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After | Apple Box - Dr. Margaret Schedel
After | Apple Box is a work composed by my friend and former professor, Dr. Margaret Schedel, and was written in memory of her father. The piece repurposes old ammunition crates that belonged to her father and uses them as a performance interface for the work dedicated to him. As the title suggests, After | Apple Box draws inspiration from Pauline Oliveros's Apple Box Orchestra, and encourages performers to think of a passed loved one and record sounds that are meaningful to that relationship. The piece is then performed by triggering and manipulating these sounds with the ammunition crate.
In this collaboration, I designed a custom filtered piezo circuit attached to the ammunition boxes, as well as a Max/MSP patch to process the box's resonances. This resonance data is then sent to a machine learning model made in Wekinator that calculates the position where the box was tapped, allowing the boxes to be used as an expressive performance interface.
Cyclops puppet test, at La Mama in Manhattan.
Are they edible? - Jeanette oi-suk yew
Are They Edible is one of the fantastic puppetry projects by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew. The multi-sensory work was an interpretation of Homer's Odyssey enacted by puppets, in which the audience was guided through the narrative and encouraged to dine upon edible pieces of the stage to engage them in a tactile interaction with the story's morals.
In this project I designed a light puppet representing the Cyclops of Homer's narrative. The puppet used finger/hand movements, read by a LEAP Motion camera interface, to control fading lights that were controlled by a Max/MSP patch mapping the LEAP data to a DMX lighting protocol that controlled each bulb's brightness.
sea porch - aren skalman
Sea Porch is a project Aren Skalman created for his Masters exhibition at San Diego State University. Aren creates multi-sensory work combining sculpture and sound. This piece consisted of two sculptures--one placed in the gallery and the other in the entry way--with microphones and speakers embedded within. The sound design captured local sounds from around each sculpture, vocoded them, and transmitted them to the other installation, creating a subtle dialog between the two works and between audience members in different physical spaces.
In this project I created the sound design and overall composition of the samples. I also created the Max/MSP patch that controlled the vocoder and open-sound-control transmission between the two sculptures.
