two works inspired by deep sea diving filtered through 8bit game audio.

these six recording were rendered from my first day win in-ear binaural microphones. the mics were worn throughout the day, which was later cut into these six moments. no processing was done to the sound, however in cases there are edits.

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recorded entering a movie theatre, purchasing a ticket through an atm, riding the escalator to the concession and then into the movie. i turned the mics off during the show, but turned them back on once it was finished and recorded my exit.

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walking through the streets of manhattan from the west side, to my home in nolita where i picked up my dog, then across housten and over to the east village. i came back home via bowery. this file has a number of edits as i seemed to recall the walk out of order in retrospect.

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while waiting for a movie to start, i spent some time browsing for books. this recording cuts the experience of two stores - strand, a used book store on 12th, and barnes and noble on astor - into a mesh of conflicting atmospheres. one much quieter than the other.

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later in the evening, in brooklyn beneath the manhatten bridge, some friends were preparing a performance as part of the dumbo festival. i captured some of the trains going over the bridge and also a bit of walking around the festival.

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on the way to the dumbo festival, i rode the f train from broadway-lafayette. i've editted out some of the ride, and included part of the long walk underground at the york street station. there was a slight wind all night, which might have been picked up by the mics.

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in the afternoon i stopped at the met grocer to purchase food for dinner. no one seemed to mind the in-ear mics, as they look identical to ear-buds. there is such a barrage of sound at checkout that i hadn't noticed before i listened to this recording.

a series of compositions dealing with failure, data sets, image to sound translations, and granular synthesis. underscore was submitted to the microsound.org mcdonna project.

three compositions done in collaboration with Laidie Magenta. all scores are her original artwork, and function as visual representations of the sound art. score_2 lays on top of score_1, and score_3 lays on top of score_2 and score_1.

The accompanying sound art is layered in the same fashion. the scores have been interpreted both linearly and spatially.

during the winter holiday 2004, i spent a week traveling through northern italy and switzerland. there are six sound recordings made with in-ear binaural microphones and a minidisc recorder. a number of photographs were taken by mobile phone. it was either grey or raining during the trip.

the sound of rain on an umbrella and slush underfoot can be heard in 'rain_funicolare'. children playing with swans was recorded for 'lugano_park'. there is also a long recording 'peggy_gallery' inside the venice guggenheim on a crowded friday afternoon.

early works. steam appears on a cd-rom of steam engine locomotives.

during the month of october, 2003, i collaborated with ei arakawa, producing improvised sound over his performance art. the performances were held at the kenny schachter conTEMPorary gallery in new york, as part of the shadow exhibition.

these files are really just the scraps that had accumulated after producing the three compositions for the layer project. i couldn't let them go, gathered them together and am presenting them here as a collection of sound points.

adrumming is composed entirely of processed samples recorded during a 30 minute drumming session. dogpatch is a remix of the original composition and was performed at the sequence concert of tape music at the university of buffalo.

caution. requires a fast processor. no sound component.

a collaboration with frank miller and aya karpinska. after viewing frank's solo exhibit 'reliquary of desire' at the cepa gallery in buffalo, ny, i approached frank with a proposal to convert his photographs into an online exhibition. he agreed, and i enlisted aya to read lines from poetry i composed while building the interface to franks images.

these two compositions are the result of feeding two different audio streams through the same algorithm.

an interactive sound field with a focus on creating groups of sound points and then establishing attractions among those groups.

the moon is made of it.

April 6, 2005, Dean Robbins inaugurates UPSTATE: an institute for city and regional design, a new branch of the Syracuse University School of Architecture, with the conference UPSTATE: downtown - Syracuse and the Shrinking City. A distinguished group of architects, landscape architects, and planners from across the nation examine the ways design can help revitalize Syracuse and other cities that have experienced disinvestment and population decline.

Nick Alexander performs the Nullsound Installation city | suburb | transit, a 12 channel soundscape, as the main event of the conference reception.

The recording upstate.mp3 is a stereo mix of a 70 minute slice of the installation. The remaining tracks are various mixes of the source material used in constructing the soundscape.

i spent a few days in tokyo, may 2004. these recordings were made with in-ear binaural mics. there are a few recordings taken at the n_ext exhibit at icc, one at a warszawa show, another at the 109 dept store, and several in a pachinko parlor. the rest i gathered while walking about.

text based work. each recording composed entirely of voice samples. isTheWeakLink is my first composition, and LeoTheArtist is still my favorite, despite it's clandestine origins.