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 synth with "Brother Matt" who performs a mashup of tunes each week on the show in...
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 an improvisation. Here is the information from the REDCAT site:
The superbly imaginative, sonically expansive work of composer and sound artist Mark...
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 1998 using a primitive live video setup and one of the first live-video...
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 from July 5-7th, 2016. Here is a snippet about the symposium from the VU organizers:
The theme for our...
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 Los Angeles composers including myself, Scott Cazan, Ryan Gaston, David Paha, Sepand Shahab, Stephanie Smith and Colin Wamsgans.
http://dogstarorchestra.com/
Dogstar from...
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 in the 1930s and 1940s. The recording media mistakes are a framework for the improvisation and are blended with...
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 Anderson, John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Scott Cazan, Clay Chaplin, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Matt Ingalls, David Paha, Tim Perkis, Sara Roberts, Zachary Mariano, and...
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 improvisation that uses tracks from the Alan Lomax archive as source material.
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 based synthesizer for the performance.
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 external micro-controller is necessary. Pure Data is the software engine behind the instrument which provides a never ending array of sonic...
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 a little out of our musical safety zones. I've been forced to use Ableton Live for backing tracks and Heather will...
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 one of the founding members of The Hub and was a big influence on...
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.
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 newly created gallery space that is dedicated to sound works.
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 have created a portable 8-channel sound environment using custom made speaker boxes, networked Raspberry Pi...
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 basic video and audio applications.
In this workshop we will cover getting started with Raspberry Pi computers with...
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 concert series was founded by composer Michael Pisaro over ten years ago and highlights experimental...
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 the 13K range) that bounce around the room and create mind altering sonic experiences. I used the mid-side stereo technique...
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 on your desktop.
2. Insert your SD card into the card reader and see that it mounts on...
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:
sudo raspi-configIn the raspi-config menu navigate to the following options and make changes:
1) Expand the filesystem - will resize the amount...
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 your Pi and login.
- To start the Pi's GUI type:
startx- Double click on the WIFI Config icon that...
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 order to connect to the Pi from your laptop the Pi will need to be connected to a network and you...
When running a Pi headlessly it's helpful to find out the IP address without having to connect the Pi to a display. A Python script can be executed on boot to send you an email that contains the Pi's IP address. You'll need to edit the Python script that is linked below and one other file on your Pi to make...
You may find that certain characters do not show up as expected when typing on a keyboard connected to your Pi. This is because the default keyboard layout is set to work in Great Britain and some of the character mappings are different. To fix this you need to change the keyboard layout to work in the US.
To change the keyboard...
1. Shutdown the Raspberry Pi:
sudo shutdown -h now
Remove the SD card and insert it into your laptop’s card reader.
2. On your laptop’s local terminal program type:
mkdir ~/Desktop/Pi_BU to make a folder for the backup image
3. Then type:
df -hand look for your SD card. Make note of the disk number. It should look something like:...
INSTALL AN IMAGE VIEWER ON THE PI - Single view and Slideshow
To install the FBI image viewer type the following in a terminal on your Pi:
sudo apt-get install fbiTo view an image type the following:
sudo fbi -d /dev/fb0 -a -T 2 0001.jpg# the -d /dev/fb0 flag calls a 'framebuffer'
# the -T 2 is needed when controlling the pi via SSH - tells...
I've been experimenting with sound and video collisions using max/msp/jitter. The result of this particular collision is a one minute video loop using footage of a Dutch herring chef and a processed field recording of the market where the herring stand was located. The sonic and visual processing is driven by a crossed feedback network of parameter data from the digital...
I've been working on a Raspberry Pi video synthesizer that is coded in Python running on two Raspberry Pi computers. Each Pi runs a Python script to access the camera module controls and video effects. Each Pi's camera is pointed at the other Pi's video monitor to create a feedback loop. OSC commands provide remote control and are sent to each...
I built these Raspberry pi Speakers using mono amplifier boards from Sparkfun, 8 ohm speakers from All Electronics, a few components and some wood from my garage I have made four WIFI speaker boxes for Raspberry Pi based audio projects. Each speaker box has a Raspberry Pi in the back that runs a Pure Data audio patch. The Pure Data audio...
This past Spring I have been tinkering with the Raspberry Pi computers. They are pretty amazing considering that they only cost about $40. The two areas I have been researching have been running Pure Data networked between three Pis and setting up stand-alone HD video players for use in galleries and kiosks. Here's a demo video of three Pis networked together,...
This tutorial will turn your Raspberry Pi into a simple video player. The Raspberry Pi will automatically begin playing a folder of video files when it starts. The files in the folder will randomly repeat until the script is stopped or the Pi is turned off. To see a demonstration video please go here.The following instructions...
I will be teaching a two day Raspberry Pi workshop at Machine Project on Wednesday, March March 12th and Monday, March 17th 2014. The workshop will focus on using the Raspberry Pi camera module with an emphasis on capturing time lapse videos.
The first class session will focus on getting the Raspberry Pi set up, learning the commands...
Here are some instructions to get a Raspberry Pi streaming video using NC and MPlayer This method looks the best and has the least amount of latency.
Install HomeBrew and MPlayer
HomeBrew is a package installer for Os X. You will install this on your laptop and not the RPI. Installing HomeBrew will allow you to easily install MPlayer. It will...
Run the following commands on your Raspberry Pi to install Pd-Extended. Make sure you are connected to the internet.
1. sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list
2. put this line in the file and save: deb http://apt.puredata.info/releases wheezy main
3. sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 9f0fe587374bbe81
4. sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key D63D3D09C39F5EEB
5. sudo apt-get update
6. sudo apt-get install...
Here are instructions for capturing and compiling a time-lapse video using a Raspberry Pi and the PiCamera module.
Upload and edit the time-lapse video script
1. Connect to your pi via the terminal :
ssh pi@10.0.1.17change the IP address to match your Pi
2. Create a 'scripts' directory in your home folder of your pi:
mkdir scripts3. Open a new...
The video below demonstrates using a Raspberry Pi micro-computer as a standalone, high-definition video player for use in museums, galleries or any space equipped with an HDMI capable flatscreen monitor or projector. The RPI provides an inexpensive alternative to using a laptop, Mac Mini, or DVD player for the display of high definition content by video-artists, film-makers, and photographers. I've written...
I recently came across a review in Gramophone Magazine of David Rosenboom's In the Beginning double CD set that I recorded and mixed last summer for New World Records. The reviewer complemented the sound quality which makes me happy considering the amount of work that went into the project!
"In the Beginning II, for example, is an exploration by Rosenboom of an...
I will be performing with Tim Perkis and Wyatt Keusch on Sunday, November 18th at 9pm at Berkeley Arts in Berkeley, CA. We will be presenting an hour long set of improvised electronic music. There will be a trio, duos, and solos. Here's the official blurb:
Berkeley Arts 2133 University Ave., Berkeley CA
Computer music composer/improviser Clay...
Last week I went to Montana de Oro State Park to go on a field recording expedition. It was really fun! I brought home many interesting sounds of various sea birds, quail, seals and or sea lions, and the ocean splashing inside of caves. Many of the recordings were made on the water of Morro Bay in a sea kayak. Check...
I recently finished a new recording that will be included on an upcoming compilation of electronic music to be released on the Khalija record label. The six minute piece, titled mophophonic, grew out of an improvisation using a Blacet analog synthesizer. Treatments were then applied to the analog synth recording using a max/msp patch and the final...
I will be hosting and performing in the opening concert for the 8th annual Dog Star Orchestra concert series. The concert, titled Manipulated Field Recordings will take place on Wednesday, August 29th at 7PM at my house in Eagle Rock. The concert will take place on a large deck at my house known as The Deck concert...
I recently submitted a number of audio tracks for Tom Erbe who is working on a fresh version of John Cage's Williams Mix. The score calls for five to six hundred discreet audio events. I submitted a number of analog synth improvisations and a few field recordings. I can't wait to hear the piece considering that Tom is a...
My collaborative field recording installation, One Minute Los Angeles, will be shown July 27th -29th as a part of New Town Art's Knock Knock Sonic Surprise show.
A world of sound in 6 tiny rooms.
Open a door see what's inside.
Discover experiments in sonic performances behind each door.
Friday, July 27, Noon to 7:00PM
I just completed mixing and mastering a two CD set for composer David Rosenboom's series of works called In the Beginning. The project will be released as a two CD set in November of 2012 on New World Records. We initially recorded a couple of the pieces back in 2009 but the project hit full stride in...
I recently completed a recording session with composer/performer Heather Lockie who composed a really interesting and eerie sounding piece for string quintet and voices called Dryads . The plan is to edit and mix this summer and the piece should be available in the Fall of 2012.
Just completed a recording session with composer Mike Winter who has written a really interesting piece for electric guitar quartet called lower limit . The plan is to edit and mix this summer and the piece should be available in the Fall of 2012.
In 2002, Tom Erbe and I started the California Electronic Music Exchange Concert (CEMEC) series for graduate composers at CalArts, Mills, UCSD, UCSB, and Stanford to present new electronic and computer music works. Each year, a pool of pieces is used to program a mixed concert at each school providing an opportunity for students to travel and discover current compositional trends...
The California EAR Unit will be performing my audio-visual piece Tricomatic on two concerts this April. The first concert will be on Saturday, April 21st at Southern Utah University and on Monday, April 23rd at Northern Arizona State University. More information about Tricomatic is here.
I just completed the tracking for a recording of David Rosenboom's large ensemble work titled In the Beginning V. The piece will be included on a two-cd set of David Rosenboom's music to be released in the Fall of 2012 on New World Records. See the photos from the session below:
I just completed a recording for Andrew Dewar, Anne LeBaron, and Andrea Centazzo. The trio performed an amazing set of improvisations for soprano sax, acoustic and electric harp, and percussion. We recorded in the spacious-sounding CalArts percussion room over the course of a Saturday afternoon. See the photos from the session below:
I just completed the tracking for a recording of David Rosenboom's woodwind quintet titled In the Beginning. The Midnight Winds Quintet performed the piece over two days. The piece will be included on a two-cd set of David Rosenboom's music to be released in the Fall of 2012 on New World Records. See the photos from...
I just got back from STEIM and the 5th annual residency for the CalArts Experimental Sound Practices program. Each year I take four CalArts Graduate students from the music school to STEIM to work on a group project and performance. This year was very fun and successful. The participants this year were: Heather Lockie,
I will be visiting the Oberlin Conservatory's TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) studios on Wednesday, September 21st. I will be giving a talk about my work and meeting with students. More information about the TIMARA studios and program can be found here
I will be performing my piece Side Effects on Saturday, September 17th, 2011 in Lexington, KY as a part of the Studio 300 Digital Arts and Music Festival. I will also have my collaborative field recording and photography installation called One Minute Los Angeles installed in a gallery for the duration of the festival. More information about the festival can be...
Saturday, September 3rd &
Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Shows at 2 & 5pm
Aquacoustica from machine project on Vimeo.
A collaborative project of underwater musical performance and state-of-the-art ‘over-water’ live-electronic signal processing.
Being a passionate and experienced scuba diver for more than 10 years, Ulrich Krieger will dive into a pool in full scuba...
I'm going to be presenting a work on this amazing show. Its Saturday, July 23rd starting at 6pm at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock.
DUBLAB and Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Present:
TONALISM
an all night ambient music happening
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 – 6PM to 6AM
At the Center...
I'm heading to the Raflost Festival in Reykjavik from May 4th through May 8th. I'll be premiering a new audio visual improvisation called Side Effects. Also premiering will be a new installation for photography and field recordings called One Minute Los Angeles. I'll also be giving a short lecture on my work on Friday, May 6th. After...
For 2011 I have started a project called The Daily Skronk. The Daily Skronk is a daily laptop improvisation featuring short works that range from dissonant and grating to calming and meditative. It is a daily meditation of sorts called from the depths of the sonic zeros and ones that find their way into and out of my laptop. Each skronk...
I just received the video documentation of the 2010 STEIM exchange. It was a really great group of students to work with!
CalArts 2010 Residency from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.
I will be performing a noisy set for laptop and video at the Experimental Music Yearbook Festival on Friday, October 22nd. Should be a fun festival! Here's more information:
t h e e x p e r i m e n t a l m u s i c y e a r b o o k festival
October 22 - 24, 2010
Roy...
I am currently leading the 4th annual STEIM exchange for CalArts' ESP program. Each year I bring a group of graduate students to STEIM to work together on projects and a performance. This year's group will be working from September 28th through October 11th with a presentation and performance on Sunday, October 10th. Here are a few links to more information:
I will be traveling to Ljubljana Slovenia for the second annual Ear Zoom Sonic Arts Festival. I will be performing a new piece using my glove controller Stupid Thing and video. Here's more information about the festival:
IRZU institute for sonic arts research - is announcing the second...
The California Ear Unit will be performing my structured improvisation Tricomatic on Saturday, October 2nd at The Lab in San Francisco. Here is the flyer for the concert:
I've been working the last couple of weeks mastering a two CD set of improvisations for Innova Records by composer / harpist Anne LeBaron. The CD tracks are taken from a collection of live recordings made throughout the last ten years. Tracks...
I wanted to post this short audio track that I created for Viralnet's 2008 online project called The Lament Project. Here's a short blurb on the idea of the project:
The Lament Project' grew from a desire to produce an online work that responds to the personal anxiety and social crisis in...
This is a photo of Ulrich Krieger (sax) , Stuart Fox (guitar), myself (laptop) and Mark Trayle (laptop) performing Earle Brown’s Four Systems at the Betty Freeman concert at REDCAT. The concert celebrated the legacy of the late philanthropist, photographer and writer Betty Freeman, described as "without question the most...
Here is the documentation of our STEIM residency that took place in October of 2009.
Check out the STEIM Blog for more photos and text:
Here is a short and somewhat hilarious documentary movie created by Christoph Scherbaum. Christoph was assigned to follow us around a bit and find out what we were up to. One day, we accidentally locked him in...
I'm currently in Amsterdam for the last day of a 2 1/2 week residency at STEIM. It has been an amazing trip. The residency is part of an exchange program with STEIM and the CalArts Experimental Sound Practices program. Each year I bring three or four graduate students to STEIM to work on projects. This year we decided to...
Attached is a PDF that contains all the parts necessary for building a hydrophone. The parts on the list are from the following companies:
• Digikey
• Pacific Radio and Electronics
• Do It Best Hardware Center (I go to the one on York Blvd in Highland Park)
One thing to note. There are two type of cables listed for your reference....
I will be giving a two-part workshop on Hydrophones at the Machine Project Gallery in Echo Park. You can sign up here:
Sunday, August 16th: Part 1 2pm to 4PM
We’ll have hydrophone kits for your enjoyment. Minimal soldering experience required and plus we’ll help you. While constructing our hydrophones we’ll talk about field recording and more specifically about the properties...
I've curated three concerts for the Sea and Space Explorations gallery in Highland Park. The concerts are part of the gallery's annual Summer Resort events.
Thursdays, 8-10pm, $3 suggested donation
The Resort Sound Series Skronk-a-rama
Aug 13 - Mellownoisedrona , performances by: Scott Cazan; Casey Anderson & John Hastings; & Lewis Keller
Aug 20 - Sea &...
I will be giving a two-part workshop discussing the aesthetics and practice of field recording. The first session will cover the possibilities and history of the genre through listening examples and discussion. We’ll also cover how to make field recordings with information on microphones, field recorders, and techniques for improving your sound. You will have access to a field recorder which...