sound shapes

In late 2013 I did a study exploring the creation of generative forms from short spoken phrases.  I wrote some software which interpreted audio and generated different objects based upon those sonic queues. Click the image below to see some …

bordeaux

in august of 2012 i explored bordeaux and st. emilion france and took some pictures. click the image below to view that photoset:

tilden

urban exploration is in interesting concept to me because it acknowledges the truth that our urban landscapes are subject to the same aging and degradation that our bodies are subject to. here are some shots from an expedition i made …

tuio2midi

tuio2midi a max4live utility I created to facilitate with the work I did on the Acura table in the Esquire House with Hush. TUIO is protocol for exchanging multitouch information.  MIDI is a protocol for encoding music note information.  This is …

soundfeature send

Here’s a tool which I made to analyze audio in a track in ableton live and send information about the audio via OSC ( Open Sound Control ) to a custom visualizer.  Click Here To Download Soundfeature Send for Max4Live. …

rockband drum controller midi Interface

I started experimenting with use of the Rockband Drumset as a midi interface about a year ago. I just wanted to see if it could enable more natural sounding drum parts. Feel free to download and share at your whim, …

the surface

The second piece in my visual instrument series is a multitouch membrane controller I’ve been calling the surface. It uses a usb webcam alongside a modified version of ccv to extract the location and depth of touchpoints. It then scales …

the touchquilt

The touchquilt is the first piece in my visual instrument series. I undertook it as a means of solving some of the problems I had run into involving projection interaction with the wiimote whiteboard setup in performance. The wiimote whiteboard …

exploring

this is a performance piece i created for an interactive art class at the university of georgia in 2009.

brainfilter

In Spring of 2010 I did a performance at the Black Box theater at the University of Georgia alongside Geisterkatzen and Ted Kuhns. My brother, Eric McGaw, filmed the event for a documentary film screening at Athfest and gave me …

scapegoating

This performance of (12/19/2008) marked the beginning of my experimentation with projection-interaction for the use of live performance. The song is a resequencing of scapegoating, a song you can find on my record waxing. It is meant to be a …

berlin

In Winter of 2009 I worked with Justin Roberts to create an interactive installation to celebrate the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Justin, who is an extremely talented craftsman studying Dramatic Media at the University of Georgia, built a life-sized …

soundrawing

the soundrawing project marked the beginning of my computer vision research. the pitch, volume, and brightness of the sound is analyzed and used to determine the respective color, width, and height of the paintbrush. the xy location is determined by …

hexagon

My first hardware electronics project was the creation of a unique wireless foot controller. Athens sculptor Andrew Ferrer helped me create a reclined 6 sided box in which I mounted 7 sturdy pushbuttons. I then modified a bluetooth wireless keypad …

blobdance

this is an animation i created during my experimentations with batch processing in photoshop and illustrator. it was created for my myspace page back when myspace was relevant and they allowed for page customization.

direct manipulation video

The ‘direct manipulation video’ series consists of three experimentations I did in early 2008 with giving the user the ability to manipulate time and space using their mouse within the browser. The images are large, so please be patient as …

fractals exploration

i love fractals because the concept of the fractal succinctly describes my entire world view. an algorithm accepts a random number, scales and alters that number, and feeds it back into itself in order to choose the coordinates and color …