Erica Mott explores civic participation, social movements and interconnectedness in the digital age with her new American-Egyptian collaborative project Mycelial: Street Parliament.

Liminal Space is an aleatoric piece for cello, motion capture, and interactive software. It explores what happens when the past – J.S. Bach’s Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 1 in G major (BWV1007) – meets the present, i.e., movement computing, stochastic music, and interaction design. Through aleatoric means, the composition creates an interface between a cellist and a dancer. As the dancer moves, she creates sounds. The two performers engage in a musical dialog, utilizing Bach’s original material.

SoundMorpheus is a system for telematic sound control via myoelectric sensors.  It allows the telematic control and placement of sounds in space, as well as the altering of sound characteristics, via arm movements that resemble those of a conductor. The interface supports control of MIDI and traditional audio sources and instruments via one or more myoelectric sensors.

Diving into Infinity is a Kinect-based system which explores ways to interactively navigate M.C. Escher’s works involving infinite regression. It focuses on Print Gallery, an intriguing, self-similar work created by M.C. Escher in 1956.  The interface allows a user to zoom in and out, as well as rotate the image to reveal its self-similarity, by navigating prerecorded video material. This material is based on previous mathematical analyses of Print Gallery to reveal / explain the artist’s depiction of infinity. The system utilizes a Model-View Controller architecture implemented over Open Sound Control (OSC).

Time Jitters is a four-projector interactive installation synthesizing AI, interaction, music and visual art, to create an immersive experience for participants.  Each person entering the installation is tracked by a computer-based intelligent agent. The agent selects a unique image and sounds to go along with this person, which change as the person moves through the space.

JythonMusic is a software environment for developing interactive musical experiences and systems. It facilitates computer-assisted composition, providing composers and software developers with libraries for music making, image manipulation, graphical user interfaces, and interacting with external devices via MIDI and OSC, among others. This environment is free and open source, intended for musicians and programmers alike, of all levels and backgrounds. Here is a first-year university class using it to create a Laptop Orchestra performance of Terry Riley’s “In C”.