Searching… seeks to highlight the growing disparity between signal and noise in the digital age and how this disparity has placed a necessary emphasis on searching for the information that we need in the oversaturated digital sphere. In response to the ever increasing amount of […]
Jacob Goldman – it’s more how I expected it to be than I expected that it would be
Participants were asked to try to describe the sound of their own voices as they speak, so that what’s describing is what’s being described and vice versa. In addition to being recorded with a microphone, these descriptions were transcribed using Google’s voice-to-text API. Each participant […]
Cordey Lopez – Sitting Outside the Pavilion with the Elitist J. Vagushin
A wireless microphone attached to a blade on a rotating fan generates a feedback tone and a flash of light each time the microphone passes a speaker. Custom electronics alter the speed of the fan at irregular intervals. Ceiling fan, wireless microphone and receiver, speaker, […]
Danny Clarke & Eric Heep – Crystal Growth
When James Tenney developed his idea of modeling pitch material generation on crystal growth, he noted that, given certain simple settings, his algorithm would generate pitches in a way that mirrored the development of pitch materials over the course of Western musical history. This installation […]
Tim Tsang – Feedback Loop of the Long Clock of the Hear and Now (John’s Cage 112.0)
by Tim Tsang [39-42, 45-52] 39) I guess numbers help me to feel accomplished, productive, useful, happy. 41) Music (this term probably won’t be going away any ”time” soon) is/was never about music, but rather points toward the propositions that the music points toward. A […]
Sound as Object Class
The Fall 2014 Sound as Object Integrated Media class presents their end-of-semester installation.The sound installation explores spatial transitions by amplifying and re-amplifying recorded sounds from four unique environments. The hanging cardboard boxes function both as formal representations of space and resonant chambers. This piece is […]
Marc Nimoy – Windowchimes (2007, revised)
Windowchimes is a previously unseen piece from a series of works exploring the Max/MSP audio programming language itself as the medium. These works are typically non-musical and use elements directly from the programming language as visual components to display geometric patterns, visual animations, and even […]
Stephanie Smith – Small Talk
“Little Shits” performing Small Talk. Each hanging device constantly decides between three things: to sustain, to be silent, or to join the pattern. The end result is a continuously transforming conversation. Please enjoy during the day and night. Materials: Bells, vibration motors, nuts, electrical tape, […]
Scott Cazan – Successors
Successors uses four independent systems listening to each other (and the room) to produce a single pitch or rhythmic impulse in response. An exploration of evolution and the number 2 with each combination of two pitches folding into a single complex tone or unfolding into 3 […]
Mark Trayle – Zephyrs
Zephyrs plays with both material and acoustic phenomena. In the 17th century the English physicist Robert Hooke discovered that particles on a vibrating surface will form nodal patterns related to the frequency of sound propagating through that surface. Similarly, closely tuned high frequency sound waves […]
Liew Niyomkarn – Swing
Swing is a sound ensemble sculpture that considers the relationship between momentum and the physicality of sound. Each sculpture has a different sound. Sounds are created from metal, bearings, almonds, tiny scrap metals, marbles, coins, red beans and rice. There is a particular object in each […]
Cooper Baker – Noctiluca Scintillans
Hanging acrylic tubes containing bead-chain generate acoustic impulses that trigger and control the synthetic sounds present in this piece. Each tube has a contact microphone embedded in its cap, and when a tube is tapped or shaken the vibrations are transmitted to a computer running […]