After a hiatus of two years due to COVID, the Northeast Electro-music Festival (NEEMFest) returns to the Center for the Arts in Homer, NY on Sept 9-11, 2022. Part music festival, conference, and social gathering, the event has been going in some form for over 10 years. Highlights include opportunities ...

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The following video selections cover a wide range of techniques and interests that I’ve explored over the years. I’m always trying new things, learning new software and exploring how to make more interesting content for both the web and live performance. More on YouTube! ...

Drawing from 10+ years of experience attending ambient, space, and electro-experimental shows, I’ve developed a hardware and software toolset that lets me provide striking on-the-fly as well as scripted visuals. The video projections that I offer fall into the following categories: A great example of pre-rendered video is my work ...

Like peanut butter and chocolate, Ableton Live and Touchdesigner go great together. Ableton Live and Touchdesigner can be equally messy and sticky. Persistent work with TDAbleton (the free component package that makes communication between the apps possible) will reward the user. In the first short video below, I am using ...

On 2/6/22, I performed for about two hours on Bandcamp via their new live stream offering (not to be confused with music streaming like Spotify, etc). This was a low-key experiment intended to put this new Bandcamp tool through the paces and compare with previous experiences streaming on Twitch, YouTube ...

I’m offering another virtual Touchdesigner workshop for The Fuse Factory – an art and technology initiative focused on cultivating artistic production, research, and experimentation with digital media and electronic tools. Visual artists as well as musicians and writers can all create compelling things with Touchdesigner, so creatives of all types ...

I have a passion for sharing music technology and creativity with young minds. Over the years, I’ve put together a series of workshops that fall into the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) category. These offerings – whether in demo or workshop form – can be tailored to a wide ...

I’ve decided to make Instagram the home for my visual experiments. Over the past two weeks I’ve posted a group of samples from the last year of intense Touchdesigner study. [instagram-feed] ...

This is an extended example of a single channel of BCI data sent to Touchdesigner via OSC. The main difference here is that I am breaking out each of the five band power values and mapping them each to something different. After I made this video, I confirmed that the ...

Read Cyton Data into Touchdesigner From Static File

These videos recap some of my earlier proof of concept attempts for getting data into Touchdesigner using file output capability of the OpenBCI GUI. In the first case, I first generated a file using the OpenBCI GUI, then later pulled the data into Touchdesigner (non-real time). In the second attempt, ...

Continuation of previous experiments with getting BCI data into Touchdesigner. ...

This is a rudimentary demo of an OpenBCI signal (in this case, FFT of channel 5) mapped to an audio generator (Sine wave generator). As I move my arm the frequency tends to go up, though there is not any fine control at this point. But there is a clear ...