Projects

Experiments, games, and short films

Smaller pieces and one-offs. Sensors as instruments, instruments as sculpture, and a few films with sound by me.

#LoopAtHome 2020

A short piece made during Ableton Loop at home with the 1010Music bitbox micro, three LFOs, and PRES, a library of analog loops, rhythms, and tones to splice, process, and arrange. The challenge was to dive into those samples, kits, and effect racks and make something of my own.

bitbox micro, Ableton Live, PRES

Christmas Carols on Hydro Flasks 2016

A medley of classic carols played on a one-of-a-kind instrument built from Hydro Flask bottles, performed during a live broadcast for the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance on December 21, 2016.

Hydro Flask bottles, mallets

Sunwise & Widdershins

An experiment with a singing bowl, an accelerometer, and two Nerf balls as controllers.

MainStage, Arduino, Max/MSP

The Secret Meeting of the Shoes

A short stop-motion animation about shoes.

Canon 5D Mk II, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro X. Voices by Steve Joslin.

Coral Music

An interactive multiplayer game created with Mike McCrindle, Peter Raymond, and Macklin Underdown. Peter and Macklin wrote the underlying code, Mike composed the sounds and most visuals, and Steve built the player controllers, gameplay logic, and voiceover.

Processing, Logic Pro X, Adobe Illustrator

A World in Decay (trailer)

A two-minute trailer for the show of the same name.

Canon 5D Mk II, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro X

The Dreamer (trailer)

A two-minute trailer for the show of the same name.

Canon 5D Mk II, Motion, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro X

Violin & Sensors

An experiment in controlling live sound output from a violin with motion sensors.

Shake SK II, Nintendo Wii Remote, MainStage, Max/MSP

A Simple Kind of Mirror

Controlling sound and visual output in real time with a Microsoft Kinect sensor.

Microsoft Kinect, MainStage, Max/MSP

Colour Obscura

An iPhone generates colours. Those colours become data that generates and controls audio and visuals in real time.

MacBook Pro camera, MainStage, Max/MSP

The Smell of Bread

A short film about memory, and bread. Directed by Hali Eliza with music and sound by Steve Joslin.

Score and sound design