This work is inspired by the author and environmental philosopher Timothy Morton and their deconstructive approach to examining ecology. The audio and video were created through abstract generative techniques, including farming audio machine models with biblical quotes to extract bizarre singing samples, coding arythmic drum samples in SuperCollider, deconstructing open-source video game objects in TouchDesigner, and then datamoshing everything together using video codecs dating back to 2002. The piece takes its name from one of Morton's quotes on beauty and deals with the panoramic and kaleidoscopic approach Morton takes when analyzing general aesthetics. 

A sound design sample project utilizing sound editing practice, field recording, ADR, and Foley. This project was recorded at the Media Labs at Towson University, Maryland. There is no affiliation with the Ringling School of Art and Design. 

This project won Best Sound For Picture at the NYU Music Technology Open House Recording Competition in 2019.

For our AV1 project, we reimplemented the sound for a scene from Wes Anderson's 2009 stop-motion animated film "Fantastic Mr. Fox". In this comedic clip, Mr. Fox and his friend Riley the opossum break into a local farm to steal chickens and narrowly escape. The sound for this video is a combination of automated dialogue replacement (ADR), Foley, ambience, and hard effects. The background music was selected as an alternative to the original film's score. The character voices were provided by Paul Deshler and Spencer Shafter.

"It’s a Trio" was written for three electronic instruments and is inspired by music from the dawn of the synthesizer. "It's a Trio" is a serial composition in two sections. Section one features a “moving” sixteenth note figure that is juxtaposed against triplets; the sixteenth note figure sounds like it is moving from instrument to instrument. Section two features intact and broken quintuplet figures that are juxtaposed against figures of three and six.

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