Multimedia
Selected works in the field of multimedia art.
DISTANTIA AV
DISTANTIA is a multimedia audiovisual project about the mediated nature of observation blending satellite imagery, virtual spaces and deep immersive soundscapes enriched by AI generated sounds. These elements are weaved together, creating a collection of landscapes viewed from the distant perspective of SENTINEL-2 satellite, processed, analyzed and returned in various types of visualizations, from vast virtual scenarios to distrupted and fragmented pointclouds, inviting viewers into a complex scenario where perception is blurred by the overlap between reality and representation. For this project I worked as applied music machine learning engineer and consultant providing the notebooks necessary to train RAVE models for neural realtime audio synthesis, giving guidance on their use in the studio and for ableton live performances using nn~.
MONAD & SENSE
Multimedia fashion design project in collaboration with Kakan Kudo. I perfomed livecoded music, mixed and mastered it.
CHIAROSCURO
Performance in three acts by Joy Lee that explores the duality of emotions, from dark to light. My roles included performing modular synthesizers and real time processing of the audio from the other players through custom made Max/msp and Csound software.
The video showcases the first iteration of the project, presented on a 10.2 channels sound system with three video screens for projections.
Video of the second iteration of the performance featuring Neil Leonard on saxophone, Aaron Myles Pererira and Kedaar Kumar on Visuals and the dancer Madeline Miller.
DIGITAL FOREST
Multimedia performance produced in collaboration with Nona Hendryx and Will Calhoun. My role in the project was to lead and coordinate a team of students whose objective was to create a website interface through which the audience would have been able to perform and affect the music during the performance, generate the sound effects to be controlled by this web interface, set up the network through which all the performance data was piped and distributed, and regulate how all the teams would use this network to share data with each other based on each team’s needs.
A ROSE OUT OF CONCRETE
Performance produced by Hank Shocklee and Nona Hendryx. This project consisted of a multimedia performance piece featuring 3 projection mapped screens, 15 dancers and 10 music technologists that meant to be an experimental manipulation of the body to produce and control sound, lights and visuals through the use of sensor applied on a group of 15 dancers choreographed by Duane Lee Holland Jr. I was part of the tech team lead by Dr. Richard Boulanger, in charge of developing the devices that, reacting to the gestures of the dancers, manipulated and transformed sounds, visuals and lights. Some of the software I specifically developed for this can be found in software.
SAMSARA
Collaborated on a three-movement multimedia performance realized by A2daC as his final capstone project for the Electronic Production and Design major at Berklee College of Music. My main role in the project was to develop a series of custom Live devices to be used by the artist in the performance. The principal device I created is a Max for Live looper that would allow the player to record and manipulate music on the fly allowing the performer to shape the composition in real time.
visuals: Jacob Johnson | dancer: Erica Codd | videographer: Fen Rotstein