Nick Hwang
about music
'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 [...]
I haven't written in a very long time. Last semester, I arranged and directed music to an LSU theatre production of Maria Irene Fornes's Promenade , music by Al Carmines. It was an "experimental" musical at the time in the 1970's, that didn't reach much success. Fornes's obsurdist approach to forming the piece may have [...]
Latex Post I'm sitting in a 15-seat van on the way to Denton, Texas for Electric Latex, an electroacoustic festival held in the South. It's an eight hour drive. We're on hour 6. My electroacoustic professor and 7 composers. At any given time, there are 3 powerbooks/macbook pro's being used. One is learning to program [...]
Dr. Beck is the first person to laugh out loud. The middle person is Mark Applebaum, genius composer. The clicking noise is my neighbor moving around in her seat and unrelated to the non-music. We played ultimaterockpaperscissors while listening to Dufay's Missa Se la face ay pale. Valentine's Day pictures