For heart-rate monitor, two Nintendo Wiimotes, & two dual-axis accelerometers (2011)
Running Expressions is a real-time performance composition written primarily in Kyma and Max/MSP. By capturing live physiological data, music is created and controlled within an 8-channel and video projection environment. The musical performance narrates a distance run, the psychological and emotional impacts of a running experience.
+ Download Documentation .pdf and the performance software (Max/MSP/Jitter, OSCulator, and Processing) files. (.zip, 11.5 MB)
+ Download Kyma performance audio files. (.zip, 45.3 MB)
+ Download Thesis documentation separately. (.pdf, 11.2 MB)
Open-Source Interface using Max/MSP/Jitter, OpenNI framework, and the XBox Kinect (2011)
Interface for routing and displaying user-tracking data from the XBox Kinect via OSC messages. The interface handles fifteen /joint messages for up to four users with a real time configuration of internal and external routing options. Includes installation and guide manual, as well as all Max externals and credits.
+ Download the interface. (.zip, 6.8 MB)
Human Chimes is an interactive public installation commissioned by the University of Oregon and the city of Eugene, Oregon. The work transforms users into sounds that interact with all other participants inside the space. The installation was built in part with my Kinect-Via-OSCeleton interface.
for Wacom Tablet and KYMA (2010)
Humans fill uncomfortable moments between thoughts, not with spaces of silence, but instead with principally three noticeable sounds: “and”, “uh”, and “um”. “AUU” explores the spaces between our thoughts, as well as the use of the three common words that mask these silences.
All sounds were designed using KYMA, and mapped to the Wacom Tablet for performance. Originally performed and recorded for 8 channels, this mix was balanced for stereo. Please wear headphones to take advantage of the full audio spectrum.
+ Download the score.
Fixed media for 8-channels (2003)
The Sound Memorial for the Veterans of the Vietnam War is a six-hour long composition, a reading of the names of the service members who died during the Vietnam War. The Sound Memorial is a fixed media work performed as an eight-speaker installation and is composed from 210+ voices and over 200 hours of recording. The memorial resurrects the service member’s names by propagating them within a defined space, allowing the name to reverberate within a room and take on a whole new life. The first audio excerpt is "Height of the War;" the movement attempts to capture the magnitude of American service members killed in action over the course of several months in 1968. Following this movement is the rest of the piece, playing sequentially from the beginning.
+ Download the score.
Published work, a research paper, my Master's documentation, and an opinionated essay.
+ Mapping Solutions for Kinect's User Tracking via OSC
+ Running Expressions: Physiological Monitors and Motion Sensors Mapped for Musical Performance
Pdfs of concert programs and a repertory list of compositions & installations.
+ Concert program examples, including SEAMUS 2012, Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS) 2011, Future Music Oregon (FMO) concert 2011, and my Master's Terminal Creative Project recital 2011.
+ A repertory list of compositions and installations created over the past few years.