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 will premiere sometime in late winter/spring 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!
• Discussions with composer Javier Alvarez and percussionist Gustavo Aguilar to assemble a laptop-only version of Alvarez's Shekere for shekere and electronics. My first encounter with Alvarez's music was his Temazcal for maracas and tape, and Shekere is equally exciting. Right now, though, it's set up for an outboard hardware sampler receiving input from a separate voltage-to-MIDI-velocity converter; a laptop-friendly version would help this great piece garner a wider audience.
(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...)