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Written By: evan on January 22, 2012 No Comment
Interview with Viznut, Creator of Minimal Art Platform IBNIZ

Recently, this video of IBNIZ in action made its way around the electronic music blogosphere. IBNIZ is an extremely enigmatic art platform. It’s not necessarily easy, or pretty, or even broadly useful. IBNIZ is uniquely targeted at a small coterie of artists with specific aesthetic goals. I had the opportunity to [...]

Written By: evan on January 20, 2012 No Comment

Here is the last iteration in Sonic Space No. 2 written in SuperCollider. This is a quartet written for Soprano Sax, Trumpet, Tenor Sax, and Tuba. The movement around the space was not dictated but instead came from the musicians curiosity to listen and play in a different position. Although you cannot [...]

Written By: evan on January 7, 2012 2 Comments

Letting It Go To Voicemail is about communication anxiety. It’s about the stress that builds up when we think about our inbox or our voicemail. It’s about the overwhelming crush of communication that comes our way each week, and how it impacts us mentally.

Letting It Go To Voicemail is hyper-minimal in construction, consisting of only [...]

Written By: evan on January 7, 2012 No Comment

Rendering video in Processing is easy. The MovieMaker class makes it incredibly easy to render Quicktime video files from a Processing sketch. Unfortunately, Processing doesn’t supply tools for rendering audio using the MovieMaker class. Hence, rendering the output from a multimedia program can really be a headache.

I’ve spent a lot of time working [...]

Written By: evan on December 31, 2011 No Comment

As demonstrated by the video, IBNIZ (Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo) is a virtual machine and a programming language that generates video and audio from very short strings of code. Technically, it is a two-stack machine somewhat similar to Forth, but with the major execption that the stack is cyclical and also used at an [...]

Written By: evan on November 3, 2011 No Comment

First of all, I probably shouldn’t attribute this algorithm to Phil Burk. I imagine that many people have implemented a version of this algorithm. It’s a simple, almost fundamental musical algorithm, but he is the first person who brought it to my attention, so for the time being, I will call it Phil [...]

Written By: evan on October 25, 2011 One Comment

the piece uses audio transcriptions of both electroencephalograms (EEGs) – polygraph wave-traces of electrical activity occurring within my brain – and magnetic resonance images (MRIs) to address our susceptibility to acousmatic activity, or involuntary auditory hallucinations; or, it may just be viewed as a journey through my head and back again. [1]

Written By: evan on October 15, 2011 No Comment

“Cannot Connect” is a problem for both computers and for people. When dealing with technology, we receive this message when we try to use something new. For people, this can be a problem in every sort of relationship.

The keyboard is a tool that people use every day to try to connect with other people. Through [...]

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