I love music. I love art. I love coding.

The computer is one of my expressive creative mediums.

AlgoRhythmic Art

True computer art, to me, is when algorithms are used to structure all elements of the piece when the code is executed: shapes, animation, timing, evolution, etc. (See Algorithmic Art for a brief introduction.)

Here are three examples using the exact same algorithm, the only difference between them being their initial shapes and colors.

They are all five minutes long without sound. Given people’s blipvert attention spans I doubt these will be viewed much, but I find them meditative and rewarding, especially towards an end that has something of the magical about it.

As a side note, this was my first coding project with processing. The total program is less than 100 lines of code.

Visualized Music

I’ve always been somewhat synaesthetic, often seeing patterns in my mind when I listen to a piece of music.

It had been a childhood dream of mine to make them real. When I discovered computers as a teenager (back in the rotary phone days) I knew that I had found the medium to make this dream come true.

Since computer art, to me, by definition, means the creation of art through code, these visualizations of music pieces are done entirely through programming.

My first piece of visualized music. This was shown by the Bach Arciv in Leipzig as part of the official 300th birthday celebration of CPE.

This was created for the Speechless Film Festival in Minnesota.

This was commissioned by the Boulder Philharmonic and has been performed live in the concert hall at least twice.

Wallpapers

I think it’s fair to consider computer screen saving wallpaper as a legitimate form of computer art. Though these are not true wallpapers, these are a couple of aesthetic and technical tests I ran to see what would happen. I think they would look lovely on a gallery wall, running forever.

There are more videos at my vimeo page of various tests that are probably not of any interest to anybody.