Technology
I started out in college as an audio engineering major. Since then, I've mostly been recording classical music, working along the way as an engineer at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and KBAQ-FM (Phoenix, AZ). If you're in northeastern Ohio and would like to have your concert or recital professionally recorded, please drop me a line.
Current projects starring one and zero:
• Jonestown Triptych for snare drum, small idiophones, and Max/MSP. This is the result of a commission from University of Akron graduate student Scott Farkas, and was premiered in April 2010. Special thanks to Fielding McGehee at San Diego State University's Jonestown Institute for providing source audio, Dan Trueman of Princeton and R. Luke DuBois of Columbia for authoring the PeRColate library of Max/MSP externals, and Miller Puckette, Ted Apel, and Barry Threw for the bonk~ object. It's awesome! If you'd like the materials for performing the work, please contact me.
• Continued development of the WiiMote and Wii Balance Board as meaningful devices for musical expression through movement. Thanks to Dr. Ivica Ico Bukvic for writing the extended WiiMote Max object that makes all of this possible!
(By the way, the graphic at the top this page is a design sketch for a monophonic light-and-touch-controlled FM synthesizer using a CMOS hex Schmitt trigger inverter IC chip. It's still unbuilt, the parts are in a box somewhere, and I can't remember what gig I had on December 2 that year...)