Cycliptic: Junction in the Sky
Music release. Bass guitar, synths, production.
Output Creator
Music making application for beginners. Lead Software Engineer: UI stack
Born a Problem - Soundscape Design
Custom soundscape design for art installation.
Born a Problem - excerpt
Cycliptic: A Flower It Will Become
Music release. Bass guitar, synths, production.
Audio Developers Conference 2023 Talk
Conference talk from ADC 23 discusses software engineering techniques and architecture for building a web interface on a C++ audio application
ADC 2023 talk
Touch UI to Generative Music Sequencer in SuperCollider
Explorations integrating SuperCollider instruments into a Ableton Live set. A web-based touch-screen UI controls SuperCollider patches through a Node.js server (running inside an Electron app). Tempo clock is synced from SuperCollider to Ableton Live using Ableton Link.
Generative Sequencer Performance Touch UI Demo
Out of This World Advice
Work in progress interactive musical installation with an accompanying narrative and puzzle-like experience. Acrylic structure contains LEDs, amplified sound, and small computers.
Generative audio system built in SuperCollider. Central state store in Node.js with Redux. Node.js process also receives button signals from Arduino and animates LEDs.
Out of This World Advice Preview
LED Wall Prototype
A prototype of an interactive LED wall experience.
An LED wall allowing participants to paint gestures on a touchscreen.
Prototype Demo
Untitled
Interactive musical installation. Magnetic pucks are physically moved to interact with a musical sequencer. Musical events are visualized with projection.
Projections are generated with an Electron app with PixiJS to render animated sprites. Generative audio system built in SuperCollider. Central state store and coordinator in Node.js with Redux.
Transdimensional Audio Workstation
The Transdimensional Audio Workstation is an interactive musical experience. The machine allows one to tune into another dimension in order to send a musical communication to one’s self. After sending the music, any transdimensional response will be interpreted and played back automatically.
Transdimensional Audio Workstation demonstration (response removed for privacy reasons)
Bells Atlas Hyperlust Website
Website for Bells Atlas to release a single song from their EP, chosen at random to anyone who signed up. hyperlust.bellsatlas.com.
On algorithmic music and musical creation GUIs
I spoke about musical creation algorithms and interfaces at "Music + Tech" night hosted by the Institute for the Future. The talk was on two topics: algorithmic music and musical creation GUIs.
Soundscape for the Deep Forest Lounge
A soundscape for the "Deep Forest Lounge" space at Priceless festival in 2014.
"Deep Forest Lounge" soundscape
Sonarc
Musical arrangement experience in web browser. Circles represent sounds, sequences are chained together by arranging touching circles. All circles touching outer rim are triggered together.
Built with JavaScript using PixiJS to animate sprites and on top of a Meteor.js backend.
Sonarc UI Demo
Summer 2013 Set
This is a performance of the music I have been working on throughout the summer. I performed a very similar set in center camp at burning man this year. All of the sounds were created from scratch.
Colin's Summer 2013 Set
Sounds of the Subconscious Seas
A Soundscape for the "Seas of the Subconscious" experience that took place in the basement of the San Francisco Mint building for the 2013 "All Worlds Fair".
The soundscape is generative, so it can be infinitely long. Here is a sample:
Sounds of the subconscious seas.
Computer Music Experiments 2012
A collection of computer music pieces created in 2012 while studying at CCRMA.
Jnana (Generative Ableton Live Plugin)
"Jnana" is an algorithmic accompaniment system integrated into Ableton Live. It can analyze MIDI input and generate melodic and rhythmic material in a similar style.
Demo of Jnana v0.1
tulpasynth v0.2
"tulpasynth" is a prototype real-time collaborative music creation system that takes advantage of touchscreen gestures for a tangible, responsive UI.
tulpasynth screenshot
KnacK
"KnacK" is a music compositon framework for ChucK.
The basic idea of the framework is to provide some conventions for making compositional code modular and reusable. There are some other features that I am interested in developing further as well such as a MVC-like interaction between raw "aesthetic data" and the instruments/performers in a musical piece.
entities and relationships in the KnacK framework
Bingo!
Every New Year's Day, many of my family and friends gather to play bingo. In recent years there have been too many people in the house to hear what numbers have been called.
Algorithmic Composition with the Fibonacci Sequence
Algorithmic music composition with the Fibonnaci sequence
Algorithmic Composition
Concert
An online collaborative organizational tool for sounds. Student project.
Bass Distortion with ChucK
Designing an Overdrive/Distortion effect that is customized for the sound of my bass guitar.