Audio.
Using sounds sampled from multiple locations within a city, an audio landscape is created. Emphasizing specific frequencies in the sounds links them together and provides a narrative which reflects the variety encountered in a journey through the urban environment.

Object.
These sounds are used to affect a multitude of similar objects. Using a custom built speaker to interface with a series of spheres, Reverberation creates hundered of interactions between individual elements and the soundscape of the city. The patterns that can be seen emerging are an emergent result of the system set up and the audio generated by the spheres in motion adds a layer to the city experience as humans do to their habitat.

Installation.
The proposed expansion of Reverberation involves multiple speakers arranged to reflect the topography of a given city, pulling in live audio from the locations they represent.

Allowing the viewer to walk around the pieces will provide a multi dimensional audio experience, shifting and changing based on position. The addition of further objects should create an overwhelming piece of sound, approaching white noise. The changes this would undergo over time with variations in the soundscapes of different parts of the city would produce a sense of time, scale and location within a limited area.

Written Images.
AQT_16 is included in the book 'Written Images', a generative art book by Martin Fuchs and Peter Bichsel

Rapidly brought into existence in response to a call for entries, the piece grabs a 15 second sample from an audio stream to draw a series of towers which are scaled and coloured according to pitch and volume. There is an interesting anomaly, never tracked down, which occasionally throws out a bright blue tower.

Cascade 2010
As part of the 2010 Cascade workshop we were asked to consider the ideas and ideals of Utopia. Placed in groups of graduates with diverse backgrounds we had 5 days to find a model of working and develop an idea to help us explore this.

Utopia
The initial problem was coming to some form of consensus over what constituted Utopia, as well as a diversity in creative backgrounds there was the disparity in ideals to overcome or deal with. We progressed by making a series of presentations about different ideas and possibilities we saw within the theme, gradually coming closer to some form
of agreement.

A space
We headed towards the creation of a free space for exploration, thought and collaboration. A space that could exist outside of other structures, self contained and powered by those who use it.

The Anti-Doom-Dome
A grand utopian vision, a high point to aim for, the anti-doom-dome would be a space in which people could share their ideals and thoughts, in which they could create and participate in multiple utopias. The dome would be powered by multiple bikes around its outside, those providing power would have to selflessly ride, so that those inside could partake in the experience, with the hope that this would provoke thoughtfulness and consideration on the way to utopia.

Site/Design: Inventive & Co.

Audio Reactive
As the presentation of research into interactive and reactive installations this slideshow features a blob, behind the text and images ( converted to line-art ) of the slides, which reacts to the presenter's voice. This uses Processing, one of the technologies spoken about in the presentation, and further illustrates some of the principles discussed.

Noise Music
A noise instrument inside a large found pink suitcase, with a camera in the base reading the light values of the pavement beneath it and an accelerometer (via wiimote) inside, the device outputs white noise and sine waves based on its surroundings, modulated by the motion of the carrier.

Collaboration
As part of a two day workshop presided over by Kitchen Budapest in Hungary we were presented with a brief history of Noise Music before an individual brainstorming session. Following this, we merged ideas and formed groups to begin production.

Performance
The project was intended to conclude with a performance, and the perfect setting - an underground station with a striped floor, perfect for playing like a musical score - was found. Unfortunately, after a brief play we were asked to leave, reconvening in the open air with the other workshop participants ( complete with infra-red squeeze boxes, musical books and rubber band / salad spinner devices ) for a final noisy performance.

Created with MAX/MSP & a variety of found bits of technology. In collaboration with Jason Drew, Jordan Poulet-Hector and Eva Verhoeven.

Installation.
A single cell appears on the screen, spawned randomly. It is used to the conditions of its birth, the ambient volume and temperature and will react accordingly, dividing to reproduce it passes aspects of its makeup to its offspring whose character is modulated by the changing environment the installation is situated in.

The visitor is offered the opportunity to affect the internal environment, to play with the cells via heat, light and sound and can in this way shape the development of the system.

When the generation has run its course the system resets, taking the position of the last cell as its seed and in this way provides a continuous story of the interactions and reactions of the internal system and external environment.

Created with Processing.

Documentation
The system created is evolutionary, gradually revealing changes over time, the process utilised for this project was the same. Small, iterative steps were taken with the code, branching and evaluating multiple times in order to understand the different changes that could be made to the system with small adjustments to the initial state.

A book of observations and considerations accompanies the project and includes an outline of the future of the system as well as the conslusion of this particular phase.

Open Data
Using Processing, data collected by the Push Snowboarding project - physical and mental data collected from snowboarders - is parsed and displayed as a projected digital poster, representing each run in real time.

Digital Poster.
To allow for the project to be shipped and set up by someone with little familiarity with the piece we developed a system to allow each element to be individually positioned, adjusted and saved for easy recall, as well as the option to load the data from multiple rider's runs.

With Signal | Noise

Site: Lucid Inc.
Design: Inventive & Co.