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Generative music

• Generative music, Past works

  Vox Novus 60×60

  03.09.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  A version of my generative piece “Trak News Agency” was accepted to be part of the 2003 Vox Novus 60×60 concert and CD. Launch my 60×60 player

• Generative music, Past works

  Trak News Agency Series

  03.09.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  The Trak News Agency is a news-writing organization from William Burroughs’ novel “The Soft Machine.” This series was composed in February and March of 2003. Given the political climate at the time, the concept of a news-writing agency seemed only too familiar. The music heard in these works is a kind of amalgamation, reflecting many [...]

• 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.

• Amergent music, Generative music, Research, Writing

  From Pac-Man to Pop Music

  03.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  “From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media” is edited by Karen Collins and will be published by Ashgate. I contributed a chapter entitled “The Composition-Instrument: emergence, improvisation, and interaction in games and new media.”

• 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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