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• Amergent music, Research, Writing

  PhD Thesis is Online

  01.16.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Amergent Music: behavior and becoming in technoetic & media arts was accepted by my examiners at the University of Plymouth, UK. I owe much thanks to all of my supervisors (Roy Ascott, John Matthias & Brian Eno), as well as to my colleagues in the Planetary Collegium and at Indiana University, Bloomington. If you want [...]

• Amergent music, Collaborations, Past works, Research, Writing

  ‘Pac-Man Pop Music’ Chapter Available as PDF

  01.04.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  My chapter ‘The Composition-Instrument: emergence, improvisation and interaction in games and new media’ appeared in the book From Pac-Man to Pop Music: interactive audio in games and new media, edited by Karen Collins in 2007. This chapter is now available by permission of the Publishers of ‘The Composition-Instrument: emergence, improvisation and interaction in games and new [...]

• Amergent music, Collaborations, Generative music, Research, Writing

  Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio

  01.04.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Call for Papers: The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio Deadline for Proposals: 1 April 2011 The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio is under contract at Oxford University Press. Through a collection of chapters on interactivity in music and sound, the book is meant to offer a new set of analytical tools for the growing field [...]

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

  Retired research blog: Amergent Music

  01.04.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Writings on music and interaction for digital art, entertainment, and communications. I earned my PhD through the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth, England. www.x-tet.com/blog (formerly blog.x-tet.com) was used to document progress towards my thesis/dissertation in reading, writing, music, art, and media projects.

• Amergent music, Current works, Research, Writing

  Technoetic Arts 7.1

  11.03.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  (originally published July 2009) 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 [...]

• Amergent music, Current works, Research, Writing

  First-, Second-, & Third-order Cybernetics for Music and Mediated Interaction

  10.04.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Implicitly or explicitly, Cybernetics plays a role in works of Experimental, Ambient, and Generative music. This talk will introduce Amergent music, a genre that draws from these musical traditions and creates a third-order cybernetic stipulation in works of technoetic and media art. Drawing on the work of Maturana & Varela and Martin Heidegger, Amergent music [...]

• Amergent music, Current works, Research

  PhD Thesis Progress (in IOGraph)

  06.28.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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’”

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