The Raspberry Rainbow Synth is a DIY synthesizer that uses an onboard Raspberry Pi 4 microcomputer, Python 3, and Cycling 74’s RNBO software along with various potentiometers, buttons, and an LCD. The synth uses RNBO patches as the sound source
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
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.
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.
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
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
PiAv is an audio-visual installation that explores sonic and visual improvisation by exploiting glitches, loss of network connections, and random abnormalities created through pushing the limits of a network of microcomputers. A closed network of ten microcomputers creates a cross-pollinated
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
The Daily Skronk (2011) is a collection of tracks selected from daily improvisations that I recorded from January to April in 2011. Each track was recorded live and the collection is free of edits
Except for Juno Hack, all of the tracks are structured improvisations performed using various controllers and a laptop computer. Spoken word samples from preachers, transients, wrestling commentators, and politicians are the primary sound sources. All
Chindogu (2004-2008) are Clay Chaplin and Sean Rooney. They make live improvised computer music using homegrown software instruments. Combining pop-culture samples in a mix that’s by turns dense, frenzied, rhythmic and melodic, they are a strange