I’ve been an active developer on the open source project Roundware for the past few months, and it’s been very exciting. I’ve gotten the opportunity to pitch in a project used in Sound Artist Halsey Burgund‘s last few installations, as well as develop a location-based media platform geared towards ART instead of broadcast. From the …
Scott Kim’s talk on Ted.com is inspiring on a number of levels. The explanation of playing with the puzzle-doer’s perception through the design of his first puzzle, then his visual designs (ambigrams) through to his current work in social media got me thinking. I wish he would’ve spent more time discussing his feeling about the …
I began writing pieces in a language called Csound when I was at UW in the mid 90s. Working on SGIs, we wrote programs in LISP to generate these huge lists of notes; lists to be interpreted by instruments written in Csound. This conveyer belt way of making music felt weird and wack at first, …