Archive for November 2010
Virtual Matrix Mixer (yes, in SuperCollider)
Kane and I recently dropped $170 at JameCo on potentiometers, switches, diodes, project boards, and more in anticipation of several MuCo projects we have been planning. The main project now after some op-amp FAIL last night (the FAIL being Mimms’s op-amp. Yes, there is a free version on the nets. No, we will not help…
Read Moreseventeen:thirteen
seventeen:thirteen is my doctoral dissertation from the Eastman School of Music. It is a composition for fifteen players to be performed outdoors in an urban environment for 30 minutes each day for 3 days. It employs coordinated movement and sound with audio and video recording, playback, and projection. The work employs different compositional styles for…
Read MoreScott gets a Marxophone
Marxist-phone-what? Heather’s parents got me a gen-u-ayn Marxophone (a fretless zither!) for my birthday. (Thanks Jim and Karen!) Imagine my surprise when they showed up with several boxes of fantastic electronic toys to dissect, the culmination of which was this fantastic instrument. (I might add, I had never heard of nor seen one of these…
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