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Kai Luen Liang A short film investigating the metaphors of vision and landscapes used in Chinese surveillance hardware branding. Uses various Generative Adversarial Networks(GAN)/ machine learning image synthesis techniques to generate material related to vision and changing landscapes from traditional Chinese landscape brush paintings. Also looks at word associations with images by using text descriptions to generate images. The …
Kai Luen Liang Grains is a music interface made from a box of rice and custom electronics. It is both a sound object and way of controlling the sound it creates. The sound of the rice is recorded in real time and then processed by the pressure of the rice against the box. Both the sound and the input data of the …
October 24, 2018 REDCAT @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex This piece is based in Raga Bhairavi and written for the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra, the Isaura String Quartet, Lydia (Mechatronic String Contraption) and a Yamaha Disklavier. Composed by Ajay Kapur in 2018 Isaura String Quartet + KarmetiK Machine Orchestra Andrew Piepenbrink, Ben Tillotson, Jasna Gara, Kai Luen Liang, McLean …
Music programming => your DAW Download now: ChuckRacks-0.9.pkg (Mac VST/AU) Learn how to use Chuck Racks and integrate it into your work in the new online course from CalArts, The Modern Music Technologist. ChucK Racks makes it possible to write and execute ChucK programs as VST/AudioUnit plugins. The ChucK Racks architecture supports the following features: Process incoming audio in ChucK (i.e. Audio FX plugins) …
James Meason Wiley & Jim Murphy; MTIID Program The Hemis were inspired by designs pioneered by Dan Trueman, Perry R. Cook, and Curtis Bahn. Used in the well known laptop ensembles PLOrk (Princeton Laptop Orchestra) and SLOrk (Stanford Laptop Orchestra), the hemis have been featured in a number of ensembles and performances at CalArts, notably the AH! Interactive Opera and …
Bricktable is a multi-touch & tangible user interface table created by Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis, two undergraduate students at California Institute of the Arts. Both musicians, the idea for Brick came out of a conversation between Jordan and Owen, discussing how to sonify data in a way that was both musical and meaningful for the user. Ultimately leading to …
The Multi-Laser Gestural Controller James Meason Wiley The Multi-Laser Gestural Controller is a newly developed musical controller which uses reflective laser light to send control messages that can be used to create music and control live video. Control messages can be created by breaking the laser light with the hand (on/off), or by moving the hand up and down within …
Owen Vallis & Jordan Hochenbaum Developed in 2005 by CalArts Alum Brian Crabtree, the original Monome has become of the most widely used, open-source computer music controllers of all time. In 2008, Jordan and Owen set out to create a software-compatible clone of the Monome using the Arduino Microcontroller. A cheaper alternative to the typically expensive Monome, there are over …
Dimitri Diakopoulos Argos is a drag-and-drop GUI builder built in openFrameworks, a framework for fully cross-platform creative coding. Argos deals specifically with creating musically oriented interfaces for composition and live performance. The application was originally an open-source, 2009 student project for the Google Summer of Code under the supervision of the NUI Group.
Funk Machine Duncan Woodbury, John Aspinall The Funk Machine is a system of two three-axis foot pedals that can be openly assigned to any parameter either through the use of MIDI or OSC. There is also a series of 4 stomp-buttons that can be utilized to switch through presets as well as manage and control accompanying audio or musical robotics. …