1. EsMadrid TV spots
Sound Design, Music Composition
I composed three sound pieces for 3 as-yet-unaired TV spots of the new Madrid-based channel, esMadrid.
2. UCB TV Soundtracks
Sound Design, Music Composition
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The UCB TV network is a closed broadcast channel that airs in the most prominent Benetton stores throughout the world. I was commissioned to create 3 abstract sound pieces for the video work that my colleagues Marco Mucig and Ries Straver produced.
3. Tuned Stairs
Sound Design, Installation Design
The Tuned Stairs project is a playful musical experience conceived for the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The installation turns a stairway of the Centre into a musical instrument. Each step plays a metallophone note as the visitor steps on it. Visitors create their own musical composition according to how they go up or down the stairs.
The Tuned Stairs were a part of the FABRICA: Les Yeux Ouverts exhibition in display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris throughout October and November 2006. It was developed in collaboration with Andy Cameron, Daniel Hirschmann, Hansi Raber and Carlo Zoratti.
You can read some press about it here and here.
Video edited by Marco Mucig.
4. Remote
Sound Design, Interaction Design, Installation Design
Remote is a visual and musical work based on real time and near real time input from global webcams. The system downloads images from webcam feeds physically located around the world and uses the resulting images to control audio sequences composed for the system. By selecting web cams in real time and changing their loop lengths, the viewer can compose sound using web cams from around the world.
Remote was developed in collaboration with Oriol Ferrer Mesia, Andy Cameron and Daniel Hirschmann. It was recently shown as part of the I've been Waiting for You exhibition in Seoul, South Korea.
5. The Internet Black Holes
Interaction Design, Web Design
On November 7 2006 the France based NGO Reporters without Borders organized a one day manifestation against censure in the Internet. This act consisted of both "real world" protests and a website that for one day let people express their disregard for censorship.
I was commissioned by RSF to build two web applications and their enclosing site. First there's an interactive map that lets people vote symbolically against censorship in one of the 13 countries that as of today repress free speech in the web. Second, there's a voice recorder where people from all over the world left (its closed now) short messages to be delivered afterwards to Mr. Jerry Yang, one of Yahoo's co-founders (Yahoo has helped China in monitoring and censoring web traffic).
The website was meant to live for only one day, but RSF will leave the interactive map going for a while (the voice recorder is no more). You can read some of the press coverage here and here.
6. 40 Years in 40 Seconds
For the celebration of the 40 years of United Colors of Benetton, a magnificent video was made by my good friend Juan Ospina where the 40 years are summed up in 40 seconds. I was commissioned by Fabrica to create a musical piece that represented the energy and the dynamic nature of these years (with a nice ending).
7. Song a Day
In the middle of the confusion and the mist that is free time my good friend Andy Smith and I decided to make a wager: for every day of the week we would have to post a writing on his blog, and I would have to create a "song" (in the loosest of terms). In the end, what started as an excuse for creativity became an output for a lot of good work and the possibility of an album in the very near future.
8. This Hell
This Hell was a performance made in collaboration with Ries Straver for the Tende a Inifnito exhibition in the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, Italy. We created an ironic audio-visual experience in which an absurd narrative was backed by a soundtrack generated algorithmically by interpreting the position of bodies in front of a camera (Computer Vision as they call it).
9. Orbit
Sound Design, Interaction Design, Web Design
As a part of the Benettonplay project (a site promoting creative, non-violent games sponsored by Benetton) I was asked to create a Flash-based web game that allowed users to play with sound and music. I created in turn a loop-based sequencer that is visualized in a circular fashion. Kind of like planets and their orbits. The users compositions can also be saved and are displayed in a Gallery where all the compositions are ranked by the users. You can read some press about it here.
10. Guitar Looper
Sound Design, Music Composition, Performance
This is a piece of software I developed in MAX / MSP that allows me to perform individually by recording and looping (with different parameters) a guitar performance. I performed this alongside Jan Kurth in Milano, Italy last year as a part of some fashion event happening there. The audio pieces shown here have all been performed live and have no post-production whatsoever.
11. Super Uccio
Sound Design, Music Composition
Series of short music compositions for a site of kid-oriented flash games.
12. Pulse
Sound Design, Installation Design
Pulse is an interactive sound art piece created for the 2004 Design and Technology Show. The installation is made up of two main parts: a home-made instrument built out of assorted hardware parts, and an interactive floor. The instrument consists of 16 steel pipes of different lengths, with a tensed nylon string running through each of the pipes. The resultant sound is a mix of the percussive nature of the pipes with the hum of a string being struck dozens of times per second, resonating inside the steel pipes. The floor - a grid of 64 switches (8 x 8) hidden underneath vinyl tiles - activate the motors that strike the pipes.
The installation creates a collective instrument based on the walking patterns of the crowd. The more people, the richer the melodies created. The complete piece measures 8' x 8' in the floor, and 7' x 7' in the wall.