current events
| · 05.25.08 - i've just finished coding a set of opcodes which help augment manipulation of SDIF data within Csound5. My opcodes are compiled in tandem with the Loris Reassigned Bandwidth-Enhanced Additive Sound Model C++ libraries. Both the source and precompiled binaries are availble for download here. [permalink] |
| · 04.12.08 - Matt Jenkins performed open end at the 17th annual The Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festival in Gainesville, Florida. [permalink] |
| · 12.27.07 - here are instructions for building the loris dynamic libs for csound5: |
| · 11.13.07 - my piece hub for flute, piano, percussion and electronics was released on Music from SEAMUS, volume 16. Its composition and recording were generously sponsored by SEAMUS and the University of California, San Diego. You can listen to the recording here or purchase the CD from SEAMUS. | 
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| · 08.10.07 - ATLAS in silico, an immersive stereoscopic installation premiered at SIGGRAPH 2007. Joachim Goßmann and I composed sound for the experience in Pure Data. The sound is modeled after users' movement and data from the Global Ocean Survey. Here is an stereo sample of the audio mixed down from 10.1. To the right is me interacting with one of 17.5 million GOS data records pulled real-time from a database. For more info see the project website. | 
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| · 05.30.07 - so i've been trying to get the loris modules in csound5 to build in OS X. i can compile csound5, but the loris opcodes fail and i don't have to prowess to figure things out (especially 'cause csound5 uses scons for compiling, which i know nothing about). to make things worse, csound4.23f12gbs seems to be broken: it dies with a ``tidy up'' error when trying to load a GEN01!! but, alas, i want loris -- not just at the command-line or via python, but within csound. finally got it to work: download csound 4.23f12's source code (DO NOT USE 4.23f12gbs -- this is whats posted on the sourceforge site and its broken, at least, for me anyway). i found it here under multiplatform source:http://music.nuim.ie/musictec/csound/. i don't care about X11 windowing capabilities and [read more] |
| · 05.16.07 - now that's a brew kettle! i've finished my 15 gallon electric kettle. it runs off of 240VAC -- i plug it into my oven receptical in my apartment. ian saxton and i built a computer to control the power of a 6000W water-heater element -- you input a target temperature and the computer varies the duty cycle based on a thermistor sensor. once the target is reached, the computer holds the temp until it receives further instructions. it works great -- i use it for heating mash/sparge water and for boiling 10 gallon batches. running of full blast, it boils up 13 gallons of wort in about 10 min. | 
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| · 04.26.07 - outo, the opcode for writing an 8-channel csound file is broken in version 4.23 -- it doesn't write anything to channel 7. i was able to find the error in the source and recomplie, but its probably easier to use ``outc'' and set your nchans to 8. am i the only one writing 8-channel pieces in version4? [permalink] |
| · 03.08.07 - ian saxton and i have been working on building an electric 15 US-gallon brew kettle. we've just begun programming the mircochip and got a breadboard prototype working -- well, at least, it toggles the SSR... | 
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| · 03.03.07 - the arditti string quartet chose to premiere a new work of mine - String Quartet no. 1 along with pieces by Lachenmann, Kurtag, Dusputin and Beethoven at an ArtPower concert in San Deigo, California. Here is a recording of the performance. |
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| · 02.18.07 - Percussionist Matt Jenkins performed open end for vibraphone and eight channel electronics at the UCSD composition juries on Februrary 18th, 2006. In additional to normal spatial electronics, the piece uses small speakers mounted underneath the bars of the vibraphone to create beating between the acoustic and electronic signals. Here is a recording from the performance. [permalink] |
Upcoming Peformances
· Joachim Goßmann and I will be designing audio for a virtural reallity installation by Ruth West presented at SIGGRAPH in August.· On tour with the The GO Duo March 24th-31st.
· The Arditti String Quartet will premiere string quartet no. 1 for amplified string quartet during their residency at UCSD in March of 2007.
· Percussionist Matt Jenkins will perform open end for vibraphone and eight channel electronics at the UCSD composition juries on Februrary 18th, 2006.