Sonic Art

Kepler Concordia Residency (October 2019)

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After attending the International Conference for Auditory Display (ICAD) this year, I was invited to participate in a residency along with a dozen other artists in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Below to the left is first blog post I wrote during the residency, describing my artistic process, goals, problems, and adventures. Below to the right is a sample recording of some of the sounds I was playing with before actually making a sonification.

The Sound of a SpacecraftWe’re on a mission — to sonify the universe. It’s a daunting task, but the Kepler Concordia Residency has set aside a few months to get…

Below are two other blog posts that I made while at the residency. Below to the right is further explanation on Kepler Concordia and to the left is more in depth on programming MIDI in Processing for the Mother-32.

Kepler Concordia: A First LookEverything’s connected. That’s how I would describe both this project and the subject matter this project deals with. I’m living in…

Programming MIDI for the Moog-Mother-32For my residency at Kepler Concordia in Portland, Oregon, one of the personal objectives I have (maybe even a life objective) is to make…

Below to the left is a 360 Video recording that I took using my Ricoh Theta V and Zoom H2N recorder. I wrote a virtual 'guitar pedal' that sonified the position and relative position of Earth and Jupiter as they circled around the sun (Kat in this case). You can only hear the planets through echo/delay. The planets are also panned in a quadraphonic array according to their angle from the sun. To the right is a photo of the studio we worked in, and a picture of the setup I ended up with for the MIDI programming. I used similar planetary data to control pitch bending and tempo on the Moog.

Data Sonification Setup: Moog Mother 32, Meris Enzo, SenselData Sonification Setup: Moog Mother 32, Meris Enzo, Sensel

And finally, some inspirational post-it notes!

Sonification as Activism: A Spatial Sonification of School Shootings Since Columbine (2019)

An ambisonic rendering of school shooting data as gunshot samples. Accepted to the International Conference of Auditory Display in 2019.

Spatial Improvisations #1 and #2

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These are my first demos of experimenting with encoding a mono synth track into a VR Audio Youtube Video.

Sonification of Soil Type in Wake County, NC (2019)

For some browsers, you may need to open this link in a new tab to hear the sounds. Mapped particle size of soil to grain size in granular synthesis. Data pulled from Open Data Raleigh / ArcGIS via json. Hover the mouse over a shape to hear it.