SONIC
compositions:
WANTS: 8-channel piece (mixed to stereo for mp3) for soprano and motorcyclist, paper
Something So Shallow: (quad piece mixed to stereo for mp3): field recordings, voice, vocoder, synth, drum machine
Get Back: construced entirely from field recordings captured while hiking
276IA: FM sythesis in csound, 1/f noise, sound grains, timbral and temporal transformations

recent pop/beats: gbv2, nosense, Aquinas in Traffic, Acting, In the Hay, Plan For

everything: full audio catalog

performances: see vimeo page

VISUAL
video:
Untitled: Video for a musique concrete composition by Marcel Fremiot as part of Transatlantic, a collaboration between Texas video artists and French composers. Explores the natural/constructed and dark/playful dualities of concrete music. The video was shown at One Arts Plaza in Dallas, TX and at the Laboratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseilles, France. (9mins, 38sec, 183mb)

Upon: re-edited and processed video and images from home movies. original sound. (2 mins, 5 sec, 6.5mb)

opengl:
The Superformula and Hexany: rendering/sonification of the superformula. a separate initial exploration of hexany
Origami Particle System: a simple particle system of generative oragami-looking shapes

SOFTWARE
Intro to C++ Audio Programming: several C++ audio learning modules
Karplus Drum: drum machine with 16-step sequencer using Karplus-Strong sounds
for(){loop}: 4-track audio looper with video capabilities
Object Tracker: an OpenCV based video object tracker
Simple Music in MATLAB
MATLAB Filter Design Tool

DEVICES
MIDI Bag: MIDI punching bag. Uses several Piezo elements running into a trigger to MIDI converter connected to a laptop to sense the level and location of the punch and respond with a drum sample. The idea is that if music can inspire exercise (ex. a good song makes one run faster) then exercise should likewise have the capacity to create music.

PAPERS
John Chowning: Overview, Techniques, and Compositions (includes interview 2.20.2009)
Auditory Displays and Sonification, (presentation slides)

ABOUT
Ryan Michael McGee
ryan at mat dot ucsb dot edu
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live performace at biko house, isla vista ca, 5.30.09