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• A-Life, Amergent music, Current works, Generative music

  Baby Reindeer

  11.12.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Baby Reindeer” is a generative music app for iPhone and iPod Touch. See a preview at the Apple iTunes site App in the iTunes Store App web site (details & suport) The “baby reindeer” is actually a toy—the Fisher-Price “Ocean Wonders Soothe and Glow Seahorse.” It was a gift to my son, who cuddled with [...]

• Collaborations, Current works, Generative music

  Sound Art at Waveforms

  10.21.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  The gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter (Norbert Herber & Rowland Ricketts, 2011) can be seen & heard as part of Waveforms, “an exhibition of interdisciplinary art works showcasing sound as the principle component. This exhibition explores, through an examination of creative and artistic practices, the interface of sound and new media technologies. The [...]

• Amergent music, Current works, Research, Writing

  Technoetic Arts 7.1

  11.03.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  (originally published July 2009) I wrote a paper “Dérive en Mille Sons” for the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. It has just been re-published as “Dérive entre Mille Sons: a psychogeographic approach to mobile music and mediated interaction” in Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research. Much thanks to journal editor Roy [...]

• A-Life, Current works, Experiments

  Sanding

  11.03.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m currently experimenting with some guitar recordings I made with an EBow. The music is produced with two long drones that are fed through a variety of signal processes. Of these, the most important is the NeuroGranular Sampler designed by John Matthias and Nick Ryan for use in their larger piece The Fragmented Orchestra created [...]

• Amergent music, Current works, Research, Writing

  First-, Second-, & Third-order Cybernetics for Music and Mediated Interaction

  10.04.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Implicitly or explicitly, Cybernetics plays a role in works of Experimental, Ambient, and Generative music. This talk will introduce Amergent music, a genre that draws from these musical traditions and creates a third-order cybernetic stipulation in works of technoetic and media art. Drawing on the work of Maturana & Varela and Martin Heidegger, Amergent music [...]

• Amergent music, Current works, Research

  PhD Thesis Progress (in IOGraph)

  06.28.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The full text of my PhD thesis is TOP SECRET until the entire thing is complete and the viva voce has been passed. But there is progress nonetheless! Here is some “proof” that work is moving forward. IOGraph “…is an application that turns mouse movements into a modern art.” All mouse movements are captured as trails and all [...]

• Amergent music, Collaborations, Current works, Generative music

  FOUND

  09.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7PM @ 101E. 6th Street Bloomington, Indiana 7PM – 1AM / All ages welcome $5 / Beer and wine cash bar A globally cool, local evening of art, design and creative industries celebrating sustainable practices. FOUND is an extravaganza of sights, sounds and interactions with artists, designers, creatives, musicians, DJs, VJs [...]

• Current works

  x-tet.com redesign

  03.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Look Mom! WordPress! This represents the first major design overhaul of x-tet.com since 2003. Sure, I still like Japanese action figures, but a revised look and structure for this site was long overdue… Thank you Upstart Blogger for the very cool Minim theme—it’s just what I wanted. Converting an existing web site to a blog [...]

• A-Life, Amergent music, Current works, Research

  Sound Garden

  03.11.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Asynchronous improvisation by me, you + others. Following Perturb, Sound Garden is the second work in a series of musical installations that explore the relationship of people, location, and audio relative to technology. Sound Garden was composed for Arts Week 2007 at Indiana University, Bloomington. The project originally ran from 21 February to 7 March, [...]

• Amergent music, Current works, Experiments, Generative music, Research

  Composition-Instrument Studies

  03.11.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  A musical exploration of space, with reference to Henri Bergson, Guy Debord, Kevin Lynch, and Henri Lefebvre. These studies require the arrow keys of a standard computer keyboard and the Flash player. Launch first study: Dérive Launch second study: Mazes This research has taken me to some unexpected and very interesting places. “Psychogeography” in the [...]

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