Imagined Systems
I was recently featured on Berlin Reboot FM discussing some of my sound work, the episode is embedded above for listening. The episode’s page is here.
From my interest in data sonification and feedback systems, I constructed an environment to create music from the movement of ants. As they move about, some custom software tracks their positions through a camera and creates audio waveforms which are then transmitted into the sand substrate through a speaker coil. The audio vibrations cause shifts [...]
I think one of the least-appreciated features of the new generation of smartphones is the voice recorder. We’re all taking more photos than ever, yet forgetting to capture a significant part of our everyday experience: sound. Lately I’ve made it a point to record interesting sounds I encounter as I go about my day. Interestingly, [...]
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. This is how I’d like to imagine the first Christmas–even the [...]
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, [...]
An interactive piece translating 2D forms to sound.
An experimental, interactive audio synthesizer in which independent generators combine to create an ambient soundscape as they try to reach a state of equilibrium.
