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Projects

Here you’ll find a list of most of the projects I have been involved with over the past few years. The projects with their own sub-pages on this website are listed first, followed by a chronological listing of everything.

Projects with their own sub-pages

• RjDj – “if you’ve ever wanted to live directly inside that warm nostalgic analog echo that molasses-drips from every Boards of Canada album, your magic key is a $2.99 App Store download away” (says brandonnn)
• waves to waves to waves – audivisual performance developed during AVLAB 1.0 at Medialab Prado, Madrid
• ofxOsc – OpenSoundControl addon for openFrameworks
• wind – an experiment in cross-perceptual visual sonification
• aCablePlays – collaborative A/V performance with Chris Sugrue
• solar chorus – a site-, weather-, and time-specific installation/performance for the sun
• live music performance practice – continuously evolving PureData patches for live improvised electroacoustic music
• sun run sun – GPS sonification; a project by Yolande Harris
• into the wandering wandering – slips, scratches, and light play with Alouis Woodhouse
• sounds like light, lights like sound – interactive immersive installation, winner Best Visual Arts, Wellington Fringe Festival 2007.
• mail garden – organic mbox email visualisation, for a more reflective communication consciousness
• multi-user multitouch tracking system – robust multi-user multitouch fingertip tracking using overhead computer vision
• future farming roadshow – 12 cpus, 9 touchscreens, 6 enormous plasma flat panel displays, one truck, one designer, one programmer (me)
• bleep – workshops for people who make music using machines.

Full Listing

2008

• Pure Data patch development with Yolande Harris for her project Sun Run Sun, Amsterdam (NL) 22-24 January 2008

2007

• performance at TAC, Eindhoven (NL) 18 December 2007
• artist talk at STEIM (NL) 17 December 2007
• artist talk and work presentation at Dorkbot Valencia (ES) 30 November 2007
• created MailGarden in collaboration with Kjen Wilkens, as a participant at Visualizar, Medialab Prado, Madrid (ES) 12-26 November 2007
• performed with the Variable Geometry Orchestra at Portugal’s most prestigious music venue, Casa da Mùsica, in Porto (PT) 12 October 2007
• member, New Interfaces for Performance September 2007 onward
• live performance with TokTek (NL), Kathy Hinde (UK), André Gonçalves (PT), Tom Bugs (UK), at O Século, Lisbon (PT) 24 September 2007
• live performance with Pedro Boavida (PT) at Estudio Bomba Suicida, Lisbon, PT as part of NIP – Sonic Scope – Upgrade! Lisbon weekend, 21 September 2007
• workshop participant, NIP Lisbon, PT, 19-22 September 2007
• resident artist, Home, Lisbon, PT, 15 September – 15 November 2007
• live performance with Chris Sugrue (US) as part of Ars Electronica 2007, Linz, AT, 5 September 2007
• live performance at the Modulate Sound Cafe, Shambala Festival UK, 25 August 2007
• collaborator+assistant+workshop tutor at Interactivos?, Medialab Madrid, Madrid, ES, 25 May-7 June 2007
• Artist in Residence with the Modulate Collective, Birmingham, UK, April-July 2007
• performed with Control6580, Happy, Wellington, NZ, 17 March 2007
• developed, designed and constructed Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound, an interactive immersive installation that won Best Visual Arts at the Wellington Fringe Festival 2007, Wellington, NZ, January-February 2007
• performed Improvised Solo for PD Patches at the Big Bay Out festival, Coromandel, NZ, 20 January 2007

2006

• performed circuit-bent toys at Little Day Out, Wellington, NZ, 10 December 2006
• performed at the Analog vs Digital World Championship Noise Battle (Team Digital), Happy, Wellington, NZ, 6 December 2006
• performed with the Laptop Rhythm Pioneers supporting Deadbeat, San Francisco Bath House, Wellington, NZ, 24 October 2006
• facilitator, Bleep Workshop: Deadbeat, Happy, Welligton, NZ, 23 October 2006
• collaborated with Daniel Agnihotri-Clark on Sisyphus, an art-bot built from a hacked remote control tank with a webcam and deliberately flawed computer vision capabilities, August-September 2006
• performed circuit-bent cellphone toys and keyboards with Emile de la Ray, Bleep Performance: Circuit Bending, Happy, Wellington, NZ, 26 July 2006
• tutor+coordinator, Bleep Workshop: Circuit Bending, Wellington, NZ, 23 July 2006
• performed Googlism for:tube with video artist Emil McAvoy at Intimacy and In.yer.face, Great Hall, Massey University, Wellington, NZ, 20 July 2006
• performed laptop in improvised groups, Bleep Performance: Bleep, Happy, Wellington, NZ, 21 June 2006
• tutor+coordinator, Bleep Workshop: Bleep, WAC, Wellington, NZ, 11 June 2006
• performed Forgotten Pretty Things aka Edison Hates the Future with video artist Emil McAvoy as part of Soundtracks at The Film Archive Mediaplex, Wellington, NZ, 27 May 2006
• performed Reciprocity, a performance built entirely using feedback audio and video, with video artist Emil McAvoy at Interdigitate 06, Moving Image Centre, Auckland, NZ (MIC website | catalogue pdf), 5 April 2006

2005

• composed the soundtrack for Into the Wandering Wandering, a short film by Alouis Woodhouse, November 2005
• performed improvised audio with video artist Emil McAvoy at Indeterminacy & Interface, Wellington, NZ, October 2005
• performed improvised audio solo and with dave edwards, The Cake Shop, Wellington, NZ, September 2005
• performed improvised solo verbal deconstruction based on recordings of the night’s open mic spoken word at Howltearoa, Word Festival, Wellington, NZ, August 2005
• composed and performed music for the Jo Randerson play Honeybear and the Reaper, as part of ‘Crack’, the first Victoria University of Wellington third year students’ theatre season, Wellington, NZ, July-August 2005
• performed with the Laptop Rhythm Pioneers, Bomb the Space festival, Happy, Wellington, NZ, June 2005
• performed with the Ascension Band, Bomb the Space festival, Happy, Wellington, NZ, June 2005
• performed with the Laptop Rhythm Pioneers, Bodega, Wellington, NZ, May 2005
• performed at Catchpool Found Sound Project performance alongside Biosphere, Adam Concert Room, New Zealand School of Music, Wellington, NZ, March 2005
• performed Evolution with the Ascension Band, winning the Best Music prize for Wellington Fringe Festival 2005, Newtown Community Centre, Wellington, NZ, February 2005

2004

• Founding member of the While You Were Sleeping audiovisual artists collective
• Composed the soundtrack for Composition #6, a short film by Alouis Woodhouse
• Performed with The Frey Band, While You Were Sleeping, Bodega and Happy, Wellington, NZ
• Composed, produced, and self-released Loud and Quiet double album
• Performed with the Ascension Band, Meatwaters festival, Happy, Wellington, NZ

2003

• Composed and produced the Secret Knowledge Which I Lack EP, which gained radio play on RadioActive, Wellington’s largest independent radio station