I spent spring break in New York working on an installation project.  Similar in concept to an earlier piece, A440, but should be very different and hopefully a tiny bit more interesting.  Thanks to Dustin and Shrage for helping out with the shooting… about 100 shots in two days.
The video below is not part of [...]

Forgot about a project for class and had about 2 hours to do something so I went minimal and used a really beautiful prelude from Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier.  I tried to reflect the overall dramatic structure instead of individual events (also took less time)… so enjoy the music and if the animation adds to [...]

had a mix assignment due today… i used those things (above)… it’s a pop song… you might disagree… busy… slept for 3 hours… smell interesting… listen… headphones… holes.
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Also, I realize that this here blurrg has veered a bit to the self indulgent side as I’ve become busy, but I’ll [...]

I’m starting to see two trends in my work… and they are differentiated by control. Control relating to audience, control of materials, medium, concept, ambiance, site, whatever. In most of my music and video work (until now and sometimes still now) I am a control freak. I want to guide the viewer [...]

I finished this piece last semester and have been reluctant to post it because it’s a 6 channel piece that really should be experienced in a surround sound setup… but I had to do a stereo mixdown to submit it to some festivals so I’ll put it up here too.  It is an Acousmatic piece.
Also, [...]

This is a really quick little jingle I did tonight for our first project for the class The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool. Made from sounds recorded during a little free improv sesh in class… trumpet, piano, guitar, flute, and drum sticks on bottle I believe were the sound sources.
I haven’t been doing a [...]

Audio Visual Etude # 2
I’m taking a class right now with Dennis Miller, a composer and animator who is a visiting professor at Brown this semester.   The class is called Sound and Image and the focus is on creating integrated audio-visual video pieces based on musical forms.  Here is a little experiment I did for [...]