NIME 2014 (New Interfaces for Musical Expression)

A tongue-in-cheek homage to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s famous total-serialist work Klavierstück XI, in which the performer glances at a sheet of music and randomly chooses to play from 15 notated fragments. In this case, virtual agents negotiate a texture – from 16 possible combinations – based upon the following features: slow/fast; sparse/dense; loud/soft; rhythmic/arhythmic. When the same texture has appeared three times, the performance is complete. 

Rwar! A Study in Sonic Skulls
Recreation of a lambeosaurine hadrosaur, Corythosaurus skull and nasal passages 3D printed and machined from CT scans of fossils. Performers and gallery vistors create sound by blowing into the mechanical larynx and it gets resonated by the dinosaur's nasal passages. This project is supported by 2012-13 GPSA Graduate Research Support Program Award, and was shown at the Emerge Festival Showcase, March 1-2. Another related project, a composition for this instrument, tuba, tape, and live electronics, "How to Speak Dinosaur: Courtship" was be premiered on April 15, 2013 at Katzin Recital Hall, Arizona State University.