Visual Music

9. Trebuchet

Trebuchet
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Another data transcoding experiment with composer Daniel Hindmarch.

format: realtime animation
software: Jitter, PD
Toronto, 2008.


8. Microclimate

Microclimate
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Here’s a data transcoding idea created with Christina McPhee.

format: realtime animation
software: Jitter
Amsterdam, 2007.


7. STEIM Experiments

  • Isadora Color Organ

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  • Isadora Live Camera Control

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  • Jitter Color Organ (music by Celeste Hutchins)

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  • PD Kaleidoscope

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These are realtime recordings, with me triggering events by tapping keys in time to the beat. They’re tests for some upcoming projects using OSC (Open Sound Control), a nifty protocol for getting many different kinds of realtime sound and video programs to talk to each other.

format: DV video
software: Isadora, Max/MSP/Jitter, PD
Amsterdam/The Hague, 2007.


6. Whirlitzer

Whirlitzer
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Here’s a collaboration with composer Meg Schedel, recorded at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique, a collection of early-20th-century mechanical musical instruments.

format: DV video
software: AfterEffects
San Francisco, 2006.


5. Coagulate

Coagulate
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This was created during the same Kitchen workshop that spawned The Little Bird of Disaster; the soundtrack was made with a 1960s analog computer and a brand-new upright piano.

format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Final Cut
The Hague, 2006.


4. The Volga Will Be Our Mississippi

The Volga Will Be Our Mississippi
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This is a demo for a new video installation I’m working on. It’s like an old puzzle in a kid’s magazine–can you find all the eagles?

format: realtime animation
software: Isadora, Live
The Hague, 2007.


3. Azharah

Azharah
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This lovely sand animation was created from Hebrew calligraphy by Gil Omry, as part of Lauren Hartman’s play Out of Me and Into You.

format: DV video
software: Director, AfterEffects, Final Cut
Los Angeles, 2003.


2. 350 Feet

350 Feet
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This little cartoon took ten years to finish. I drew it all out in pen and ink the winter of 1995, and didn’t get around to shooting it for exactly a decade. Here you go!

format: DV video
software: Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1995.


1. Glasfilm

Glasfilm
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Yeah, everybody who’s been to film school has got a scratch film, but I’m partial to this one.

format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Amsterdam, 1998.