FoldSynth @ VizBi 2010

FoldSynth 2010 © 2010 Peter. All rights reserved.

This was the subject of my MSc thesis, and has been ongoing for some time.  Recently presented in a poster session at the EMBO Visualisation workshop.  There have been some more exciting developments since… Abstract as posted on the Goldsmiths … Continue reading →

Alligator Guitar

aliguitar © 2010 Peter. All rights reserved.

Inspired by Nick Didkovsky’s “Density Trajectory Study II For solo guitar and computer“ I’ve recently been spurned into getting hold of a few alligator clips for the purposes of preparing guitar strings.  Placed on modal points of the strings, they exchange the … Continue reading →

Music for Bathtub

bathtub © 2010 Peter. All rights reserved.

Playing around with a big glass jar in my bath.  I was going to edit this, maybe in a rhythmic way… then I thought maybe it would be fun to play around with the YouTube Javascript API to do some … Continue reading →

Kaleidoscope feedback

kfeed3 © 2009 Peter. All rights reserved.

I’ve been playing around a bit with doing video feedback through a kaleidoscope shader. In these images, the ‘seed’ that is fed into the feedback is simply the plain black or white background of the window.  There is a single … Continue reading →

Video feedback

Image9 © 2009 Peter. All rights reserved.

Here are a few images I created with (virtual) video feedback.  Many of these were automatically evolved based on their spatial-frequency content.  Others were generated interactively, with various different interfaces.  Really, this stuff is much more fun when moving, and … Continue reading →

Hello world!

Screenshot © 2008 Peter. All rights reserved.

Welcome to xinaesthetic.net. Here is an application for exploration of the parameter space of a graphics synthesiser. Your motions are followed and used to determine the fitness function of a genetic algorithm which breeds new offspring to replace those you … Continue reading →

Water in suspended animation

IM001137 © 2008 Peter. All rights reserved.

While we were both studying at Middlesex, Lee Gamble asked me to take some photos of a rather mind-ticklingly brilliant setup that he had arranged in his bedroom with a hosepipe connected to a loud speaker illuminated by a periodic … Continue reading →

Surreal Strings

astring © 2006 Peter. All rights reserved.

A little improvisation with a synth I made in Reaktor. The synthesis is “cascaded waveguide”, excited by an audio recording and controlled by midi keyboard.  As such it has some acoustic-ish dynamics, twisted in a way that wouldn’t be physically … Continue reading →