Projects
Witnesses is an installation where circuit-bent Buddhist chant-boxes create a dense sound composition in response to television images.
2011
Radio Silence explores the silent moments of talk-radio, combining eight AM broadcasts into an expanded conversation based on the “negative spaces” between words.
2010
Video Silence harvests an ongoing compilation of silent moments from broadcast television.
2009
Appropriate Response is a generative audio installation that creates a dynamic conversation between three television sets. Using sound clips harvested from local broadcasts, the televisions act as individuals engaged in an ongoing topical debate.
2008 (with N.B. Aldrich)
Enchanted is a series of Buddhist chant-boxes that have been circuit-bent to enable radical alteration of pitch.
2008-2009
A video where the camera weaves a trail around the body of an alchemist, follows the contours of cryptic diagrams, and traces the ripples of enchanted liquids.
2008
The Aural Ecosystem applies the generative structures of nature to audio synthesis, creating an ‘ecosystem’ that develops over time.
2007 (with N.B. Aldrich)
The Past is a Ghost is an interactive video installation where a viewer’s live video image is joined by glimpses of previous passers-by, creating a compressed virtual history.
2006-2007 (with N.B. Aldrich)
The Sentiment Machine is a self-regulating sound installation that remixes broadcast television’s staple products, producing an automatic “conversation” with consistent topical continuity.
2007 (with N.B. Aldrich)
The Observational Soundscape is a series of installations that create spontaneous accompaniments for public places, reflecting the visual and aural phenomena observed in the area.
2005-2007 (with N.B. Aldrich)
Parallel Rhetoric: Coming and Going is an installation that seamlessly combines the Inaugural and Farewell speeches of former U.S. Presidents.
2007
Interactive Soundscape Designer was developed by N.B. Aldrich and myself as a computer interface for the Interactive Soundscapes project.
2005-2007 (with N.B. Aldrich)
City Salvage was a collaborative film/sound performance at Monkytown, a 4-wall projection venue in Brooklyn, NY.
2006 (with Bosko Blagojevic, Lynne Sachs and Mark Street)
The Shape of Memory explores the patterns of recollection. Super8 home movie frames are removed from their original timeline and re-ordered according to visual rules.
2006 (with N.B. Aldrich)
Parallel Rhetoric: 2001 + 2005 seamlessly combines George Bush’s 2001 and 2005 Inauguration addresses into one composite speech.
2005
Movement Reflection is a single channel, stereo audio/video presentation which results from a process of recycling and abstraction.
2005 (with MAP Intermedia: N.B. Aldrich & Brendan McCall)
5 local news shows (recorded on the same night in 5 cities) are mixed simultaneously without edits. The standardized structure of info-tainment shines through as the local details are obscured.
2004 (with N.B. Aldrich)
Explosions & Reactions compresses the wide-screen spectacle of action-movie violence into small weightless frames.
2003
Interference Patterns is an installation that explores interference phenomena on the surface of water.
2002
In Search Signals, footsteps are heard pacing within four beams of focused sound, while the whole area is permeated by a mechanized chord of Morse-Code messages.
2002
16mm film: A bright frozen world accompanied by shortwave telemetry, and a parallel world hidden in darkness.
2001
16mm Film: Interrupting a backdrop of glowing fluorescent tubes and field-recordings, a synthesized voice commands the film to “stop” …
2001