In the Fall of 2013 I started tinkering with Raspberry Pi micro-computers. The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. I was and
Heather Lockie and I went on Mike Watt’s Watt from Pedro Show on Tuesday, December 20th for an interview and to play tracks from the upcoming Marshweed album called Marshweed in the Garden. We also improvised on viola and …
In the Fall of 2013 I started tinkering with Raspberry Pi micro-computers. The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. I was and
Bitpanic, the computer music ensemble that I am in will peform at REDCAT on Saturday, December 3rd for a concert of Mark Trayle’s music. We are sharing the bill with The Hub and are performing two of Mark’s pieces and …
Side Effects (2011-2013) is a series of short audio-visual improvisations that I call digital meditations. Each improvisation utilizes a feedback structure in the software where the audio and video signals influence the abstraction of each other creating an infinite palette
MegaThought (2008 – 2012)
MegaThought is mainly Clay Chaplin, and Aaron Drake but sometimes includes Lewis Keller, and Phil Stearns depending on when they are in Los Angeles. We make live improvised skronk music together using a combination of …
ONE MINUTE LOS ANGELES (2011-2012)
One Minute Los Angeles is a collaborative project that combines field recording and photography. Artist Lara Bank and sound artist Clay Chaplin trekked throughout Los Angeles to document one minute of time in everyday environments. …
I will be providing live-visuals for pianist Vicki Ray’s performance of Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus on Friday, July 8th at Boston Court in Pasadena, CA. Vicki and I originally collaborated on a similar performance of For Bunita Marcus in …
I will be performing a set of improvised computer music featuring my piece, Old Raney, as a part of the first annual VU Symposium on experimental, electronic, and improvised music. The festival will be held in Park City Utah …
I am organizing a concert of new field recording works to be presented as a part of the 2016 Dog Star Orchestra concerts. The concert will be titled Dog Star from the Fields and will feature new works by local …
Old Raney is a computer-based improvisation using field recordings from the Alan Lomax archive as source material. The field recordings I chose for this piece are significantly filled with pops, clicks, and scrapes from the acetate disc recording media used …
Saturday, February 13th 2016 – Mills College
A tribute to composer and sound artist Mark Trayle, featuring his solo compositions and works for network bands performed by his musical friends, colleagues, and students associated with Mills and Cal Arts: Casey …
I will perform a new improvised work at The Wulf on Saturday, February 6th, 2016 starting at 8pm or so. I am happily sharing the bill with Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly) and Tania Chen. I will premiere a computer-based …
I will be premiering a new piece called Potential Artifact on Monday, September 28th at the ICMC conference in Denton, Texas. The piece is a structured improvisation for viola and computer. I will be using a new custom-made, Raspberry Pi …
This summer I’ve been working on a prototype for a low-cost, Raspberry Pi synthesizer that is completely self-contained and ready for performance. The prototype uses a Raspberry Pi B+ computer and the built-in GPIO pins to provide controller inputs. No …
Heather Lockie and I will be premiering some of the songs from the upcoming Marshweed in the Garden record that we’ve been working on for about a year. We are very excited but also a little tense since we’re both …
bitpanic, is a newly formed networked computer music ensemble located in Los Angeles comprised of composers Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, David Paha, Stephanie Smith and myself. Each of us studied at CalArts with Mark Trayle who was …
The photo gallery below shows the process of building eight Pi Speakers over the course of a couple of weeks in the Summer of 2014.
The video below is a brief excerpt from PiAV when it was installed in the WaveCave Gallery at CalArts.
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My eight channel audio-visual installation PiAV premiere’s tomorrow in the WaveCave gallery at CalArts. The piece will be running from September 1st to September 9th. I have the pleasure of being the very first artist to present work in the …
I will be premiering a new audio-visual installation titled PiAV at this years International Computer Music Conference in Athens, Greece from September 14th through September, 20th 2014.
PiAV is an immersive multi-sensory environment created using twelve Raspberry Pi computers. I …
I will be teaching a three day Raspberry Pi workshop at Machine Project on Tuesday, July 29th, Thursday, July 31st, and Tuesday, August 5th, 2014. The workshop will focus on using the Raspberry Pi camera module with an emphasis on …
TRICOMATIC (2002-2010)
Tricomatic is a structured improvisation in three short movements. It is scored for piano, cello, percussion, video, and tape. The piece is freely based on the notion that human color vision involves three types of retinal sensory receptors.
I will be co-curating a concert and premiering a new piece for the 10th annual Dog Star Orchestra concert series. The concert will take place on Tuesday, June 10th 2014 at The Wulf in Los Angeles. The Dog Star Orchestra …
I recently finished a recording session with Mark Trayle. We recorded his piece Nearfield Edges in the Wild Beast concert hall at CalArts. Mark’s piece uses a piezo-based feedback mechanism to activate the space with very high frequencies (in …
Installing the system on your SD Card
1. Download the system software here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads – choose the latest Raspian “Wheezy” installer
Once the file downloads, extract the image by double clicking on the download file and put the image file …
Raspi-Config Menu
When you boot your Raspberry Pi for the first time make sure it is connected to a display. The software configuration window should open. You can run the raspi-config program from the terminal at any time by typing:…
To get a WIFI dongle going I find its easier if you use the Pi’s GUI. To do so make sure the Pi is connected to a video monitor and your WIFI dongle is plugged into a USB port. Start …
At some point you probably will want to connect to your Pi remotely using the Terminal program on your laptop. This allows for the Pi to be run “headlessly” – meaning a display is not connected to the Pi.
In …