Smartphone Sound Design

November 20th, 2017

In the Fall 2017 semester, I introduced my DIGA 365 students to Eurorack hardware synthesizers. As a way to explore these devices, I added a new project that required students to design sounds for a smart phone, including a ringtone, social media alert, and messaging. Most students found it fun to take control of these sounds […]

Processing Community Day 2017

October 21st, 2017

In October 2017, I attended the Processing Community Day held at the MIT Media Lab in Boston, Massachusetts. This gathering was the first of its kind, bringing together creative coders from across the country to share projects and experiences that use the popular programming language called Processing. I have used Processing both in my creative […]

64-bit VBAP

June 7th, 2017

As part of my work for the Jamoma team in early 2015, I completed a 64-bit Mac update of an external from 2006 for vector-based amplitude panning by Ville Pulkki. This enabled other members of the team to use models that were dependent on the external with newer versions of Cycling’74 Max. After seeing my […]

DIGAhertz

June 1st, 2017

This year, the second semester of my Computer Music sequence (DIGA 462) was structured more as a peer working group. Students were responsible for developing two large-scale projects that fell within several pre-defined categories, and bringing their work-in-progress to class each week for comment and critiques. I worked on projects too and brought them in […]