Nick Hwang
I just finished my first session teaching Music Composition at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. My former roommate and talented composer, Zach Pfeifer started the program several years ago. Though he had asked me to do a session in the past, this was the year I could commit. I've learned in [...]
I recently presented a TEDx presentation at LSU. The entire experience was great. An entire day's worth of inspirational and informative. The speakers were mostly from Baton Rouge or Louisiana area, and I knew quite a few of them personally. Below is the video from my presentation. While it's different in format than most traditional [...]
This past week as been amazingly busy, humbling, and exciting. I have a premiere of a new work for saxophone and electronic at NASA in Orlando. I will be both presenting a paper and performing a work at Temple University for N-SEME conference. I've been preparing a TEDx presentation. And the new version of ICAST [...]
Is it a coincidence or something else? How do you relate music and sound? Visually? If it's me collaborating with visual artists to create interactive installations or writing projection-based laptop orchestra works, I feel like for a while I have been trying involve more visuals in my work. Today I was hit with a one-two [...]
So you got an [ Airturn ]AT-104 for Christmas. So did I. To go along with the MaxMSP hacking (as I did with the Korg nanoKontrol2) for my music-making, I decided to skip setting up MusicReader (for which the pedals were designed) and quickly tried to make sure it played nicely with my Max patches. The [...]
Edit: November 22, 2018 So you got a Korg nanoKontrol2 MIDI controller and you want to hook up to Max(MSP). I've made a simple patch to you get started connecting your controller to Max, where you can configure the individual toggle/momentary action, and is OSC-capable. The link is below. Of course, the first thing [...]
I used to take my coffee black. I don't remember the real reason, but I imagine it was based on the same manly impressions I learned from my thirds grade teacher, Mr. Urquhart, who at the time seemed ten feet tall- the most manly man I knew. He used to boot the kickball over the [...]
I will be attending The Prospectives International Festival of Digital Art October 18-19. My fixed media piece Wait will be performed at the Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center.
I updated to Mountain Lion not long ago and have been running most music programs and IDEs without problem. But I noticed issues mainly regarding Environmental Variables I set for network identifications. So here’s a way to set Environmental Variables for Mountain Lion. I had been using the RCEnvironment from Rubicode, but this method is [...]
Art & Technology Show Three works of interactive sights and sounds by Tom Lapann, Nick Hwang, Meg Scuderi, David Williams, James Kimura-Green, Tahjah Krauss, and Sarah Jones. September 7-14, 2012 Foster Gallery, LSU Reception: September 7, 7pm Pieces Coelocyte is an environment of light, sound, and texture. A responsive organism made from natural and industrial [...]
