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Faith, Music

For the first time in since I've been in college (10 years now), since this summer, I've been consistently been going to church. I feel like it had been something I was actively pushing away, and I can admit now that I know it's something important to me. Hopefully, I will be able to find [...]

By |2010-11-22T02:52:48-06:00November 22nd, 2010|blog, Me, music|0 Comments

Yes, that’s me.

Last week, as I was having breakfast-for-lunch at Louie's, the waitress, whom I have seen around Baton Rouge, told me she had "seen a video on Youtube with the song that's playing right now (in Louie's) where you shove a bunch of grapes in your mouth". The song was 'Heartbeats' by the Knife. And the [...]

By |2016-11-01T22:30:18-05:00November 13th, 2010|blog, Me, random, slice of life|1 Comment

Pop Reference

I recently came to a stopping point in an fixed electroacoustic piece that I had been working for a while. "Pop Reference" takes a dialogue I wrote between a pair during a car ride where they confront each on some frustrating situations with their relationship. The dialogue progresses through different exchanges where they both confront [...]

By |2016-11-01T22:30:19-05:00November 7th, 2010|blog, electroacoustic, Me, music, slice of life|0 Comments

Education

As of late, I've becoming more and more frustrated on how little I know. The more I try to make myself learn, the more disgustingly daunting the task of "catching up" to where I feel I should be seems.

By |2010-10-18T01:32:34-05:00October 17th, 2010|blog, Me, slice of life|0 Comments

Trombone and Electronics

Stuart Dempster in his The Modern Trombone wrote about the use of electronics: "A tape often is really only a substitute for something that might sound better accomplished by another method; this other method might, however, be prohibitively costly or problematical. Usually the audience is served up this sort of acoustical compromise, or a synthetic [...]

By |2010-09-30T14:47:28-05:00September 30th, 2010|blog, music|0 Comments

yeah right – art!

Now that everyone's living more virtually than ever and augmenting reality (and augmenting virtual reality), I've decided to jump on this ridiculous band wagon. I've created with pieces of beautiful and unique visual art. You might say they are very similar to someone's else (or similar to each other), but if you look very carefully, [...]

By |2016-11-01T22:30:19-05:00September 30th, 2010|blog, Me, random, slice of life|0 Comments

Dream

I had a crazy dream last night and I'm pretty sure I can pinpoint parts in my recent life from where they came and blame it on having 2 cups of coffee and a tea yesterday. [ I had weened myself to a cup a day. ] If anything, it serves for people who don't [...]

By |2016-11-01T22:30:19-05:00August 6th, 2010|blog, Me, random, slice of life|0 Comments

ICMC

Tonight was the first day of ICMC. I've met people I've read about in text books. I'm in New York for the first time. The hotel is across the street from Madison Square Garden and a few minutes walk from Times Square. I saw a show off Broadway and tomorrow I'm seeing a play starring [...]

By |2016-11-01T22:30:19-05:00June 2nd, 2010|blog, electroacoustic, Me|0 Comments

What the Bells

'What the Bells' is a musical piece that involves Wiimote, Laptop, and (recently added) iPhone/iPad. 'What the Bells' involves a 4 Bell players, each with Wii-Motes and laptop running a client Max patch. A central laptop sends performer instructions via OSC. Global parameters such as timbre changes and delay, controlled by iPhone or iPad, are [...]

By |2016-11-01T22:30:19-05:00May 28th, 2010|electroacoustic, Featured, music, Projects|0 Comments

Synthesis Tools

When I first started teaching, I created a few instructional tools to teach them basic sound synthesis. Each one, with the ability to record their sounds, demonstrated the basic synthesis technique well enough to be used in their assigned synthesis projects. These applications were installed on the studio lab computers. Each are available for download [...]

By |2016-11-01T22:30:19-05:00May 10th, 2010|Coding|0 Comments
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