Groovology II is the second installation of an installation work to learn and create music. This project is a collaboration with Stejpan Rajko of urbanSTEW who has developed a majority of the graphical programming. My part has been the audio design and programming. We are using Processing with libpd, consult this page for more on …
With urbanSTEW and Crossing 32nd Street on March 23-24 performed three concerts laced with interactive art installations and games. We brought in the composer Cristyn Magnus and premiered her new piece, “Percussion vs. Percussion” a two player game piece where each player uses a battery of instruments to control a simple game space. The festival …
On January 26th, 2012 Crossing 32nd Street performing at Chabot College in Hayward, CA. We played: Music for Pieces of Wood by Steven Reich Temezcal by Javier Alvarez Fireflies by Eric Schultz Credo in US by John Cage Boom! by Terry Longshore and Brett Reed Drumming part 1 by Steven Reich This picture was taken …
Since early January 2012 I have been working with libpd, which is an embedded library allowing developers to use Pure Data as a sound engine in their applications. If you have not used Pure Data it is a patcher language for audio synthesis and MIDI developed by Miller Puckette many years ago. It’s sister language, …
An avant-garde buffet of intensity and grace. We played the following: For a Large Open Space by James Tenney Three Songs from Mad Coyote by Peter Garland Critical Band by James Tenney Workers’ Union by Louis Andriessen Fireflies by Eric Schultz (X32ST band member) In C by Terry Riley This photo includes Simone Mancuso, Myself, …
Groovolgy is a skill-based game where people compete against themselves, and others, to test and analyze their groove-abilities. The game is inspired by a post-Guitar Hero world where good grooves can defeat evil. Groovology is in it’s very early stages and will eventually evolve into an immersive game experience where beats battle and music is …
A sample of a recent work composed and produced for the Arts and Business Council of Greater Phoenix. Four Scenes from the Urban Southwest (composed by Robert Esler and Lisa Tolentino)
Taken from radiohealer.com “Radio Healer is an art project facilitated through patient and respectful cross-cultural partnerships between artists of Native American, Chicano, Ilocano, European, and Euro-American backgrounds. These partnerships form dialogues where artists mentor each other to create ritual performances that demonstrate respectful, accountable, and co-intentional collaboration. Radio Healer contributes to the health and vitality …
This past summer, 2011, Lisa Tolentino and I taught a group of approximately 20 students in the Philippines how to play and perform music and use a variety of open source software to create digital media. We focused on teaching the students abstract concepts that directly relate to computational thinking. Music was perfect for this. …
Arizona State University Xenakis Festival performing Iannis Xenakis” “Persephassa” with Crossing 32nd Street. Other events included Glendale Community College and Civic Space in Central Phoenix.