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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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• Research

  Roy Ascott Retrospective

  03.15.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Syncretic Sense 4 April – 24 May 2009 Plymouth Arts Centre The first UK retrospective exhibition of the pioneering cybernetic artist Roy Ascott, curated in collaboration with i-DAT (Institute for Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth). Long before email and the internet, Roy Ascott started using online computer networks as an art medium [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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.”

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