http://www.3than.com/wordpress Accidental music is beautiful as well. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:07:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Link This isn't exactly a brilliant new development, but I built a feedback loop device into a wah pedal enclosure, which allows for an intuitive control over your feedback-noise performances, especially if you're already using your hands for other things (say, playing guitar or keyboards, or even twiddling with other knobs). ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=37 Link I've updated the Sparklesound patch to work with delay lines instead of sound grains. This cleans up both the interaction (which is much more straightforward, presenting a set of pervasive on/off options instead of triggering semi-random events) and also the sound. I'm pleased with the interaction, but I ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=35 Link This is a demo for a monome 40h/64 patch I've been working on in ChucK. It's a tool for granularizing the sound input through your computer's soundcard. Basically, there is a set of eight filter banks, one for each row of monome keys. If you don't touch anything, the ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=14 Link For this project, I used some video that Brett and I shot when we were driving from out to California several years ago. I wrote the music to go along with it, and the process seemed to fix the memories in a new way. Most of the audio was composed ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=13 Link For a class assignment on synesthesia, I decided to build something to turn a video input into sound. This was in some ways a culmination of a several interactions I created with the clear purpose of being counter-intuitive. In this case, the video camera provides the material to ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=12 Link This piece is a simple music video, as opposed to documentation of a performance; there's not really any technical wizardry here, but I am really pleased with the way it came out, especially the song. The recording isn't very clean, but my vocal happened quickly and was really heartfelt. ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=10 Link This is documentation of a final project for a class on human-computer interaction. This video gives a clear idea of the interactions, and hints at some of the musical material that Jeff, one of my collaborators and a fantastic dj, was able to do with it. Jeff's ability ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=8 Link This is a piece that I did at the end of my first semester at CCRMA. While it may seem a bit goofy to some, once the elements were there, it all seemed quite obvious to me. This video is about five minutes of me controlling a feedback loop with ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=7 Here we have a recording that turned me on to the possibilities of sound: it was found on a friend's hard drive, and he'd clearly recorded it as he was walking home one night. There is a wonderful percussive element from cloth rubbing the microphone; I also like the section when the truck ... http://www.3than.com/wordpress/?p=3