Over the last couple months I’ve had the chance to develop a series of “paintings” for the fiberoptic tapestry, a new display system developed by artists Ligorano/Reese. It is essentially a hand-woven canvas of optic fibers, each illuminated by an electronically-controlled LED. The result is incredibly beautiful and expressive, producing a painterly effect. I was [...]
How Puredata can be used to translate sound to a restricted sequence of discrete notes.
It’s that time of year again. Christmas is coming, snow is falling outside my window, and the wind is whistling. Maybe it’s late, or my mind is playing tricks on me, but the wind seems a bit more coherent than usual… Musical, even. Creepy.
windsong.mp3
This is how I’d like to imagine the first Christmas–even the wind [...]
After a weekend workshop (thanks to Hans-Christoph Steiner and Eyebeam) on Pure Data, I’ve been tinkering with it quite a bit lately and geeking out on old signal processing stuff I haven’t touched since college.
Over the years I’ve played with a number of tools for audio processing: Matlab, jMusic, a Java library for algorithmic composition, Nyquist, a [...]
