In June of 2012 a group of approximately 30 percussionists and somewhere around five to eight staff organized and recorded John Luther Adam’s work “Inuksuit” for 9-99 percussionists in outdoor spaces. This project is being produced by Doug Perkins and Guilford Sound in Vermont. There is a possibility that urbanSTEW will produce the software application … [Read more…]
April 17-21, ASU hosted a celebration of the composer John Cage. 2012 commemorates 100 years after the birth of the famed composer. Doug Nottingham organized a version of Variations III, which essentially hosts works within the work. I am sitting in my setup of Fontana Mix, based on a graphical score, as part of Crossing … [Read more…]
Groovology II is the second installation of a series of games designed 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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
Garth Paine and I performed a quasi-improvisation at the Emerge event at Arizona State University, which was a large-scoped conference and concert event that speculated on the future through science fiction and academic wizardy. Garth is using a Wacom tablet interfaced with the robust DSP engine of the Kyma software and hardware platform. I am … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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, … [Read more…]
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, … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]