Installation Art
My time in graduate school at Georgia Tech afforded me new skills in hardware fabrication, software development, and instrument design. This has allowed me to expand my artistic work into creating sonic art installations in addition to my music and field recording. Sonic installations give me the opportunity to not just write new music, but to invent new physical sound machines that create unique textures that are difficult or impossible to achieve in other ways. Most importantly, these projects have given me a new creative outlet to combine my love of music, creation, and nature.
The MIDI Chimes
IoT Wind Chimes for Musical Control and Environment Sonification
Please check out Streetcat Media, the arts organization who sponsored this project:
The MIDI Chimes is a set of silent chimes that record and transmit the impact of conventional wind chime striker events as velocity-sensitive MIDI to synthesizers, samplers, and other digital instruments. The Chimes are built with PVC, 3D printed parts, piezo sensors, and controlled with Arduino microcontrollers. Different sets of chimes have been constructed according to different use cases with varying configurations of controllers, electronics enclosures, software, and chime sizes; most notably a small travel set for field recording and a larger set designed for permanent installation. The Chimes were built with the aim of giving composers new techniques for sonification as well as to encourage artists to incorporate local indeterminacy into their music. A full collage featuring MIDI Chime recordings can be heard in the music section of this site, and a permanent set of Chimes can be seen and heard at the VRT Lab located at the South River Art Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. The final paper and a repository of Arduino sketches, 3d printable STLs, Max MSP patches, parts list, and construction schematics are available above.
Sonic Mobiles - Triangle Chandelier
Hanging sound sculpture of 100 triangles
The Triangle Chandelier is the first of a new series of installation projects I’m working on called Sonic Mobiles. The Sonic Mobiles are audible adaptions of visual mobile sculptures- kinetic sculptures that appear differently depending on the indeterminate angle of their rotation. The Triangle Chandelier will hang dozens of orchestral triangles with varying sizes and metals. The idea is to create a shimmering, kaleidoscopic set of wind chimes which I hope will sound novel and exciting. The first Chandelier is currently under construction on a plot of forested land near my family home in rural Alabama. More info coming soon!