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Short video of the installation Shuvajit Das, John Baird and I created for TedXUofM 2014 at the Power Center in Ann Arbor.

The piece centred around a toy glockenspiel which had piezo contacts mounted on the underside of each bar. When struck and Arduino would trigger a light sequence to the WS2812 LED strips with the amplitude controlling the brightness and fade time and the colour corresponding to the note struck. 

The LEDs were contained within re-purposed plastic bottles with speaker wire acting as both the connection and the hanging mechanism. 

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Jan 2014 - May 2014 - Projects

Leave A Message (Telematic Version) - April

A multi-location sound-art installation that features 12 telephones located across the globe that will be networked together via the Internet at the speed of sound.

Electronic Lunch

Festifools, Lumenotbots, LED installations, taking underground tunnels and turning them into art and more...

TEDXUofM

I'll be making an interactive installation where visitors can play a toy glockenspiel that triggers many domestic lamps and floor lights to flash in patterns around the foyer of the Power's Center.

Many smaller scale projects, installations, and research nuggets are also in the mix. 

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People places thoughts

I first heard this song as a demo last year - it was the best song I heard that year. I spent the best few weeks of my life with Rachel over the holidays & we played this a few times at shows... I find it hard to focus on my simple drum part when I get distracted by the beauty of the song. I just want to sit in awe. 

Its easy to forget how talented and amazing someone is when you are so close to them. 

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My buddy fthrsn just released a new album too.

<a href="http://fthrsn.bandcamp.com/album/middle-school-swag" data-mce-href="http://fthrsn.bandcamp.com/album/middle-school-swag">middle school swag by fthrsn</a>

I see this dude nearly everyday and hes a real friendly, humble guy - so much so that in the same way, its easy to forget that he also happens to create some amazing art through his electronic music. Listening to this album just puts me in a happy mood, which is a priceless gift.

I know I am lucky to be surrounded by wonderful art-makers, but I feel that  nearly anyone could look around their friends, their town and find art that will move them more than anything you find on pitchfork or whatever. There are people all around you doing amazing things. Just open eyes and go to a show

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Playing at the netmusic conference in stanford was sweet. Was great to see people connecting all over the world that really care about making the medium of internet based music performance a feasible reality for the future. Stanfords basically got a holiday resort for a campus and the famous CCRMA is an old mansion (not joking).. ridiculous... 

At the moment Im working on a nuts art project with electronic lunch to make a hundred LED lanterns that communicate to each other in colour and brightness for a big parade in april

Also putting together some plans for an internet based music performance that toys on the idea of keeping the speed of sound intact over the web... more on that to come.