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Big Games in Central Park

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Spent the day running around Central Park with Daniel, Ilan, Kyveli and Bob, scouting locations and figuring out details for our Big Games project. The concept is [...]

Posted 30 September 2007 § Big Games § Fall2007 ‡ Comments (0) °

Hula Hoops have never been cooler

Went down to The Storefront for Art and Architecture’s A-Z event yesterday (housed in a specially-built pavilion designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho), and was absolutely blown away. It’s not so often that one sees something like this rising from the NYC streetscape:

Posted 27 September 2007 § Fall2007 § Metaforms ‡ Comments (0) °

Golan Levin + Fugazi + Primus = ?

We’ve been asked to post videos about our musical aspirations — what we’d like embody or emulate when perform. In my case, I’ve been thinking about what happens when you combine the innovation of modern electronic artists like Golan Levin, the energy of rock acts and the grace of more symphonic groups like A [...]

Posted 26 September 2007 § Metaforms § NIME ‡ Comments (0) °

Data logger works!

Tom Jenkins and I spent some time this past week figuring out our plans to get our data logger concept off the ground, and so far, we’ve got the basics working.  We’ve got an Arduino Mini reading values from a photocell and sending that through a Blue SMiRF Bluetooth module to a Nokia N80 phone [...]

Posted 24 September 2007 § Fall2007 § Rest of You ‡ Comments (0) °

Scaffolding as a city

Eugene, Rory and I spent a good deal of time this past week looking deeper into the history, traditional uses, and additional meanings of scaffolding. Most of the research we did is visible on our shared wiki, but I figured I’d post a few more things here.

Posted 23 September 2007 § Fall2007 § Metaforms ‡ Comments (0) °

Scaffolding as a sound generator

One of my biggest fascinations over the past year or so has been the sounds of cities — how they sound in certain neighborhoods at night, what the unique textures are, what makes natives feel at home and what disorients visitors. Specifically, I’ve been interested in generating songs from street noise, kinda the opposite [...]

Posted 23 September 2007 § Fall2007 § Metaforms ‡ Comments (0) °

Music in a minute

We’re to bring in a short audio clip of music we want to make, which can be something we’ve made, but should look to outside influences. I found this to be kinda impossible, as I’m one of those folks whose influences run all over the place, but I’ve tried to keep this short.
I’m interested, [...]

Posted 19 September 2007 § Fall2007 § NIME ‡ Comments (0) °

Conflux in the NY Times!

…with a bit of a nod to Mouna, RSG and yours truly, amongst others. I’m highly flattered, and a bit confused, but really glad the festival’s getting the attention it deserves. It was an amazing time — by far the best festival I’ve been involved in, and likely the best I’ve even been [...]

Posted 19 September 2007 § Fall2007 § ITP Projects § Tech and Culture § Urban Computing ‡ Comments (1) °

Yep, school’s back in swing


Posted 19 September 2007 § Asides ‡ Comments (0) °

Personal Statement, Jersey-styles

Had to write a personal statement for Show & Tell II, revealing myself from an angle.  Figured I might as well reveal that here too:
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The Meadowlands is a really ugly place. I don’t mean the nice marshlands that serve as a sanctuary for scores of species of migratory birds, but rather the monstrous stadium [...]

Posted 19 September 2007 § Fall2007 § Show & Tell II ‡ Comments (0) °