Nick Hwang
If you haven’t met my grandfather, then you might not understand my family or me. I’d like to think there’s a bit of my grandfather in me. His impression on my father is undeniable. If anything, I want to say my family is special. We’re exceptionally close; no doubt from my grandfather’s influence. [...]
I recently bought Bob Moggridge's book Designing Interactions. It's a really awesome book, full insight on design, the ideas behind the work, and is absolutely full of real-world examples. It's going to take me some time to get through it, and I've been trying to think of a good way to either annotate, highlight the [...]
Last night, I had a really nice hang and conversation with a fellow doctoral student, whom I don't get to see much anymore. Him, another doctoral student and I spent a couple of hours comparing dissertation work, musical advances, future plans, and general chit-chat. I got some great advice about the anxiety I've been feeling [...]
I recently got took part in the New Music Controllers workshop at CCRMA, Stanford. Overall it was a great experience. I took a similar class at LSU this previous semester but was interested to see how differently it was as CCRMA. In the end, it was not very different, but the personal connections and the [...]
I was walking by LSU stadium to my car after and just thinking about how I hate staring at a screen all day. Laptop screen, iPhone screen, ipad screen, etc. It wears on the eyes. And then I passed this large bush with some flowering something's. I've heard that looking at green things helps your [...]
Day 2 in Washington DC: We woke up a little earlier and got out the do ~10:15. Grace took the day off to be with us. Our first stop was the Natural History Museum with two important destinations: the dinosaur hall and the ocean hall.
I flew into DC at Midnight:30. My sister picked me up in her pajamas. I’d come to visit her and see DC. My parents had taken the family to the Smithsonians and monuments when we were in elementary. I remember running up down the hill of the Washington Monument with my siblings while my dad [...]
[ Construction no. 1 ] (interactive installation) addresses concepts of resonance, feedback, deconstruction, and inundation in the contexts of sound, music, and social media. The installation is a collection of position-aware resonant acrylic cubes, that, depending on their placement, respond with varying audio and projected visual. http://youtu.be/bWEzRxS7Oz8 http://youtu.be/zD6R4b679LI Social Structure [ Construction [...]
Social Structure [Construction no. 1] recently got accepted to perform at Pixelerations in Rhode Island in September 22- October 2, 2011 as both an installation, September 22-24, and performance, September 25. Stay up-to-date with the development of the in-progress work [ here ].
Bugs in the System | 2011 Bugs in the System is a (prototype) installation piece using Arduino, Sharp IR distance sensors, Max/MSP, HexBug bugs, LEGO’s, contact microphones, and a metal maze, where the location of battery powered Hexbugs bugs, in relation to a track, determines the sonic outcomes. The entire premise is based on ‘bugs’: [...]
