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Writing

• Amergent music, Current works, Research, Writing

  Technoetic Arts 7.1

  07.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 Ascott, publishers Intellect, and [...]

• 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.

• Research, Writing

  MS Thesis

  03.02.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I earned my M.S. in the MIME (Masters of Immersive Mediated Environments) at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2000. Download a PDF file of my thesis, “Techniques for Interactive Composition and Sound Design: Composing a Musical Score for the First-Person Adventure Game ‘The Library’”

• Research, Writing

  Hz online journal

  03.02.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Hz (#9 Jan. 2007) published an illustrated version of my paper “Composition-Instrument: musical emergence and interaction” This version includes images illustrating the art and media works discussed in the paper.

• 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.”

• Writing

  Flash Savvy series

  02.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Flash 8 Savvy With the help of Sham Bhangal, Ethan Watrall and I completed a third Flash book with greater depth and more advanced topics. “Flash 8 Savvy” was published in April of 2006. Flash MX 2004 Savvy This thorough revision to the original “Flash MX Savvy” was published in December of 2003. Flash MX [...]

• 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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