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Ethel
When I started my graduate studies at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 I built the first version of my video sampler. This was something I’d been dreaming about for years, and at the time it was a...
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Funk Improvisation For One Performer and Archival Dancers
My first piece that linked musical gesture to video processing. Programmed in Max/MSP/Jitter, this piece is conceived as a dialogue between myself as musical performer and the dancing figures...
View ArticleDuet For Alto & Tenor Televisions
Duet for Alto and Tenor Televisions is a performance piece using an electronic video/music instrument of my own design. In the improvised performance, tiny snippets of historical found footage are...
View ArticleTV – It Gets the Job Done Right
In this installation live broadcast TV programs on 11 televisions are continuously remixed into a rhythmic, stroboscopic composition. It functions automatically, cycling among preprogrammed patterns,...
View ArticleBroadcast 25 Patch
Inspired by traditional quilt patterns and the impending end of analog broadcast TV, this generative piece is based on a software algorithm that autonomously remixes the live TV video stream in real...
View ArticleSecurity Blanket
Security Blanket is a “video quilt” whose dynamically-generated pattern is formed out of hijacked surveillance camera feeds. The project juxtaposes references to the American quilting tradition,...
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Periscope
A collaboration with Deborah Aschheim and Daragh Byrne Commissioned by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. for the Amazon.com building at 207 Boren Avenue North in Seattle, as part of the revitalization campaign...
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Fermentophone Wisconsin
Fermentophone on Main Street in Reedsburg, WI Farm/Art DTour Fermentation Fest: A Live Culture Convergence Still working on the documentary sounds & video!
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Fermentophone is a multi-sensory installation in which an algorithmically generated musical composition is performed by living cultures of bacteria and yeast. The installation comprises a series of...
View ArticleChoose Your Own Adventure Silent Movie Soundtrack Game
In this game, the ensemble improvises a soundtrack to accompany classic silent movie clips. Periodically, the action forks and two choices are presented onscreen. The audience calls out their vote and...
View ArticleAudience Voting Game
In this game, a word or phrase is shown onscreen as a prompt for the improvising band. While the musicians are performing a spontaneous interpretation of the prompt, the audience is voting on the next...
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Fermentophone Harvard
Fermentophone was presented at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in the Microbial Life gallery in February 2020. Fermentophone This exhibit displays a musical instrument known as “Fermentophone.”...
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