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Making movies from mathematical analysis of audio data.


March 2008

Vizzy Live!

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Saturday, May 3rd at 8:30pm in the MIT Stata Center Auditorium

music by

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic

still

Room 32-123,  32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

free admission!

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As part of the Cambridge Science Festival, I'll be adding music visualizations to the performance, live & realtime!  Check here for last minute updates.


February 2008


-- New work --

Orange Sky, music by Shimon Ben-Shir Group.  About as representational as I get.



My father has been using Vizzy (my animation software) quite a bit.  This is an image he sent me, made of Gregorian Chant:

allelulia

January 2008


-- New work --

Gymnopedies, music by Erik Satie, performed by Robin Alciatore
A new technique for calculating color.

Parade, music by Ken Field.
Like people dancing-- or marching-- seen from above.

Windswept, music by Dan Weiner.
Up close and personal with a fast guitar.  I feel like I can see his fingers touching the fretboard. 



December 2007

-- New work --

The Missing Soul, music by Ken Field.
Much of this is a solo sax, which makes the visuals really responsive.  Eerie.


November 2007

Erev plays at the CYNETart festival in Dresden.


August 2007

Erev plays at SIGGRAPH in San Diego.


April 2007

My short (5min) animated video 'Erev Shel Shoshanim,' with music by Heathen Creek, will be playing!


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Saturday April 28
at 3pm, at the Visual Music Marathon at Northeastern .

Erev

--- Full preview
(lower res) at Lumen Eclipse or YouTube. ---

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As part of the promotion for the Marathon, it will play on a public 50" screen in

Harvard Square, Cambridge
Thursday 4/26
and
Friday 4/27

For those in the Boston area, consider joining me either of those evenings where I'll be checking it out, seeing its companion pieces from the Marathon, and watching people watch!

The 1-hour loop runs continuously all day, on a screen atop the circular info booth in the heart of the Square.  Best seen after dark.






YouTube
My youtube page, with a bunch of movies.


about
A little about me, about the project, about the music.

gallery
Higher resolution than YouTube, and some not posted there.  Requires Quicktime plugin.

links
Relevant people and projects.

contact
Questions, comments, vegetables.



Essays

Reading Music Images
Some hints to understand what you're seeing.


Sound Waves
The subatomic structure of sound.

Frequency Analysis
All pictures, no equations.



Music Spectrograms

Clair de Lune
Classical, music by musopen

Ways
Flamenco/jazz, music by Shimon Ben-Shir Group

Shanghai
Art rock, music by Chiefly




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