this polar-non-polar interaction a primordial necessity for life.

Arvid Tomayko-Peters: Audio/Video Manipulation, Programming
Steve Schwartz: Oil/Water Manipulation, Apparatus Construction

Performed October 1, 2010 at the Pixilerations Festival
Grant Recital Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI

Thanks to Bevin Kelley, James Moses and Brown Knoth (I think?) for shooting the film and producing the concert.

Lament - a new studio piece

Made entirely from two short audio samples, one of which is used only once.

• Lament 3:20

Audio/Video Improvisations with the TOOB

Improvisation with The TOOB #1 :|: April 6, 2010 from Arvid Tomayko-Peters on Vimeo.

Improvisation with The TOOB #2 :|: April 6, 2010 from Arvid Tomayko-Peters on Vimeo.

The TOOB is a wireless wind controller I designed and built that allows me to create sound and visuals in realtime by manipulating pre-made samples and sampling live input or the output of the instrument itself. More information can be found here.

KidVid :|: Performance for No One

Live solo ambient electronica experiments performed for an audience of zero. Minimally edited after recording (ie you could hear this live).

• Susquehanna 21:15
• Astray Excerpt 18:27
• The Climb 2:48
• Ghost Circus 22:57
• Cheapo Bastard 8:22
• Subcutaneous 26:30
• Emergin Sea 12:35
• Children Sugar Basket 21:54
• Jaipur 22:24
• Epithelial 20:13
• Put your Gloves On Gloveshack Baby Yeah 15:30
• Devonshire Dreams 10:54
• Greyhound Route 11:44

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Performance for No One by KidVid

KidVid :|: Performance for Vicky Tomayko's opening

August 12, 2010 at FP3 in the Fort Point area in Boston - this is a new performance paradigm for me. With Josh Marshall on flute on the last two tunes

• Migration 14:26
• The More Legs the Better 17:13
• The Solitary Squid 15:26
• A Solid Magenta 6:00

What's happening in the studio (Works in Progress)

Studio Works in Progress by KidVid

Improvisation with The TOOB live at Handmade Music Brooklyn, March 8, 2010

An expansive TOOB improvisation including a love duet between the TOOB and the cell phone of an unwitting audience member and some melodic processed vocal passages. More photos and maybe even a video of the performance are on their way!

• The TOOB @ Handmade Music 2010-03-08 17:11

Photo: Jon Friedman | More photos of this performance

March Will be Better than February

Short improvisation with The TOOB, March 1, 2010

2009

Improvisation with The TOOB at SIGGRAPH 2009

August 5, 2009 - New Orleans

• TOOB@SIGGRAPH 2009 Performance 8:58
• TOOB@SIGGRAPH 2009 Encore 5:45

Video from SIGGRAPH

Josh Marshall and Arvid Tomayko-peters - Live at RISD May 8, 2009

Arvid Tomayko-Peters - TOOB
Josh Marshall - Tenor Sax

• Piece 1 6:47
• Piece 2 6:10

The Giant Isopods… From Hell! - Live at Tazza Feb 24, 2009

More Improvised Electro-Klezmer from David Symons, Josh Marshall and Arvid Tomayko-Peters

• Fish Food 11:15
• The Untennable Hamantaschen 6:27
• Kalamazoo 7:01
• A Parched Koala 7:57
• Viscous Calamity 5:43
• Elephantine Grunt 4:57
• Put Put Put Oxygen More Oxygen 7:11

Jon and the Giant Isopods - Live at Tazza Feb 10, 2009

Electro-Klezmer from Jon Cannon, David Symons, Josh Marshall and Arvid Tomayko-Peters

• Block Chords 5:32
• Astro-Drop 7:49
• Improv 3 1:11
• Click-clack 7:02
• Klezmer Tune 7:04
• Where is Art 7:57
• Space Hora 10:01

Hannah Lewis, Josh Marshall and Arvid Tomayko-Peters

The Battle of Vimy Ridge - Live at Tazza January 27, 2009

• Charge 7:07
• The Machine of War 11:01
• Horn Duo 6:17
• TOOB Vocal Duo 4:20
• Sharp 12:29

2008

The Miss Lonelyhearts Live at Tazza August 12, 2008

Arvid Tomayko-Peters - TOOB
Dave Harrington - synth/electronics/laptop
Hannah Lewis - vocals
Greg Scrulloni - drums
Aaron - Tenor Sax
Lyn Goeringer - theremin

• Dissonant Consonants 4:16
• Miss Lonelyhearts 1 13:34
• Miss Lonelyhearts 2 43:43
• Miss Lonelyhearts 3 14:47

The TOOB Trio and friends Live at Tazza August 5, 2008

Arvid Tomayko-Peters - TOOB/No-Input Mixers
Dave Harrington - Bass/Guitar
Ian Sims - Drums
|: with special guests :|
Butch Rovan - Alto Clarinet and Tenor Sax
Steve Schwartz - Timbales and Percussion

• Dave Harrington 4:02
• Dave Harrington and KidVId 29:17
• KidVid 6:19
• Trio 8:06
• Quartet 10:23
• Quintet 33:51
• Quintet - Natang 13:07
• Quintet - Bayou 8:14

KidVid Live at Tazza July 15, 2008

Arvid Tomayko-Peters - No-Input Mixers

• Sapping Your Saint 8:27
• Carnivorous Reeducation 11:38

Truro

A piece about the sand dunes and gnarled pine forests of Truro, Massachusetts. Sand grains might blow anywhere in the wind, but walk far enough in any one direction and the intricate landscape fades into the emptiness of the ocean.

• Truro 3:13

Arvid 'KidVid' Tomayko-Peters and Mark Milloff live at Tazza, Downtown Providence, RI. Mississippi Fred McDowell as you've never heard it before. Mark Milloff's site

KidVid Live at the Living Room in Providence, RI - wonky analog and digital electronix live

• Arvid Living Room Jan-3 1 9:02
• Arvid Living Room Jan-3 2 4:34
• Arvid Living Room Jan-3 3 7:07
• Arvid Living Room Jan-3 4 5:31

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