I am excited to finally release Data Knot, a package for Max based on FluCoMa. It’s something I’ve been developing over the last 5 years or so, the last 3 of which were under the name SP-Tools. Data Knot…
In late 2023 I had the idea to expand the kind of feedback-based playing I was doing with pieces like Kaizo Snare by having some kind of robotic microphone arm holding an additional microphone that would be controlled by the…
I spent the better part of last year working on a performance that was a strange combination of things. It pulled together turntablism, feedback/friction, machine learning, signal decomposition, 3d printing, robotics…and a snare drum. All of these were ideas I…
I like to picture that there are an infinite number or realities, all running in parallel. The entirety of my existence, everything I have ever known is but one of these. I represent a single point on this infinite line.…
Over the years I have had many wonderful discussions with people whom I have never met. Either through emails, forums, or even chatrooms I have talked about all manner of things with people scattered around the world. Sometimes these virtual friendships…
The Black Box project is a project that involves Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on bass/electronics, Patrick Saint-Denis on robotics/electronics, Sylvain Pohu on guitar/electronics, and myself on drums It’s a four-way collaboration that has gone through two residencies (in Montreal and Huddersfield), to work out…
Here are a couple of performance videos using an approach I’ve just recently started calling Light Vomit. What you see in the video is a combination of automated processing (via The Party Van/Cut Glove) with a variety of DMX light interactions and behaviors.…
dfscore 2.0 is here! dfscore 2.0 is a much improved and completely rewritten version of dfscore that I started working on a couple of years ago. The dfscore system is a realtime dynamic score system built to display a variety of musical material over…
Here is the 3rd iteration of my ongoing series of pieces ‘Every. Everything at once. Once’. Before I gib gab about it, here is “Everything Everything at once. Once. (3a)”: The idea for these pieces is to focus my creative process…
The last few months have been both slow and busy at the same time. In that time I’ve been slowly working on multiple pieces/projects simultaneously. I figured it might be interesting to make a blog post about things in progress.…
Some more me & you action, this time live. Oddly enough, even though we’ve been at this for a while, this was our first live performance. The set went really well, to a full house at The Noise Upstairs. Still working…
The .com pieces are a series of pieces I started in early 2013 which are centered around snare drum feedback and form/memory as composi(/improvisa)tional material. So far I have finished two of them, iminlovewithanothergirl.com (for snare, microphone and DMX lights) and ialreadyforgotyourpussy.com (for…
So back in March I got some funding from my school to bring one of my favorite instrument makers to the UK. Peter Blasser has been making crazy amazing instruments for years now, and I’ve been using them from the…
Before I talk, here is some sights and sounds: During my summer tour last year I improv-ed my way into using a condenser mic as a friction implement. The sounds were harsh, but very controllable and with a great continuity…