I will be doing a joint final project for my Visual Music and Animals, et al classes.  I am basing the project on Catullus 85, a love poem by the Roman poet Catullus to his mistress Lesbia: Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. English translation: I hate [...]

Our assignment this week in Visual Music class with Zach Layton at ITP was to “make a projected image display without computer…only light and other means to diffract it.”  I decided to create a piece using common household objects.  I used a flashlight to shine light through glass containers I found in my kitchen (a [...]

A short report I wrote up for my Visual Music class: A Brief Overview of John Cage’s Musical Philosophy Asian cultures were a major influence on American composer John Cage.  He began studying Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940′s, which led him to his ideas of indeterminacy and chance-controlled music, which he [...]

This semester, I’ve been working on building my web programming chops in Dynamic Web Development and Flash of Flash at ITP.  Using some of the new skills I’ve picked up, I have created three ways of presenting Snapshots, an online collection of music I have composed this school year at ITP. Original HTML version PHP/MySQL/Javascript [...]

My latest project for Animals, People and Those in Between @ ITP: The Animal Subject You will take your “Animal Object” character, and flip the script by investigating the subjective point of view of the animal you chose. What is it like being inside this animal? What is its view point? How does it see– [...]