A recent test using a Raspberry Pi computer, a night-vision video camera, and a Python script to make timelapse videos of the inside of our compost bin. The audio recording was created in tandem by placing a microphone inside of
A recent test using a Raspberry Pi computer, a night-vision video camera, and a Python script to make timelapse videos of the inside of our compost bin. The audio recording was created in tandem by placing a microphone inside of
One the many uses of a Raspberry Pi computer is connecting environmental sensors to the GPIO pins to collect or interact with environmental measurements such as ambient light, ambient loudness, temperature, barometric pressure, air quality, humidity, wind speed, soil dampness,
“Here we must be beneath the stones,’ the girl said, whispering, and her whisper ran out into the hollow blackness and frayed out into threads of sound as fine
as spiderweb and clung to the hearing, for a long time
Hexopa (2022) is a series of audio-visual vignettes resulting from experiments with CMOS-inspired audio synthesis and generative video code using Max/MSP and Jitter.
The sounds were created using one bit synthesis adjacent techniques in Max MSP. Coding inspiration came from
MESH 2022 is a collective of improvisers located in Los Angeles. The organizing principle behind MESH is to bring together unique improvisers to create long-form sonic works through recorded media. The energy is open and non-structured and thrives on free
Reynisfjara is a structured improvisation centered around a slow panning video shot at Reynisfjara beach in Iceland. Field recordings from the natural landscape of Iceland and electronic textures and samples are woven together to create an ambient, meditative performance.
Reynisfjara
Album Notes
Supercosmic is the inaugural release by the computer music collective Bitpanic. All tracks are free improvisations recorded remotely during 2021. Bitpanic members were located in Stockholm, Chicago, and Los Angeles and recorded live online via
Potential Artifact (2021) is a series of computer-based improvisations using sample manipulation, algorithmic processes, feedback, and randomness as organizing principles. Though rarely recognizable, samples include acoustic instruments, spoken words, field recordings, and computer generated tones.
Album Notes
All tracks are free improvisations performed during the Covid-19 pandemic. We virtually gathered via networked audio software to improvise in real time. Each player sent their individual audio signal to a shared
I recently discovered this gem from the first annual CEAIT Festival in 1997! It is a performance with Mark Trayle and Andrew Bucksbarg who both have unfortunately left this plane of existence so this was especially meaningful to find. The
Marshweed Ensemble recorded this record at the Berenice house in NE Los Angeles in Nov/Dec of 2020, and it is largely made up of live tracks from the studio
Here is a recent video I recorded using Netty McNetface and OBS. During the pandemic i have been improvising remotely with friends and colleagues from CalArts. We’ve been getting together every other Saturday afternoon or so to improvise together
The video below is a brief demonstration of a synthesizer I built a few years ago (2017) using a Raspberry Pi computer and a Pure Data patch. I only used the synth for a few performances and then moved on.
Bitpanic is a computer music collective based in Los Angeles that explores networked compositional systems, experimental sound practices, and improvisation. The group follows the computer music lineage pioneered by The Hub. Current members are all former students and colleagues of
Feeney Chaplin Sumner is a trio that makes ambient electroacoustic improvisation. Tim Feeney, Clay Chaplin, and Davy Sumner coax bass shakers, vibrating sheet metal, field recordings, synth tones, and tuning forks into evolving drones, disparate characters, and patient textures.
Casa Berenice Recordings is a small record label, podcasting center, recording studio, and performance venue located Los Angeles. It is a collaborative project with my partner Heather Lockie. Our goal is to provide a creative musical space for recording and
One (2019) is the debut album by the trio Feeney Chaplin Sumner. Feeney Chaplin Sumner make ambient electroacoustic improvisation. They coax bass shakers, vibrating sheet metal, field recordings, synth tones, and tuning forks into
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Mesh (2018) was an experiment in psychogeography, collaboration, and sound led by Clay Chaplin. During the month of June 2018, a group of sound artists from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Reykjavik took residence
The CMOS Noise Camerata is a group of CalArts music students from diverse musical backgrounds who met in my Fall 2017 Electroacoustic Seminar class at CalArts. Each member of the group built their own CMOS-based synthesizer from scratch using old
In the Spring of 2017 I started researching how to build my own unique and interesting electronic sound-making devices. There are many DIY circuit schematics out there but I was particularly drawn to the CMOS-based circuits for my creative work.
CMOS Monster is an improvisation using three CMOS-based synthesizers that I built in the summer of 2017. The video below is from a performance at the Wild Beast Concert Hall at CalArts on September 7th, 2017.
The Cacophonator is an amazing noise making synthesizer based on the 40106 IC chip. The sonic complexity of this circuit is surprising considering its small part count and easy to decipher board layout. The circuit contains four oscillators that
Wake (2017) is an album based on field recordings that I have collected over the years. A few of the recordings have been creatively treated to modify the soundfield and others are presented in their original
Marshweed in the Garden is a project by Heather Lockie and Clay Chaplin. For about two years, we worked in the studio to create a new album of Heather’s songs. We were the primary
For Bunita Marcus is a solo piano work by composer Morton Feldman. Musician Marco Lenzi describes the work as: “The peaceful inertia of free-of-shock time, the slow decanting of the forms in approximately an hour and fifteen minutes of music
THANKS SHARON (2001 – 2004, 2017)
Thanks Sharon is a video improvisation using the sanitized nature of the local evening newscast as source material. The piece examines an aspect of newscasts known as the throw, when one anchor or reporter
Bitpanic, the computer music ensemble that I am in will perform at Boston Court on Saturday, March 18th, as a part of the People Inside Electronics concert series. Here is the press info:
Consisting of members Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, …