Mark Bokowiec/Bromwich
Publications and Consultancies
1982 'File convertor, Mountain computer to Alpha Syntauri'
Alpha Syntauri Users Magazine
November 1982
1984 'Analogue Drum System'
Electronics & Musicmaker
October 1984
1989 Northern College of Further Education , Aberdeen
Consulting and design for an Electroacoustic studio
1993 'The Creator'
Users report for Dawsons' Music
1993 Manchester University. Department of Music.
Consulting, Designing and Specifications for a new Electro-acoustic Music
Studio.
1995 'A Single Performer Controlled Interface for Electronic Dance/Music
Theatre'
ICMC Proceedings 1995
1995 Electronics and Sound Designer
"A Passage to India"
An Interactive Sound Sculpture installation at Wakefield City Art Gallery.Commissioned
by Wakefield City Art Gallery
1996 Electronics Design and Construction
Sea France Interactives, Commissioned by The Science Museum, London
Three Midi Music Interactives for a cross channel ferry installation
1996 'An Interactive Sound Sculpture for the Visually Impaired' Ensemble
Research proceedings 1996
Ensemble Research conference proceedings 1996
1997 'An Interactive Sensory Control Mechanism for Virtuoso Trombone'.
ICMC Proceedings 1997
1998 'Zeitgeist - A Radio interface for real time control of Audio and
Visual performance. ISEA Proceedings 1998
1998 'Bodycoder - A Sensor suit and vocal performance mechanism for
real time performance' ICMC Proceedings 1998
1999 Paper: 'Inside Outside - Intensifying the collaborative process
through the use of new technology' Klangart Congress - Scientific congress
on new music technology. Osnabrueck, Germany.
2001 Paper: 'Lifting Bodies: Interactive dance - finding new methodologies
in the motifs prompted by new technology - a critique and progress report
with particular reference to the Bodycoder System'Organised Sound journal
5 (1) Cambridge University Press.
2001 Compilation Recording: 'Lifting Bodies' and 'Ghosts' released
on the compilation CD 'Sonic Art fromAberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield and
Newcastle' on MPS Music and Video MPSCD013
2001 Recording: 'Route' CD released on MPS Music and Video. MPSCD014.
Performance Collaborations and Compositions:
1977 Founder member of the Industrial Electronic group "Counterdance"
Numerous improvised concerts mainly in the UK
1986 "Laughter As Revenge"
Composer
Multi-media Performance Installation
Theatre-In-The-Mill
Bradford University"
1986 Composer & Sound Diffusion Engineer
Concert for Saxophone and Tape
Bradford University
1989 Collaborative Composer with Julie Wilson
"Suspended Sentences" Multi-Media Dance Theatre Performance
UK Premier - The Nicholas Treadwell Gallery
Touring - I.C.A London
Traverse Theatre - Edinburgh
Woughton Campus - Milton Keynes
Royal Theatre - Bath
Gulbenkian Studio Theatre - Newcastle
1990 "Kanal 1"
Sound Installation
Composer - Margaret Lucy Wilkins
Uk Premier
St, Pauls Hall
Huddersfield
1990 Collaborative Composer with Julie Wilson
"Blooming Bath"
Multi-Media Theatre Performance Installation
The Peter Ustinov Studio - Royal Theatre Bath
Special Commission
1990 Sound Producer
Zena Bast (Performer)
and Jan Pietrovski (Sculptor)
Performance Installation
UK Premier
Nicholas Treadwell Gallery
Touring - Yugoslavia 1991
1990 Composer
"Specific Space"
Multi-Media Dance Theatre Performance Installation
UK Premier
Huddersfield Art Gallery
For Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival & Kirklees
Metropolitan Council with Yorkshire & Humberside Arts.
1990 Composer
"Acts of Love, Passion and Sexual Desire"
A piece for Dancer / Actress and Live and Recorded Electronics at Bradford's
Theatre in the Mill.
1992 Composer
"Good Vibrations"
Piece for 4 electric shavers and percussion, St.Pauls hall.Huddersfield
1993 Composer
"Ghosts"
(stories from the Aboriginal Dream Time) at The Alhambra Theatre Studio,
Bradford, Commissioned by Yorkshire and Humberside Arts
1995 Composer and Designer
"The Navigator"
An interactive computerised performance at The Lawrence Batley Theatre,
Huddersfield.A full length production for solo actor/dancer featuring a
sensitised performance space.
1996 Recording,editing and engineering
"Astronauts"
A Channel 4 series broadcast in June 1996 dealing with the training and
life of NASA astronauts.Music by Naomi
Shead.
1997 Composer and designer
"Zero in the Bone" for Meta-trombone and interactive computer
electronics Performed by Barrie Webb as part of the University of Huddersfield's
Electric Spring programme.
1997 Composer and designer
"BodyCoder" for performer and wireless bodysuit - a real time
computer interactive performance utilising the 'performer as instrument'.Performed
by Julie Wilson-Bokowiec The Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield 17-18th
September.
1997 Recording,editing and engineering
"Westminster Women"
A London Weekend Television series broadcast in December 1997 dealing with
the life of women working in parliament.Music by Naomi Shead.
1998 Composer
"Ghosts" International Computer Music Conference Ann Arbor , Michigan
and 'The Electric Spring festival', University of Huddersfield.
1998 Composer
"Route" for 3 dancers and multiple video projections. The Lawrence
Batley Theatre, Huddersfield 2-3 December.
1999 Composer
"Zeitgeist" Klangart Congress, Osnabruek, Germany. A Piece for
the 'Bodycoder' system
1999 Composer
"Zeitgeist","Ghosts","Route","Lifting
Bodies" ( W.P. ) - at the 'Making Waves' festival, Budapest, Hungary
7 - 11 October. Organised by the Hungarian Computer Music Foundation and
supported by The British Council.
1999 Composer
"Route" International Computer Music Conference Beijing , China.
2000 Composer
"Tricorder' ERTA Kongress, Paderborn , Germany and The Purcell Rooms,
London commissioned with funds made available by Yorkshire Arts.
2000 Composer "Cyborg Dreaming"Commissioned by The Science
Museum, London A piece using the 'Bodycoder' system. 6 performances in the
Science Museum's new Wellcome wing.
2002 Composer "Spiral Fiction" an interactive multi-media
performance commissioned by Manchesters' Digital Summer
Conferences and Research:
1993 Music Technology in Education
organised by Dawsons Music and Roland UK
A weekend conference at Upton St.Leonards,Gloucester
Delegates by invitation only.
1994 The First National Conference in Enabling Technology for the Arts.
A weekend conference held in Chester.
Seminar presented - Five group lectures/demonstrations on the practical
use of alternate Midi controllers
1994 Practical Controllers
A days workshop held in Exeter
Tutorial presented - 2 sessions of practical controller manufacture and
design.
1994 Fact Finding
Visit In September to Opcode Systems in Palo Alto, California and Digidesign
in Menlo Park California with the intention of looking at the possibility
of future collaborations with respect to software design and testing
1995 Ensemble Research Group
Member The Ensemble Research Group hosted by the Music Technology Group
at The University of York.
Ensemble was formed to explore enabling technologies for special ` needs
and the performing arts.
1995 International Computer Music Conference
'Digital Playgrounds'
Banff Centre, Canada
Poster 'A Single Performer Controlled Interface for Electronic Dance/Music
Theatre'
Paper published in ICMC proceedings
1996 Fact finding
Visit in May, I visited STEIM in Amsterdam with the intention of of looking
at the possibility of future collaborations with respect to soft/hardware
design and real time performances in the Netherlands.
1996 'Access to Music'
Ensemble Research Group conference
Chester,UK
Paper 'An Interactive Sound Sculpture for the Visually Impaired'
Workshop 'Attractive Instrument Design'
Paper published in conference proceedings
1997 3 weeks residency - STEIM, Amsterdam
1997 International Computer Music Conference
Thessaloniki, Greece
Poster 'An Interactive Sensory Control Mechanism for Virtuoso Trombone'.
Paper published in ICMC proceedings
1998 International Symposium for the Electronic Arts
Manchester, England
Bodycoder 2 - A Radio interface for real time control of Audio and Visual
performance. ISEA Proceedings 1998
1998 International Computer Music Conference
Ann Arbor , Michigan
Poster 'Bodycoder - A Sensor suit and vocal performance mechanism for real
time performance'
Paper published in ICMC proceedings
1999 Klangart Congress
Osnabruek, Germany
Paper 'The Bodycoder System: Intensifying the collaborative process through
the use of new technology'.
1999 Making Waves festival
Trafo Arts, Budapest, Hungary - 4 Masterclasses on the use of interactive
technologies integrating sound with movement using the Bodycoder system.
2002 Digital Summer
3 performances of 'Spiral Fiction' an interactive multi-media performance
commissioned by Manchester Digital Summer at The Green Room Manchester,
2002 Alternate Bodies conference
2 performances of 'Lifting Bodies' for Dancer, Bodycoder System, MSP and
live computer visualisations - Lancaster Town Hall 10th May. Organised by
The Cybernetics Group, Lancaster University as part of the Alternate Bodies
conference 2002
e-mail to Mark Bokowiec
Electronic Dance Theatre