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gen~ and js Tutorial for Max MSP

March 27th, 2025

I made a little tutorial for getting started using gen~ and js in Max/MSP for music and audio programming.

Artifact 1: Process

January 13, 2025

This project was my first experiment in wood carving, which is something I've been wanting to try for a while. I started with a chunk of bass wood that came with my wood carving kit. To get the overall shape I slowly whittled away along the pencil lines I drew. In retrospect, I should have hacked a rough shape out of the wood with an axe and then carved from there, since carving from the start took me around 3 hours.

Next I selected some shards of glass that I tumbled in my rock tumbler for about 7 days... [Read more]

The Auditory Mirror

March 9th, 2024

From the outside, the Auditory Mirror is an 8-foot tall by 4-foot wide box, draped in black fabric. It emanates an ominous ambience, beckoning the audience to step inside. Once inside, the user is enveloped in a rich soundscape and complete darkness. Although they can’t see anything, the Auditory Mirror can see them. As the user moves their hands and body, the sounds change and warp, responding to actions that the user cannot see themselves. The Auditory Mirror examines how we use our senses to interact with the world, and how that interaction informs our own perception of self. [Read more]

Where Genres Go To Die

by Renny Hyde & Elise Polo, 2022

In 2020, Hyperpop took the internet by storm. 100 gecs had an online presence that extended beyond the sphere of chronically-online music fiends, becoming almost notorious with the mainstream audience. The fast beats and pitched vocals of hyperpop scared some and captivated others, like myself, into a cult following of this scene of young queer people making music on their laptops. [Read more]

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