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 …
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 …
PHASE.1
Meason Wiley Phase.1 is first piece in an ongoing series of topographical sculptures depicting information we cannot see – the complex harmonic relationships of sound – by creating an augmented physical sound/data imprint of various sonic phenomena. Topographic Art is essentially art depicting places, buildings, and natural prospects in a realistic and detailed manner. This work attempts to focus on …
Meet The Bots
Video of the grand opening of the Machine Lab, including robots, touch table, custom interfaces, music, and more.
GRIDS BEATS GROUPS 2012
End of the year showcase for MTIID class, Grids, Beats and Groups, designed to facilitate and expand students’ creative ideas for performing/syncing real time audio and visuals in groups.
ChucK Concert
Roy O. Disney Concert Hall California Institute of the Arts December 2011
HEMISPHERICAL SPEAKERS
Meason Wiley In the summer of 2009, Jim Murphy and I were commissioned to build 12 hemispherical speakers for use in MTIID CalArts. The design is based on both the original work of Dan Truman and Curtis Bahn’s “Deloreon” speaker system, as well as Ge Wang’s less expensive model for use with the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk). The basis for …