Prototyping “TwelveStep”
“TwelveStep” is the working title for a wireless dodecahedral step-sequencer and MIDI controller.
View ArticleEggBeater!
EggBeater uses the intuitive power of rhythm to let anyone control the playback of music. Shaking this small, wireless device in regular patterns can automatically adjust the tempo and timing of...
View ArticleManifold Voices live at ISSUE Project Room
Last Tuesday at ISSUE Project Room I performed a new experimental music piece titled “Manifold Voices:” Thanks so much to my players: Jessie Shaffer, Henry Bigelow, and Matt Boyle. Read on for lots...
View ArticleContinuum.Puncta: Steve Litt + Ted Hayes
Live @ Monkeytown, May 22, 2009: Continuum.Puncta In a novel collaboration, artist and composer Ted Hayes combined his languid “function drones” with sonic inventor Steve Litt’s “CrudBox,” a...
View ArticleThesis Research Part I
Sketches of possible sculptural forms (these are roughly 8-10″ in height). The first four are my favorites: Sound prototyping: A short composition of 4-7 sine wave oscillators harmonizing and...
View ArticlePuréeData: Realtime Collaborative Patching
PuréeData is a browser-based PureData interface for a remote, central server that allows live, collaborative patching for anyone, anywhere. Using Pd’s internal messaging system and an accompanying...
View ArticleVox Mensuræ
Vox Mensuræ (The Measured Voice) is a graphical depiction of the quantization of sound, an end result of the process that converts audible waves of air pressure into numbers. Each row is a single...
View ArticleArduino: Compensating for a Logarithmic Curve
Did you know that the scale of acoustic pitches is logarithmic? This means that, even though we perceive the scale of notes as increasing or decreasing linearly, the actual frequencies are doubling or...
View ArticleDeconspectrum
Update: The electrical schematic, PCB and software is now on Github. We humans tend to treat our perceptions as holistic—as seeing things as things, instead of as an accumulation of parts, details and...
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