Pondlife II

Pondlife, an interactive audiovisual installation by me and Sam Salem , had a run at ICMC 2009 , hosted by the Mcgill music department and CIRMMT in Montreal, Quebec.

The installation uses a projector to draw small, simulated microbes on the surface of water in a large plexiglass tank. A camera underneath the tank and submerged hydrophones allow the user (and via video feedback, the system itself) to interact with a simulated fluid which is projected on top of the real one. The sounds are triggered by the simulated creatures and change as the creatures are disturbed, grow, die, breed, and mutate. The most simple creatures can feed off the ‘light’ represented by 6 colored squares for which the viewer can adjust hue and intensity. Creatures thrive in their own color of light.

A big thanks are due to everyone at Mcgill and CIRMMT, who gave us a wonderful space and helped make the installation a success, and especially to Composer and Master Crafstman David Adamcyk who orchestrated the construction of the tank and supports and helped in myriad other ways.

There are three videos on Vimeo:

Pondlife II – ICMC 2009 from Windfarm Music on Vimeo.

Site Update

I’ve made some minor updates to this page, filling out the past and current work and about sections. I am off to the IMA in Minnesota, and then to the ICMC in Montreal, so a more interesting post to come in a couple of weeks!

Pretty Picture

I submitted an image to the ‘Art of Science’ competion at school. Click the image to see the rest of the submissions; there are some fantastic microscopic and simulated images.

Blowup

The image was generated in Matlab, resulting from an unstable explicit curvature flow scheme. Compositing and some color balancing was done post, but otherwise the image is unedited.

First!

This will be my website until I require something more elaborate. It will document my musical and sound-related projects, and likely some other things.