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Lua~

Lua~ is a Max/MSP external embedding an extension to the Lua programming language for computer music composition (the Vessel library), supporting sample accurate interleaving of synthesis and functional control.

Description, tutorial, reference & download here.

Synecdoche

Synecdoche is a blending of sonic archtecture and spatial music, in which elements in the visual domain are informed by techniques of composition in the acoustic domain, and vice versa. Membranes of multiple individual sound and image transformations, sharing uncertain textures in unstable assemblages, smoothly and dynamically shift between organic and crystalline forms.

Description, screenshots and video clip here.

Ambisonic externals for Max/MSP

Max/MSP externals for Ambisonic encoding, rotating and decoding up to 3rd order for two or three dimensional speaker arrays.

Description, screenshot and downloads here.

GLV pre-alpha

GLV is an OpenGL based GUI library, currently in development for OSX and Win32. It is based upon previous personal projects of MAT students Eric Newman, Lance Putnam and Graham Wakefield. The ideal is to create a reasonably efficient and portable library that makes it simple for the end-user developer to create an application's graphical user interface entirely using GPU based OpenGL instructions, thus freeing CPU resources for other work (e.g. audio DSP).

Detailed project description here.

Presentation of MAT installations

Myself and fellow MAT students Lance Putnam, Eric Newman, Dan Overholt and Ji Haru presented some of our digital audio/visual works to campus visitors.

Photos here.

Transvergent projects

Several generative and interactive audio-visual projects for Marcos Novak's Transvergence course at MAT, UCSB, September-December 2005.

Details, screenshots and MPEG4 movies here.

Sound design & programming for SeoNang, an international telematic art installation

SeoNang is an international telematic project between Seattle (USA) and Seoul (Korea). Four media artsits worked collaboratively to create SeoNang as a shared interactive environment linking two physical spaces in real-time.

More info here (external link).

Granulator application for digital audio programming course

An audio file granulator application with real-time controls and graphical grain-score representation, developed for the UCSB MAT 240 Digital Audio Programming course.

More info here.

Takeaway

4-channel audio with visual projection, duration: 7'05", May 2004 / October 2005.

Presented at the WAVE*PULSE CREATE concert, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, University of California Santa Barbara on November 10, 2005.

Details and MPEG4 excerpt here.

Media Interface Technology Project

A musical sensor interface and installation using the CREATE USB microcontroller: hybrid network of tangled audio technology, based around a turntable deck.
Wesley Smith & Graham Wakefield.

More info here.

CREATE Electroacoustic Ensemble generative installation for Welcome To The Future event

3 June 2005
Florian Hollerweger, Dan Overholt, Lance Putnam, Graham Wakefield.

Welcome To The Future media art exhibition and concert featuring works by carbon based life-forms from the College of Creative Studies and Media Art and Technology. Photos here.

CREATE Electroacoustic Ensemble improvisation for Primavera concert

13 May 2005
Florian Hollerweger, Dan Overholt, Lance Putnam, Graham Wakefield.

Photos here.

CREATE Electroacoustic Ensemble improvisation on KCSB 91.9FM

27 April 2005
Florian Hollerweger, Dan Overholt, Lance Putnam, Graham Wakefield.

MP3's and photos here.

CREATE Electroacoustic Ensemble improvisation for Radio Helsinki

17 April 2005
Florian Hollerweger, Dan Overholt, Lance Putnam, Graham Wakefield.

Photos here.

t0 Coincident

A generative audiovisual project realised for Marcos Novak's Transvergence course in early 2005, subtitled 'Virtual Environments as Spatial Music', along with thoughts, ideas and lateral paths of investigation. Essay, screenshots, movies and MP3's here. It forms part of the BitSignalFabric multiverse project, described here.

Time-Variant Audiovisual Canvasses

A body of personal research work throughout 2004 investigating various approaches to model design in audiovisual art which resulted in a set of working interactive studies. Essay, screenshots, movies, MP3's and downloads here.

Cafiaspirina

A mobile electroacoustic composition working with engaging regions between complexity and indeterminacy. The composition was premiered at the Goldsmiths College Electronic Music Studios Spring concert in March, 2003, and performed at the CREATE 'Newborn Creations' concert at UCSB in February 2005. Essay, screenshot and MP3 here.

Camino Outset

An extended plunderphonic composition using as source material Steve Reich's Come Out (1967), and Jean-Claude Risset's Mutations I (1969). The intention was to pay tribute to these works by treating them in kind with the ideas that had originally inspired and produced them. The composition was premiered at the Goldsmiths College Electronic Music Studios autumn concert on October 20, 2004. Essay, sonogram and MP3 here.

Green Tara

An extended electroacoustic composition as an exploration of resonance and mantra, based upon an homage to the Buddhist deity Green Tara. It is hoped that this composition will be performed in Chile this Autumn with Chilean Baritone Nicolas Oyarzun. Awarded 2nd prize in the Sherrill C. Corwin-Metropolitan Theatres Awards for Excellence in Composition fro Electro-Acoustical work, 2004-2005. Essay, sonogram and MP3 here.

OSCORE

OSCORE is a Java application (alpha stage) intended to provide a visual interface for scheduling OSC messages, to be used for example as a graphical score-controller for OSC-enabled applications such as SuperCollider, Max/MSP, Pd, Csound, etc. Project description, screenshots and source here.

Proposed Digital Art Installation: REBIRTH

REBIRTH is an interactive digital art installation. At its center is a virtual reality space that can be transformed from darkness into an audiovisual map of real space, according to tactile information amassed by the visitor. The initial state of information-blindness instills apprehension, but also the need to explore & understand. The meaning and shape that your environment takes on is based on the interactions you make with it. December 2004. Proposal website here.

Multi-Resolution transformations

A practical investigation into techniques to analyze, transform and resynthesize audio signals through the use of multi-resolution analysis to individually process separate time/frequency arrays. The MXJ Java API for Max/MSP, the Java Swing API, and the Steinberg VST plugin C++ API and the PortAudio C++ API have been used in the development projects. Project description, screenshots, software and source here.

Piece for Voices & Hands

Aural score for two groups of interpreters, instructed to perform with eyes closed, via distinct commands over headphones. Interpreters should have no prior acquaintance with the score.

Last performed in Cachagua, Chile, January 2005. Essay and MP3 here.

EuroStreaker 2004

Online game programming in Flash MX, while working for Stafford Long / HRLab. Barely a sporting tournament goes by these days without someone deciding to entertain the crowd with a naked display of exhibitionism. In celebration of this great tradition: Europe's first ever online streaking tournament. Click here to play.

Fast + Furious

Online game programming for 1-2 players in Flash MX, based on a popular 70's racing toy. Click here to play.

Goldsmiths College Installation Day

Installations, performances, compositions and projections from the people of the Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 04 June 04. Flyers & photos here.

Interlace concert improvisation with Ian Stonehouse

Improvised performance (laptop: Max/MSP & Flash) with Ian Stonehouse (electric guitar) at the Interlace event of June 26, 2004; Great Hall, Goldsmith's College, London.

Flyers & mp3 excerpt here.

Squares for Round Holes

A composition based around a phase vocoder with feedback and non-linear indexing to achieve folding and mirroring of time structures. Details, sonogram and MP3 here.

Nervoheal

Entry to the .microsound 'klanghausen' project, partly inspired by Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kontakte. Taking an impulse file as only source material and using time-domain processing (delay, granulation, pulsar enveloping, and reverberation) in a modulable feedback loop. Details, sonogram and MP3 here.

Ping One Down: Music Video for Gomez

Music video for Gomez single 'Ping One Down', seen on MTV, VH-1 and UK-Play. Rotoscoping based upon digital video taken by the band. Drawn scenes based upon locations in France and Chile, animated using Flash. Graham Wakefield & Francisca Lizana, 27-04-02. Screenshots here.

Mambotaxi / STENDEC

Post-rock/jazz/electronic group formed in Chile, 1998, with several releases, many live and improvised performances, and film soundtracks. Photos, biography and MP3's here.

Somethingsomewhere

An e-card email message system, allowing a user to communicate to an acquaintance a personalised message consisting only of location and movement. Commissioned for Francisca Lizana's net.art project site-specific (1999). Click here to send somethingsomewhere to someone you know...

Landscapes

Audio-visual navigation prototype as a net.art collaboration with Francisca Lizana. Flash project here.

Ese Olor

Soundtrack for the short film 'Ese Olor' directed by Manuela Heiman. Soundtrack by Mambotaxi (Graham Wakefield, Philipe Boisier, Memo Dumay), 1996. Screen captures and MP3 excerpts here.

El Fetiche

Soundtrack and Foley for 16mm short film by Martin Westcott. (1997). Screen captures here.

What Does Your Soul Look Like

Soundtrack for a video short written by Poonam Brah. Shortlisted in the British Short Film Festival 1996. Screen captures and MP3 excerpt here.