Sounds

Last night I had my first live set at the Vigil, MICA's annual all-night music festival. I wanted my set to create atmospheric music. My theme is a wide open environment and to give the impression of an imaginary place within space or the ocean. I used Ableton to play record synth clips. I incorporated my samples from various sources, from 50s to Super Mario games. I made everything have a very mellow tone, and it is supposed to give a relaxing yet attentive impression.

The set was improvised and I recorded a similar one right after to put online. Here it is:

Places With You

I completed one of my hypertext memoir projects this week. Places With You is a surveillance project which focuses on friends and acquaintances by finding places we have both been to. Using Facebook, I randomly went through my 'events' page online and wrote about one of my Facebook friends attending. I recreated an imaginary scene using true stories from random memories I have of the person. Click the image to check it out:

Skeleton Key

Today my roommate was shoveling dirt in the backyard for a project and I found this strange rusted object. I decided to make make own mini-sculpture and put it in a wooden case with plastic ants dancing on the glass window. Just for fun!

Warriors

Probably going to work on this a little more later but it's basically done.

It comes up so tiny on here, the original drawing is 12x12 inches.

Newer Animations

I am silly and forgot that I wanted to show some of my more recent animations on here! So here are a few:



The Traveler - December 2011

This was part of "The Travelers" installation which occurred in Baltimore's Penn Station December 2011.



Blackmail - October 2011



Cemetery - November 2011

Voice sample from the old radio show "The Strange Doctor Weird."

Midwest Monsters

I started this while I was visiting my grandparents home in Muncie, Indiana. Passing through all of the Walmarts and highways gave great inspiration.

First Gallery Piece

In November I had my piece in a gallery for the first time! The exhibit was called Calibration and was held at the In/Flux Gallery in Baltimore.

My piece was an interactive display named 'Cosmic Temple' where the viewer could make noises and would be responded by projected images of space.

I'm excited to delve deeper in exhibiting more of my work in the future!