Flame Keepersfebruary, 2021

Flame Keepers is a perpetual music installation based on Jakub Ciupinski's concept and design, built by Ryan Rose and Avneesh Sarwate.

Every week, a composer is sponsored by Metropolis Ensemble to contribute compositions to the installation. After uploading a composition, the composer must wait seven hours to upload another. Once able, if the composer does not upload a composition after seven hours Flame Keepers will insert a randomly selected composition from its archives, and the seven hour lockout begins again.

chronophonicsjuly, 2020

Chronophonics is an online installation created by Ryan Rose, Alex Resende, and Avneesh Sarwate. Inspired by online art experiences like Reddit's r/place, chronophonics is a series of networked musical interfaces where visitors can make changes to the music and submit those changes to the shared history of the interface. Each interface allows visitors to traverse the history of the canvas and see other's changes. Animations running in the background of each canvas are reactive to the music being created, and change along with the music as visitors traverse the history of a canvas.

The amount of change able to be contributed to a musical canvas at once is limited to a certain number of actions, with a countdown timer displaying when additional actions are permitted. An interface will sometimes constrain actions—like a virtual conductor guiding performers to play a score. Scrolling through the history reveals the arcs of the conductor's influence.

shimimay, 2019

Shimi is a robotic musical companion built at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. Shimi explores how music and gesture can be used to express emotion in low degree-of-freedom robots. Shimi features 5 Dynamixel motors is controlled via an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 and an extensible python codebase.

recorder botaugust, 2018

An autonomous recorder player with solenoid fingers, motorized expressive movements, and real human hair. Built with Richard Savery and Zach Kondak.

SoundCageaugust, 2018

A closet-sized tangible experience that encourages visitors to explore strings extending from sensor packages mounted in a PVC frame to create sound.

twittheardecember, 2017

An audio interface that brings Twitter to the virtual personal assistant Amazon Alexa. Its goal is to encode information about a tweet in musical phrase for a user to listen to, and decide whether or not to save the tweet to read on a visual interface later.