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Experiments

• 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 [...]

• A-Life, Experiments, Generative music, Past works, Research

  A(rt) Life Study

  03.11.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  A(rt)Life is a new project, initiated Summer 2005. This study uses the PSO algorithm and explores the connection between swarm dynamics and specific parameters of a music composition. Unlike my other PSO-related works this example is only available as an MP3. Launch max.s.o.mp3

• Experiments, Generative music, Past works

  Word is Virus

  03.11.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  This project is based on the cut-up techniques used by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Burroughs gave a lecture where he discussed his and Gysin’s experiments with cut ups at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in April of 1976. This piece takes that lecture and cuts it into an ever-changing variety of [...]

• Experiments, Past works

  “Clapping Music” Variation

  03.10.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  This is a variation on “Clapping Music” by Steve Reich. I am interested in Reich’s concept of the “gradual process” and wanted to try an experiment: Could I create a performance of this piece for the web? In my variation you can assume the role of audience or performer. To be in the audience you [...]

• A-Life, Experiments, Generative music, Past works

  Particle Swarm Optimization [1]

  03.10.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  PSO[1] is my first composition that used the particle swarm algorithm of Kennedy and Eberhart to perform music.

• Experiments, Generative music, Past works

  Tonal Clusters

  03.10.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  This project was completed in May, 2004. Music, as an element of interactive design, shares an equal significance with color palette, typography, imagery, layout, and animation. This piece explores that relationship through the use of non-linear musical composition. Launch Tonal Clusters

• Experiments, Generative music, Past works

  ENO-like series

  03.09.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  An ongoing series of experiments modeled after the tape-loop techniques used by Brian Eno. In these Flash movies I am using digital audio files and ActionScript to achieve the effects he created with analog tape loops. ENO-like: 1 @625K ENO-like: 2 @561K ENO-like: 3 @733K ENO-like: 4 @263K

• Amergent music, Experiments, Generative music, Research, Writing

  Research blog: Amergent Music

  03.02.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Writings on music and interaction for digital art, entertainment, and communications. I am a PhD student in the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth, England. blog.x-tet.com documents progress towards my thesis/dissertation in reading, writing, music, art, and media projects.

• Experiments, Generative music, Writing

  Thoughts on music for interactivity

  11.03.08 | Permalink | Comments Off

  A few words from 2004 on what I do and why. There are also a few links with musical/interactive examples. “When I started composing for interactivity it was immediately apparent that one of the medium’s greatest challenges would be the unpredictability of time. Time posed questions such as ‘when will someone click to make their [...]

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