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Random Walks is a open source generative audio-visual installation that tries to capture the vibe of a sound walk in an area by combining field recordings with OpenStreetMap data. It was originally developed for Moscow’s Museum of Cryptography as part of the «Город говорит» project. Given geo-tagged field recordings, an abstract observer randomly traverses the city’s streets and triggers sounds.…
Inspired by the incredible rope webs of Charlie’s Webs , my boi Lyosha and I decided to try making our own rope web for a tiny festival on the outskirts of Moscow. After an afternoon of work, we had a decent five-pointed web that could hold 10 people. Since we had the hardware from my bike synthesizer project with us, we decided to hook up its gyroscope to the web in order to sonify people’s…
This post is a work in progress Recommended music to listen to while reading this: Skagos - Anarchic (especially Movement IV) Every time I see a plant growing out of a crack in the ground, rocks, asphalt, or the side of a building - somewhere it has no place being - it fills me with a sense of delight and joy. I’m sure this appreciation is widespread - but where does it come from, and what does it…
I’ve been livecoding in hydra and Tidal Cycles since about 2020, and want to share some patterns that I never get tired of. Visuals Feedback is my bread and butter in hydra. When VJing I like to set up a patch with feedback and audioreactivity, a source video/camera feed, and just walk away and chill out while my patch does its thing and lives its own life. This is a technique visual artists have…
Building on the humble beginnings of my bike synthesizer project, I got the chance to develop it into a live performance for CYFEST 16 in Yerevan with my boi Rob . We called our project Cadence Clock: Rhythm of the Streets . In this post I’ll give an overview of our technical setup and decisions, and what went right and wrong. Poster by Bogdan Boichuk : Cadence Clock: Rhythm of the Streets is an…
Wow, it’s been five years since my last attempt at using my website to bare my soul to the whole wide internet ! Let’s give it another shot with some cool people on the internet who inspire me and I think more people should know about. In no particular order, Tony Santoro Best known for his YouTube channel Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t , Tony’s a passionate botanist who doesn’t hide his disdain…
Remember that time two years ago when Nitin Gadkari said he’s planning to introduce a law that mandates replacing horns with the sound of indian classical instruments? ( news article if you don’t.) Some might call it unrealistic, but it came up in a conversation and I thought the man was ahead of his time so I wrote a toy agent-based simulation of chaotic traffic and hooked it up to VCV rack to…
The bikesatanist manifesto, as published in the 3rd annual новогодний зин КППХ (russian language). Art by interpassive . Text below. Why is cycling satanic? It is: Rejection of the established car-centric order Acceptance of chaos on the road and in our lives, and self-determination in the ways we choose to navigate it Reclamation of autonomy in transport through self-reliance and an intimate…
Back in 2020, I was cycling home when I noticed something in my drivetrain was squeaking and I loved the way the sound synchronized with the movement of my legs. It feels great to cycle, even better to cycle to music, and when the music’s synced with you - pure perfection. That’s when I decided a bike synthesizer needs to exist. So I made an arduino based device with a hall-effect sensor and glued…
To make my website a bit more personal, and help visitors get to know ‘the real me’, here are my top 5 favourite YouTube videos. Presented without comment (for now at least), do with this information what you may. #5 #4 #3 #2 #1
I wrote a bot that replies to people’s tweets in the style of Supa Hot Fire . While the primary goal was dank memes, it also served as a nice introduction to natual language processing and the Twitter API. nothing: I regret that. @AubriasV — Supa Bot Fire (@supabotfire) June 3, 2015 Update : The bot got banned. RIP in peace. How it works When running, the bot gets a stream of tweets…
I wondered what the most efficient way to visit every college in Cambridge in a single tour was. I investigated. I found the answer. TL;DR The shortest tour is: Selwyn → Clare Hall → Robinson → Churchill → Girton → Fitzwilliam → Murray Edwards → St Edmund’s → Lucy Cavendish → Magdalene → St John’s → Sidney Sussex → Jesus → Christ’s → Emmanuel → Downing → Hughes Hall → Homerton → Peterhouse →…
Pixel sorting is an interesting, glitchy effect which selectively orders the pixels in the rows/columns of an image. It was popularized (possibly invented) by artist Kim Asendorf (processing source code here ). The processing script was cryptic and not very hackable, and I felt like something more lightweight was needed, so I wrote my own version in python – more info on GitHub . The earliest…
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This website is generated with wintersmith , a static website generator written on top of Node.js. The source for the website is publicly available on GitHub . It was first hosted on Github pages , then divshot , and now lives on a DigitalOcean VPS and is served via lighttpd . The domain is registered with namecheap and DNS services are provided by CloudFlare . I’ve tried to make it simple,…
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