The projects I am doing and have done.
This project was an exploratory collaboration artist with Lauren Strohacker and urbanSTEW. The Coyote Anthropophony was an investigation into the role of the coyote in the urban landscape. Moreover, we were exploring the various social connections the animal has with its surroundings. Lauren was selected for the Scottsdale Public Art Creative Residency and this project … [Read more…]
Animal Companion was an exhibit at the Heard Museum for their Super Heroes exhibit from May 2015 to August 2015. The basic idea was to incorporate five animals that are significant to several native tribes in Arizona into an interactive media installation. The installation was created by my arts collective urbanSTEW. Our design concept … [Read more…]
Cetus Square is a generative, ambient music and soundscape application. The music this application creates will never repeat, and will never end until you say so. In the background you may hear whale-like sounds (i.e, the constellation Cetus), these are all generated too. None of the sounds you are hearing are recorded, which means you … [Read more…]
A collaboration between urbanSTEW and ASU Physics Professor Dr. Vaiana, the purpose of this project is to create a multifaceted artwork that will bring research about intrinsically disordered proteins to life. Makezine just recently featured our work in progress, read more here: http://makezine.com/magazine/the-amyloid-project/ My main contribution to the project is the audio design and music composition. … [Read more…]
For many years I have wanted to develop a generative music system that uses passive interactivity. Essentially, a system that generates music based on the users’ everyday activity. In 2012 I developed the first of a series of generative music objects, programmed in C++. The first is simply called dynamo, which stands for Dynamic Musical … [Read more…]
In 1913 a group of Italian Futurists proposed a bold treatise, that noises (of all types) deserve to be included in the musical lexicon as equals to their instrumental equivalents. With that being said, Luigi Russolo and Francesco Balilla Pratella decided to take this a step further and create quasi-instruments or rather Intonarumori to produce a bricolage … [Read more…]
Streaming input/output on the Raspberry Pi using Pure Data by urbanSTEW Posted Nov. 21st, 2012 For a few months there has been a clear issue in executing simultaneous I/O using the Raspberry Pi and Pure Data. The basic problem was that you could get either input (using a USB interface) or output but not at … [Read more…]
Our talk focused on the common issue in digital art of computing performance vs. cost. How do artists utilize portable computing devices (e.g the Arduino, BeagleBoard, Raspberry Pi) to suit their artistic needs? It is a cost benefit analyst that gets quite complex. One device is easier to use but not as powerful, the other … [Read more…]
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…]