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Genuary 2023, a month long creative coding challenge by and for generative artists, came and went more than a month ago. I participated for the first time this year. Still frames from my outputs for the year and reflections lie below.
University of Maine’s Digital Curation program hosted a webinar titled “Decentering the Web: From Platforms to Protocols” today at 11:00 AM EST. Jon Ippolito and John Bell were the hosts. The panelists were Glen Weyl and Mike Maizels. The writing below contains my thoughts, scribbled notes, or impressions, and I encourage verification of content before acting upon anything.
From September 9 - 24, I was an Artist in Residence at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY. This post features select reflections from this amazing first residency experience. Thank you for the opportunity, Bethany Arts Community. Thank you for the companionship in the experience, fellow artists in residence.
This past week, SableRaph (Raphaël De Courville) posted a prompt of 📜 text adventure 💾 for his Weekly Creative Coding Challenge. I chose to interpret the prompt of text adventure as adventuring through the text of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”.
It’s that time of year where we submit abstracts to the student symposium! As an Intermedia MFA student, I submitted an abstract related to my thesis to the University of Maine 2022 Student Symposium (UMSS).
Amidst the craze of the pandemic and election art life and university life went on. I made projects, learned about research in art and experiments in art, led a lab section, and formed a few opinions about creating collaborative work. I gave an overview of my practice and gave an interview. Read more to learn what I have been working on between September 2020 and now.
Elsewhere is a video based project I created in 2020. Elsewhere investigates presence, thought, memory, and alternative methods of human connection. Images drawn from past memories regularly replace an image of the current. Sounds generated using data from voices heard in the same memories are overlaid on top of a sound representing the regular happenings of the brain. The appearances of sounds and images were carefully distributed to investigate how thoughts might be generated. While creating Elsewhere, I drew inspiration from neuroscience, physics, mathematical modeling, and whimsy.
September 3rd marked my first day as an Intermedia MFA graduate student at the University of Maine. This is an exciting new adventure that will, in some parts, be documented through this website.
Back in July, on the 22, I had the honor of hosting a workshop at Codeland Conference 2019. It was an amazing experience. Not only did I get to share my love of Making Musical Code with the wonderfully intelligent and helpful members of my workshop, I got to meet a lot of other amazing newbies and speak alongside so many inspiring speakers. I also got a chance to try a VR setup which gave me inspiration for future projects.
Music Community Lab (MCL) put together a write-up of the events of Live Code Lab 2019, back in February. This is just a brief synopsis of my experience.
A lot has changed in my life over the last couple of months. Here’s a brief run down of what has occupied my time when I took a slight hiatus from updating my site. Some of it was great, but other parts, not so much.
Once the Vortex of Sound is working properly, there will potentially be thousands of instruments swirling around a listener’s head. In an attempt to make some of the melody distinguishable, I have decided to create layers in the vortex.
I picked up a project partner. His name is Marc Langer. Marc is a musician who studied physics.
How can I send music around in a vortex of sound without creating a model of a vortex? A major portion of the work behind the Vortex of Sound concept lies in the mathematical modelling of the shape.
The main project I have been working on over the last year is Vortex of Sound. The goal is to use mathematics and traditional composition techniques to create an interesting headphone-based audio experience. Once complete, sound will spiral around a listener in various ways.
My current project involves sounds moving in space around a listener’s head. This post explores one way to make it seem like sound is moving.
It’s been a while since I last blogged. So many things have happened in the last month and a bit, many which deserve their own updates. Therefore, this post is an overview of what happened, as well as a commemoration post, celebrating finishing one notebook!
A little more than a week ago, on April 7, I attended Flawless Hackathon 2018.
Minima’s great, but everyone’s blog looked like mine. So, I decide to follow along with the Learn Enough Society’s tutorial, in hopes of creating a more interesting looking blog.
I’ve been meaning to write posts using plots. Also, generally, I would like to create plots that I an embed in my browser, as opposed to taking images and using those.
I am continuing to follow along with the FLOSS Manuals Pure Data, and have gotten up to making Oscillators. As I needed to do slightly more research than just reading the manual to follow along with the tutorial (I also needed to watch this video to figure out the steps), I shall list the steps.
Thor recommended I check out Pure Data as a music programming platform. Here’s a record of my first foray into the Pure Data world.
Every once and a while, life steamrolls over my plans. Sometimes, this means I get sick. At other times, it just means I am overly optimistic when I predict how much I could accomplish in a time period. Very rarely, there’s a serious monkey-wrench that has disrupted my life. Whatever happens, I try to go with the flow.
Fall 2017 was a great season for me as a performer. Here’s a list of the performances I was fortunate enough to participate in.
For those who don’t know, my job, for the forseeable future, is that of an after school STEAM instructor at The Digital Arts Experience. This means that recently, I have taught kids to code in Python, and have directed them through fun coding exercises using Edison Robots and the EdPy program and Processing.
I am writing this blog using Jekyll. The Jekyll documentation notes that there is a way to make your blog render mathematics notation. In following posts, I will find this very useful, so today, I shall implement MathJax. Perhaps, in the future, I can find a way to render music nicely too?
After typing git commit Filename.file, instead of git commit -m "Your commit message here", I found that
I got the error
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