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Shibuya Crossing

This is a collaboration between Alphonse Izzo and Lief Ellis. Izzo created the audio and Ellis constructed the video. The idea behind the work is based on a feeling of detachment when entering overwhelmingly large and crowded urban environments. There is a sense that one is in another world. The famous crossing in Tokyo was [...]

Mysterious Skin by Dan Hosken and Robert Wechsler

A performance by Palindrome at the 2008 SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) conference at the University of Utah. Robert Wechsler, dancer/choreographer, Dan Hosken, sound and interactive sound programming. The video from a camera focused on the dancer is analyzed in realtime by the program EyeCon and that motion data is passed [...]

Time Sculptures II by Ge-Suk Yeo

Time Sculptures II considers another aspect of the nature of time: the moment, one often not strictly defined section of the present – between the past and the future. Only at the moment – instant – we do exist and there is a past, a present and future. The moment is constantly exposed to a [...]

Five Elements Embracing by Forrest Tobey

This is a performance for Buchla Lightning and synthesizer from 1998. I am, in 2010, returning to my work with the Lightning, and find that this performance still stands the test of time, despite the fairly low quality of the video. MaxMSP was used to control the Lightning performance. The entire performance is 13 minutes [...]

The Melting Sun by Seiya Matsumiya

The Melting Sun is an ambient composition in the Bohlen-Pierce scale, whose tonality, timber, volume, and timing are determined algorithmically from a video of the sunset.

The sounds heard can be separated into two groups: the drones, and the melodies. Both groups feature three different Csound instruments that each correspond to various types of Red, Green, [...]