On Friday 27 February I will be the guest artist and composer at the NMSU Contemporary Arts Festival
More Like This examines the interactions that occur within a metricated musical environment. There are four primary performers: each of the two saxophonists, a live artificial intelligence system (AI), and the audience. Each contributes to the work in one or …
My work Not Pitch for baritone saxophone and computer-generated sounds has been recorded and released on CD by Rhonda Taylor.
On April 26, my interactive robotic painting machine will make its public debut at the Krannert Center. The result of over a year’s worth of work, the machine uses artificial intelligence to paint its own body of work and to make its own decisions. It also listens to its environment and considers what it hears as input into the painting process.
Do we really need to hear more fake clarinets or to see more computer-drawn portraits? What about something new?
While cut and paste is a technique I’ve used in many of my computer music works (as well as recent video works such as ORDER OF MAGNITUDE), a few are distinguished by their sole reliance on this technique. In these …
Genetic Algorithms in Composition and Sound Synthesis, otherwise known as GACSS (pronounced “gax”), was an original sound synthesis program I wrote and used between 1992-1998. GACSS allows the composer to graphically visualize and imagine new sounds at the waveform period …
As a jazz- and classically-trained trumpet player turned composer, I sought to develop extended trumpet techniques I could use in my improvisations and compositions. A primary focus in this area was my cultivation of an extreme low register with continuous …