video: making an accordion automaton, in a hurryJuly 21st, 2010
Motherboard tv was kind enough to ask me to make a music machine for them. Here’s their video of the process!
project documentation
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excerpt from last night’s performanceApril 3rd, 2010
Pianist Tiffany Lin adjusts the piano monster
Here’s an excerpt from last night’s performance of Zachary James Watkins’ composition “Moveable” for augmented piano. (I built the piano-tickling monster for this performance.) This is just a low quality recording – a much better one will be available later. The full piece is about 75 minutes long; the excerpt is 8 minutes.
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closing doors at nycemf march 25March 28th, 2010
I presented my piece “Closing Doors” for robot toy piano at the NYC Electro-Acoustic Music Festival last week. It sounded something like this:
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Previously with robot toy piano…
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greenmarket show reviewed at edible manhattanDecember 5th, 2009
Vegevision!
We owe that awesome headline to Brooklyn artist Ranjit Bhatnagar, who sometimes uses the term for his flatbed scanner images of Greenmarket produce, a project he’s been working on since 2000. His carrots graced the cover of Edible Brooklyn’s Spring 2007 issue, and selections from his scans–lovely little sprays of garlic chives, slices of okra that look like stars, and of course, bacon–are being shown through the month of December at the Baby Grand (world’s smallest) karaoke bar in a show called Greenmarket Scanography. For those who’ve been to this tiny Soho spot on Lafayette St., you know the key component of that name is Baby: This is but a sliver of a space, and thus Bhatnagar’s work, like others previewed at the bar, is being shown in slide format. Literally–the slides, shown below, are displayed on the wall, lit from behind, and viewed using the provided magnifying glass. Oh yeah, should you miss the show, you can see some of his recent work on Flickr, too.
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video of coney island installationMay 2nd, 2009
It’s still not quite ready for full-time operation, but now we can crank it up on special occasions!
[video on flickr]
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interview & video at nyc24May 1st, 2009
nyc24 covered the NYC Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, and posted an interview and some footage of me and some of my music machines. (Click the Robot Monkeys video!)
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produce scans on clickblog.itApril 20th, 2009
clickblog, an Italian photography blog, had a nice little post about my produce scans project. (Here’s an automated translation into English)
The project continues, with 263 fresh & all-organic images so far.
screenshot from clickblog.it
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live at barbèsMarch 5th, 2009
The Glass Bees and I played a bunch of my homemade instruments last night at Barbès in Brooklyn. (The show was made possible by Bethany Ryker, who brings interesting stuff to Barbès every Wednesday and to wfmu every Sunday.)
Here’s some excerpts from the show– thanks to bee Chris for editing and naming the songs!
You may be able to catch an interview and some more from the show on NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered this Saturday or Sunday. [Update: the interview aired on March 7th and can be read & heard on NPR's site.]
photo: me and two bees with our granny-carts full of junkstruments!
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odd instruments on NPRSeptember 28th, 2008
National Public Radio’s All Things Considered did a little feature on odd musical instruments on September 28th, and they were kind enough to feature some of my 29 Noisy Noises along with a bunch of other strange and wonderful instruments. You can hear the segment, and see a slideshow of some of the odd instruments, on the All Things Considered website.