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Grimy Conductive Humans
My radio tentacles have been playing up lately. It’s standard that musical instruments need maintenance and it’s no different for my tentacle instruments. This particular […]
Drone tentacles
Just a quick experiment to see how it sounds when I attach tentacles to my supervisor Andrew Brown’s Drone Machine. The drone machine is a […]
Mirror Mirror: Smile install
I was invited by curator Kyle Weise to participate in ‘Dice Topologies’ at Redlands Art Gallery, a group exhibition around themes of chance and computation […]
Smile at Mono & ACMC
After experimenting with MediaPipe – a tool for machine learning deployed for mobile devices – I wanted to explore how I could use this technology […]
Tentacle Orbits
Program NoteTentacle Orbits is a participatory performance composed with sewn and knitted, tactile electronic instruments that are tentacle-shaped and played live through manipulations such as […]
Idea: Smile controlled performance
A performance in which the volume of the performer is controlled by a smile, if the smile is not big enough smile prompts play and […]
Flow – Storm
Ideas for flow storm scene This is created using Flow emitter to track people’s bodies for the storm scene. make the background lightning using bloom […]
tentacle and daisy
Tried it with the oscillator – not a great response – very little variation in numbers now testing with an envelope to try and make […]
Shiny blob
Instancing spheres using Nvidia Flow and using pbr textures for world reflection. It’s more like a sludge than fluid so would need some work that […]
Touchdesigner optimisation
I reviewed content on optimisation in Touchdesigner. TouchDesigner Vol.035 Cooking, Optimization, & SceneChanger by Ben Voigt is an approximatelyl 3 hour video playlist that covers […]
Proximity
I thinking of some methods to detect proximity between people in an installation. Using the Kinect Draw a circle around the person using the skeleton […]
Materials Research
ISEA 2024 took place in Meanjin/Brisbane in June. I exhibited some materials research and performed at the opening. I opened the performance playing my noise […]
Foot Sensing Strip Sensor for Amusement Dancing Machine
I purchased these foot sensors from Ali Express in 2022 and haven’t had a chance to play around with them until now. Assuming they were […]
PBR materials in Touchdesigner
I haven’t spent a lot of time working with 3d and materials so the PBR Everything tutorial by Lake Heckaman looked promising as a way […]
Time Machine
I’m going to look at creating a delay effect with time machine and the texture 3d TOPs. I started by using processing the video in […]
Water experiments
I’m working on some sketches and visual styles for Flow a project with Georgie Pinn. The aim is to create images that evoke different states […]
Media Pipe and Touchdesigner notes
This output is available from the pose tracking tox for mediapipe. !!! for smooth looping don’t forget modulo – (absTime.seconds*5)%360 – eg for the hsv […]
Experiments
8 x 32 flexible led matrixTesting the fastled matrix library which is built on the neopixel library from Adafruit. Water in Touchdesigner Using tops and […]
Maths as a Flow State
At ITP camp, I attended a workshop by Orren Ravid entitled Maths as a Spoken Language. Orren discussed methods for representing creative expressions of thought […]
Welcome to the blog
This blog will document the processes, discoveries, and research undertaken for my PhD at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Meanjin, Australia. The current title of […]