Arvid Tomayko-Peters
Piece Title: Improvisation with The TOOB
The TOOB is a unique wireless electronic instrument created to extend wind instrument performance techniques into the electroacoustic realm. The TOOB has been tweaked for over two years to give the performer a vast but intuitive range of sonic choices, allowing creative freedom in solo or group improvisation. The instrument senses breath, finger pressure, tilt and acceleration and has several other tactile controls. Sound is created and processed using Max/MSP/Jitter.
Arvid Tomayko-Peters is a Providence based musician, instrument builder and composer working in electronic media. He is a recent graduate of Brown University’s MEME undergraduate program where, among other endeavors, he created audio and video experiences out of millions of years of paleoclimate data from the geologic record. Arvid has performed in Providence, Boston, New York and Provincetown. Recently he performed at the Pixilerations Festival in Providence, Cryptic Providence (music and art in one of Providence’s oldest graveyards), The Speaker Project at MassArt and won 4th place at the first annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech. More information, video and audio is available at arvidtp.net and arvidtp.net/portfolio.