Feedback Loops, All The Way Down

Feedback Loops, All The Way Down is an exploration of feedback loops and limited audience participation in an enclosed environment. The name comes from a mantra repeated in order to center and calm me down when I become overwhelmed by anxiety. The universe is a series of complex and interconnected feedback loops that influence every aspect of our lives and …

Chucked Braille

 Michaella Moon Chucked Braille is a New Interfaces for Musical Expression that uses the braille alphabet with a keyboard input. This NIME is built with Processing and ChucK. CHUCKED BRAILLE takes the braille alphabet system and converts it to musical notes. The braille alphabet consists of 6 dot that are raised, or in this case, selected, to form a …

WEB OF UNDERSTANDING

By Karan Vohra The stock market is a fascinating place that is balanced by the effects of countless intertwining agents. While to most of us it would seem chaotic and unstable, through varying methodologies, a few have discovered the underlying structure of it all. I’m eager to pursue the derivations of these methodologies and gain some experience in analysing complex …

JUNGLE JAM

KAMYI LEE GOAL I am exploring how machining learning approaches can create tools to help children in their early developments. I am applying digital data on physical objects to create a sensory environment to provide a richer textural experience to construct a 3 dimensional world for children. CULTURE There are many existing tools that engage with children’s arbitrary association between visual …

NAMI

SARA SITHI-AMNUAI GOAL I wanted to develop a new interface for trumpet that explores identity and privileges improvisation and live performance interaction between the performer’s body and their instrument (trumpet) through gesture and sound. DESCRIPTION Nami – is a custom built glove interface designed for live musical performance and specifically for trumpet player. The interface is fitted on the left …

LANDSCAPE GRIEF

by Kathleen Fox GOAL: The goal of landscape grief is an exploration of the language we use to mourn online through the lens of Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein, when writing her plays, did not focus on the plot as the leading force in her story. She instead focused on the idea of landscape and used language to create landscapes that …

In the Bath

 In the Bath In the Bath is short form radio play inspired segment written in collaboration with a script writing RunwayML model trained on the following scripts: Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro), Basic Instinct (Joe Eszterhas), and Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson). I fed the model a page of my own writing as a start, and then filled in, edited, …

Animal

Eric Heep A mechatronic performance between a human and a sonic sculpture. The framing of the experience ended up the bulk of the piece. After I finished the sculpture, I finally got to the programing; this was a day before the performance was slated. I didn’t have anything to do that day, so I setup in the kitchen and started …

(+/-) Pendulum

Raphael Arar What does location mean in the information age? Using the mechanics of the Foucault Pendulum, this installation explores the physical and digital concepts of location. Concept The embodiment of physicality amidst digital noise has the potential to artificially harmonize notions of humanity. With one foot digital and one foot analog, how do we make sense of an environment …