Prototype for interspecies new media performance, 01:30 min excerpt Yellow Ball is part of an experimental series of performances called Canine Haiku. The series draws attention to intentionality and expressiveness of nonhumans, and relational ontologies of our shared ecologies. In Canine Haiku, recorded vocals of Tom [canine collaborator], haiku poetry, and computational autonomous systems, propose depictions of canine, human, computer relational space. The project is informed by practices of Zen, Beat poetry, jazz and Japanese music, computational aesthetics, and ball chasing with dogs. The custom Max/MSP software selects and plays a canine vocal track that, in real-time, triggers visual effects and semiautonomous ‘instrument’ accompaniments based on expressive characteristics of Tom's voice.
