project listing - Design
Idea Sketch
This project has very simple task: build a tool for innovators, which allows them to do their own idea generation, navigating their own thoughts and connections between words and groupings of words. The use of this tool is easy and harmless:
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Start by typing a few keywords of influence into your workspace. You just start with a few, and then move on to step two.
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Now, you begin free flowing. Like a prisoner escaping prison, let the tunnel reveal connected pieces of ideas that are connected in whatever type of linear thought you like.
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As you begin typing words, the tool begins interrogating you, placing words into the foreground that you've already given it. The tool also does some simple searching to a larger community for words associated with that word you may not be familiar with.
Placed side by side to your mind's words, new idea space is created. Perhaps even idea space already established, a recursion of thought begins. Perhaps paradoxes of thought will even arrive, where a sense of deja-vu and the potential deadly roadblock of thought appear. This at this point, any of the previous words can be rearranged, grouped with other idea spaces saved from previous sessions, further queries to outside sources can be generated. The goal is a tool that is intelligent in its organization of your thought, so that your memory and your associations can be augmented and further paths of thought can be explored.
Currently, this program is not standalone. I hope to upload a web version of this as soon as possible.
I more detailed description and text regarding this project is available here.
Key Visualizer
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One of my older pieces, the Key Visualizer was a tactile tool for exploring and examining tonal space, primarily that of an improvisational musician. It was built to facilitate one as they seek to perform and interpret jazz music, as well as other forms of improvisational works.
tags: design improvisation key music scale tonal tool
Social Pedagogy Instrument
This project was developed with Jon Kircherr and Michael Horan, as a collaboration at ITP, 2005.
The purpose of this project is to create a multiple-user interface for learning and exploring western music concepts, without the overhead of learning technical specifications of a classic instrument. Secondly, to create an instrument which needs more than one person to play, thereby shifting roles and responsibilities from standard scenarios of performance. Rather than one person striving to master a difficult instrument, this tool allows six users to distribute the complexities and concepts of music into manageable parts. This allows each person the opportunity to understand their individual role in relation to the entire group.