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 Resume Bio Map live performace at biko house, isla vista ca, 5.30.09