Music

02 Jan Top Albums of 2015

Posted at 15:54h in Music by laser 0 Comments

Well I've been doing these album lists since about 2005. Since I left college where I was music director at WRPI, it has been harder and harder to find what the best new music is for the year - I'll end up going back to...

04 Jan Top Albums of 2014

Posted at 18:59h in Music by laser 0 Comments

Late to the party as I'm posting this in 2015 - but I've been trying to do some form of this since 2004, so I figured I'd do my best to make a decent list for my own records. Unfortunately, this year I didn't do a...

22 Mar 3DFFT Sonic Prints new samples

Posted at 21:40h in Music, openframeworks, Work in Progress by laser 0 Comments

I've continued to play with my 3DFFT software that takes incoming audio and generates a 3D mesh from the FFT information. I've been playing with some different types of music and gotten some really nice varying results. Some slow ambient songs are like dragging a...

22 Mar 3DFFT Sonic Prints new samples

Posted at 21:40h in Music, openframeworks, Work in Progress by laser 0 Comments

31 Dec Top Albums and Songs of 2013

Posted at 15:51h in Music by laser 0 Comments

Been doing this yearly tradition since 2005! Unfortunately I believe I only listened to about 20 full brand new albums this year, so my full list is going to be a bit biased towards that small sampling of albums. Anyway - let's get to it!...

12 Jun Sonic Prints

Posted at 13:21h in Installation, Music, openframeworks, Portfolio, Work in Progress by laser 11 Comments

THIS PAGE IS OUTDATED!! Check the new post here and download the software to try for yourself! Using openFrameworks and ofxFFT to generate 3D Meshes of sound data for use in 3D printing. This is very much a work in progress, but just wanted to share some...

17 Dec The Ethereal Geometric Volume in music videos

Posted at 13:05h in Inspiration, Music by laser 0 Comments

I wanted to write something about a very specific genre of music videos that seems to pop up every few years and has only continued to increase in popularity as special effects costs get lower and the techniques get more accessible. This music video type can...

16 Dec Top Albums/songs/etc. of 2012

Posted at 20:23h in Music by laser 1 Comment

I've been doing a top 10 albums list since at least 2004 (see below for previous years lists). This year was another weird one for me in terms of discovering new music. The desire to purchase physical CD's is at an all time low, so...

20 Dec Top Music Videos of 2011

Posted at 18:19h in Inspiration, Music, Video Art by laser 0 Comments

(no particular order) Bon Iver - Calgary (really awesome environment..love the reveal at the end) Battles - My Machines (amazingly done single shot video) Hooray For Earth - True Loves (this needs to be made into a movie) No Age - Fever Dreaming (another good single shot video) Battles -...

20 Dec Top Albums/songs/etc. of 2011

Posted at 17:31h in Music, News by laser 0 Comments

Hm..haven't gotten to post here very recently unfortunately, but this is a special tradition of mine. Despite that fact that only a few people read these, it's kind of fun to have these for my own reference..just to ground my future self and be like...