PhD Thesis is Online

Amergent Music: behavior and becoming in technoetic & media arts was accepted by my examiners at the University of Plymouth, UK. I owe ...

‘Pac-Man Pop Music’ Chapter Available as PDF

My chapter ‘The Composition-Instrument: emergence, improvisation and interaction in games and new media’ appeared in the book From ...

Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio

Call for Papers: The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio Deadline for Proposals: 1 April 2011 The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio is ...

Retired research blog: Amergent Music

Writings on music and interaction for digital art, entertainment, and communications. I earned my PhD through the Planetary Collegium at the ...

Technoetic Arts 7.1

(originally published July 2009) I wrote a paper "Dérive en Mille Sons" for the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. It has ...

Sanding

I'm currently experimenting with some guitar recordings I made with an EBow. The music is produced with two long drones that are fed through a ...

Can Games Be Art?

EXCERPT: Norbert Herber, a Lecturer in the IU Telecommunications Department who has worked as a sound designer and composer for video games, ...

First-, Second-, & Third-order Cybernetics for Music and Mediated Interaction

Implicitly or explicitly, Cybernetics plays a role in works of Experimental, Ambient, and Generative music. This talk will introduce Amergent ...

PhD Thesis Progress (in IOGraph)

The full text of my PhD thesis is TOP SECRET until the entire thing is complete and the viva voce has been passed. But there is progress ...

Documentation: Sound Garden 2009

For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world ...