Selected Videos

Here are a few videos documenting some of my current and past projects. There are many more at my main video dump on Vimeo.

XBAND Demo

Demo of a new system to share automatically generated musical phrases in conventional notation with a group of musicians.

Touch Typing

My main improv instrument, as used in hundreds of concerts over the years.

SqueezeDrum

A short demo of my little musical instrument/toy prototype, which lets listenable drum solos be played by the rhythmically challenged.

Third Eye

Here's a gizmo to let people see behind themselves through haptic feedback. Built for a workshop given at The Machine Project in Los Angeles in 2012.

A short visit to the lab of one of my collaborators in Marseille, Alex Escarguel, plasma physicist. I built a system to provide him with sonifications of the live spectrographic data gathered from his plasma chamber. (Hear them near the end of the video.)

IMRA Marseille 2013

An interview with me by Samuel Bordreuil about my career, and in particular about my work in Marseille in 2013.

A Fish Clinging to Water

Trailer for my 19m short w/ sound artist and mystic Sam Ashley. Off to the Amazon to study shamanism, Sam finds spy photos, a CIA agent, the Peruvian secret police, bureaucrats in their underwear, leftist revolutionaries... and other guiding spirits. Full film here.

Ancient Computer Network Music!

A living-room rehearsal in 1980 of the League of Automatic Music Composers, the first computer network band. At this time, the members of the League were John Bischoff, Jim Horton, and Tim Perkis. We see a tangle of microcomputers, hacked musical toys and homemade synthesis gear, each player's computer connected to the others in an ad-hoc network of wires connecting parallel ports.