Live projections for Speak Onion’s – Maggot Whine music video

The visuals were created with Resolume Arena and a generative Processing sketch that are connected via Syphon.

Music video for Speak Onion’s – Ovoid Chamber

The visuals were created with Resolume Arena and a generative Processing sketch that are connected via Syphon. The video was captured live.

Music video for Speak Onion’s – Wakeless

The visuals were created with Resolume Arena and a generative Processing sketch that are connected via Syphon. The video was captured live.

Role: Designer, Developer
Client: Self, Parsons MFA Design and Technology Thesis
Team: Nick Hardeman, Bruce Drummond
Technology: C++, openFrameworks, OpenGL, OpenCV, SuperCollider, OSC, Photoshop, Maya

social sqncr is an interactive audio-visual installation that aims to make people more aware of the act of creating their public identity.

To create their ‘identity’, participants use their bodies to physically interact with a pseudo-musical instrument projected in a physical space to create virtual musical creatures based on their movements. The instrument consists of eight zones that participants interact with which influence the shape, movement, and aural properties of the resulting entity.

Once complete, the system captures an image of the participant to attach to the creature which is then set free into an eco-system inhabited by similar entities. The entities react to one another, much like human beings in a social network. Participants can cause environmental disturbances by physically interacting with the projection.

The physical movements required of participants ensures a high level of investment in the process, causing a heightened awareness of their creation, and thus themselves. Watching their entity interact with other entities is a reflection of their own interaction in their social networks.

Final Thesis Paper

A pattern generator made with Processing

The software can generate random patterns or be composed by a human via an interface. A pattern can be saved a vector for printing.

Transmutation: Abstraction is OS X application for live visual performance written in Processing. It has five configurable, audio reactive scenes with numerous parameters which can be manipulated in real-time. Frames from the application are streamed in real-time, via Syphon, into Resolume, where audio reactive, visual effects are used to further abstract the visual composition.

Nonlinear Division (nadir version) is an extract from live audiovisual performances with musician, Speak Onion, between 2012-2015, made with Processing. The music is choked with dense atmosphere, folding in on itself repeatedly, while the visuals are expansive, building outwards in every direction. The compound effect is a feeling of infinity: no beginning or end, no inside or outside, no familiar reference points. This causes a new and impressionistic experience of time – less a straight line and more an arc with ill-defined limits, which eventually feels just as familiar as it does new.

Transmutation is a custom audio visualization application created for Speak Onion’s live performance on 01/27/2012 @ The Charleston, NYC. It includes four audio reactive scenes, the parameters for which can be manipulated via a GUI in real-time, and splitscreen capability.

The application and source code can be downloaded from the github repository.

Parameters for each scene are mapped to logarithmically spaced averages retrieved from an FFT analysis of the input audio. These parameters include sensitivity, scale and position of elements in each scene, and can be tweaked in real-time using a GUI.

This project was coded using Processing. Some of the code is based on examples from Daniel Shiffman’s – The Nature of Code.

Beautiful People is a poster generated by analyzing and processing pixel data from Marilyn Manson’s “Beautiful People” music video. The software was written in C++/OpenFrameworks. The software analyzes histogram values for each frame in the video and generates organic elements based on these values. The size and position of each element is dictated by the average brightness of darkness of that frame in the video.

Excerpts from VJ set for Analogue Transit

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/30775916]

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/30775582]

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/30775127]