An instrument/installation that plays a number of fragments of prayer requests about COVID-19 that people have uploaded to YouTube. The number of fragments is the number of people who died the previous day in America (in the database I am using this is called the ‘deathIncrease’).

A trampoline-based portable synthesizer for making noise in the woods alone. Built as part of my research for my position as Game Designer in Residence at MICA Game Lab.

Currents is an installation and performance built from hundreds of discarded computer fans. They are programmed to recreate the wind levels of other locations from around the world. It is a meditation on the role that technology has on our lives; how it is used to connect the world, how much importance we place on these connections yet how easily we discard the very objects that connect us.
2014, Edinburgh Art Festival, Southbank Centre London, and Glasgow Concert Halls
Currents was awarded the British Composer Award for Sonic Art in 2014.

Loosely based on the 12th century Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by the Islamic engineer Al-Jazari, this project was focused on the design and development of three experimental sonic objects and musical instruments that each took a conceptual limitation to a logical conclusion, thereby raising questions about the place of digital media, sound, and technology in our lives.
Volume 1 is a rhythm generator which changes patterns every day. It uses a sound library that was itself recorded in a single day. The previous day’s patterns will never be recreated.
Volume 2 is a GPS-based granular synthesizer. It will sound different depending on where it is in the world, as most of the parameters are set by the GPS data.
Volume 3 is a listening device which slowly, but permanently, destroys the sound that it contains. The only copy of the recording is in this device, so each time it is played it is simultaneously lost forever.
The project is fully open source, conceptually and technically. Each volume is accompanied by an essay detailing the idea behind the design, as well as a full set of technical resources for building your own.