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Bourges

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:10:07 -0400

Piano Etudes was a jury selection for the 2009 Concours Internationaux de Bourges, an international competition in electroacoustic music and electronic arts. More info…

Book Chapter Online

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:01:48 -0400

I recently wrote a chapter on storage in networked art (and particularly in networked music) for Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art). The book is available freely online, and wiki-style contributions to extend the texts are encouraged. The book, which was created by Turbulence, NewMediaFix, Telic Arts Exchange, and Freewaves, was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Happy reading!

Piano Etudes Launched

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:53:16 -0500

Inspired by the tradition of open-form musical scores, I composed each of these four piano etudes as a collection of short musical fragments with links to connect them. In performance, the pianist must use those links to jump from fragment to fragment, creating her own unique version of the composition.

The pianist, though, should not have all the fun. So I also developed this web site, where you can create your own version of each etude, download it as an audio file or a printable score, and share it with others. In concert, pianists may make up their own version of each etude, or they may select a version created by a web visitor.

I'm excited to launch the Piano Etudes web site and hope you enjoy it!

Sound Microscope Launched

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:36:24 -0400

As part of my residency at iSAW in Miami, I developed (with help from Mark Godfrey) Sound Microscope, a simple web application for iSAW's educational outreach programs which explores the inner lives of sounds. The pan-and-zoom interface lets students isolate small fragments in the time and frequency space of a looping sound file, focusing on the structural subtleties and details they might not notice when hearing the entire sound. You can try out Sound Microscope yourself at iSAW's web site.

Arts Presenters Interview

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:11:10 -0400

I was recently interviewed for a podcast series from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and KadmusArts: you can listen to it here.

Flock Vision Toolkit

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:55:17 -0400

I'm pleased to announce the release of the Flock Vision Toolkit, a free set of computer vision objects for Cycling '74's Max / MSP / Jitter multimedia development environment. For more information and to download, please visit the Flock web site and click on the "software" link.

Flou Launched

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:46:40 -0500

Flou (pronounced "flew") is not exactly a game; you do fly a ship through space, but you cannot shoot anything, score points, or win or lose. The focus, rather, is on the soundtrack: as you navigate through a 3D world and zoom through objects in space, you add loops and apply effects to an ever-evolving musical mix. You can also design your own worlds to fly through and share them with other Flou users.

Flock Video Clips Online

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:13:21 -0400

Flock, my new evening-length work for saxophone quartet, video, and audience participation, recently premiered at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami on December 6, 7, and 8, 2007, during the Art | Basel | Miami Beach festival. Video clips of the performance, along with other documentation, are now available online. More...

Interview on Networked Music Review

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:18:05 -0400

Helen Thorington recently interviewed me for the Networked Music Review, a new research blog that is highly recommended reading in general. If you want to learn more about my ideas, background, and recent and current projects, the interview is a great place to start.

Shakespeare Cuisinart

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:31:57 -0400

Thanks to the generosity of Angel.com, Telephone Etude #1: Shakespeare Cuisinart is now celebrating its sixth year of operation. If you already called, then you can retrieve your cuisinart creation over the web.

Graph Theory

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:15:50 -0400

Graph Theory seeks to connect composition, listening, and concert performance by coupling an acoustic work for solo violin to an interactive web site. On the web site, users navigate among sixty-one short, looping musical fragments to create their own unique path through the composition.

The navigation choices which users make affect future concert performances of the work. Before each performance, the soloist prints out a new copy of the score from the web site. That score presents her with a fixed path through the piece; the order of the fragments is influenced by the decisions that recent web site visitors have made.