Fieldwork is a software environment for improvised performance with electronic sound and animation. Two musicians’ sounding performances are fed into the system, and analyzed for pitch, rhythm, and timbral change. When the software recognizes a sharp contrast in one performer’s textures or gestures, it reflects this change by transforming the sound of the other musician’s [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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]
“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 [...]
BeatMe is a solo performance with video projection, sound and double bass.
The video/sound/Text is handled with Max/MSP, triggered by a midi-foot switch, giving the control of what is happening while playing the music.
Thinking about the relation of music and moving images gave me the idea of bending the codes of composition for visuals and music [...]