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• Amergent music, Current works, Research

  PhD Thesis Progress (in IOGraph)

  06.28.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• A-Life, Amergent music, Research

  Documentation: Sound Garden 2009

  12.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul (USA) to showcase their work to the public. I was invited to Spark 2009 to show my installation Sound Garden and give a [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

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

  Perturb

  03.11.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  An asynchronous improvisation by me, you + others at the SoFA gallery in Bloomington, IN. Sound material is to be provided by those who vist the piece. Join in the performance with your own short recordings, samples, soundscapes, and found sonic objects. Launch Perturb project site

• 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.

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