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Hand Crank Drum Machine
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After a long “battle” with Hobby King, the motors and propellers that Neil Hickey and I ordered for our blimp never showed. We went our separate ways in our mechanisms finals. After some thinking and due to the influence of my past as well as seeing EJ Park’s Mechanical Storytelling, I came up with the [...]
NoC Final – Bounce Blip
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My final project for Nature of Code is a musical instrument of sorts. I wanted to give minimal control and a sort of generative sound.
Final Proposal – BlimpsYo!
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Mechanisms Final Proposal Blimps Yo! Mike Cohen & Neil Hickey
Strange Reflectors Performed
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Duly Notated
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Seeing Xenakis’ notation of his musical scores, especially in relation to the architectural pieces, was somewhat inspiring. He wrote out his music more from how he felt the music flowed, rather than the standard staff. My project, Strange Reflectors, initially didn’t lend itself to any musical notation in my head. After listening to some audio [...]
Free Body Diagram of a Hi-Hat
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For whatever reason, the first thing I thought of when asked to make a free body diagram was a hi-hat. Without a foot on the pedal, it’s a fairly simple diagram. Weight down, the spring inside pulling up. With a foot on the pedal, the forces become a little more complex. Looking at the top [...]
Strange Reflectors
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The current iteration of Strange Reflectors involves an Audio Spotlight (a hyper directional speaker) and 5 metal reflective surfaces that can be moved and rotated to direct sound from the AS toward each other and toward people passing through the Union Square North plaza. In order to spread Strange Reflectors out into the world, it [...]
Ghosts of Union Square
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Photographer, Sound Designer One day while wandering around Union Square in New York City, I wanted to capture the motion and action of the park in a single still image.
Music and Physics
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For the past 6 months I’ve been fine tuning a real-time music visualizer. The only real correspondence to music is the size of the shapes in the visualizer. I’d like to at some point add more motion and changes that can follow the music better. For now, I’d like to add some physics into the [...]
Trials and Tribulations and Eventual Success
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The Mouse Trap car was an assignment I had in my freshman year in undergrad. The problem with this is that I wound up leaving early that semester and completely missing out on it. Now was my chance to redeem myself. Scott and I discussed various ways to make use of the mouse trap’s power [...]
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