about the soundforms
Physical Modeling Synthesis.
Most of the sounds created in these works are original waveforms constructed on my computer with mathematical models.[1]
With physical modeling I can explore the parameters of timbre, texture and microtonality beyond the limits of both sampling and analog instrumentation, working to invent new color tones and sonic pigments while maintaining references to early and imaginal modalities.
Analog Antecedents.
Some of the physical models I’ve built are based on some real-world analog instruments I’ve owned, including:
Currier piano (1959).
Seasoned to a mellow resonance after years in an open-air living room
— the bay breeze coming through the Florida jalousie windows — a touch of sea salt in its hammer felt.
Woods guitar (2009) .
I bought it in Montana and hand-tuned it to the sounds of the Lochsa River in the Clearwater National Forest,
then allowed it to detune gracefully where I recorded it in the Puget Sound.
about the imagistics
Canon AE1 and EOS with Fuji film
Fujifilm FinePix s6000fd digital
Holga 120N with Ilford HP5 film
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As we find meaning in ideas, ideas become reflected in patterns, and patterns take meaning.
photo essay
about the studies
What we experience “out there” in the world is the effect of heuristics in our brain. As a result, existence occurs only in representations. Actuality is perceivable, but is it ultimately knowable? heuristics
everything is
completely
sound
Project Concept / Artist Statement.
There is a mystery at the intersection of matter and mind, at the confluence where substance is both a wave and a particle. A place where reality depends on how we observe it — where the structure of the world “out there” may be only an allegory of the strange loops, recursions and self-mirroring that underlies it all.
This multimedia project aims to explore that delicate, dynamic realm found at the margins of order and chaos, sign and symbol, the material and the imaginal.
Poised in that narrow space between the repetitive and the unpredictable is music — a peculiar ordering of sound in time — something we experience as different from random noise.
Down there, at the level of quantum strings, it can be said everything is completely sound. Perhaps then music is an analogue, a portal into that liminal space between the duality of waves and particles.
From strings above, to strings below.
about the website
Code
This website is hand-coded in PHP, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3. It’s hosted on an Apache server.[2]
Typography
Set in 100-900 weight:
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