Amplifiers & Explosions

It begins as an idea. An idea is small. An idea flickers. The flicker grows. It can become an explosion. It can become all consuming. It can become everything. It is everything. It has always been everything.

Amplifiers & Explosions is a community, an idea, and sometimes a place. It also hosts multiple ongoing video series: play talk play, and Particle Castle Bubble Party!.

Improv Analysis

I came up with a framework to think about, practice, and analyze improvisation. This involves breaking the decisions made during improvisation into discreet streams, which I felt encompassed all of my improvisational thinking. These are Material, Formal, Interface, and Interaction.

dfscore System

The dfscore system is a realtime dynamic score system built to function over a local network to display a variety of musical material. The primary motivations for building the system were to allow for a middle ground between composition and improvisation, and to be able to dynamically restructure and reorchestrate material on any given instrumentation.

Cut Glove

Cut Glove is a live sampling and performance instrument built using Max. It was programmed around the Xbox 360 controller and contains mappings based on video game mechanisms and metaphors.