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Supernatural Sound Talk @ UCSB

Joshua Dickinson, October 24, 2022 from mat.ucsb on Vimeo.

Art Code

Selected Algorithmic Drawing Experiments

For the past many years I’ve tinkered with various algorithms to take a color photograph and convert it into a line drawing. Unlike other “style transfer” or pencil effects, these are actually made up of individual strokes and can therefore be drawn with a pen plotter or similar device. Some of the more advanced versions even contain simple logic for hatching and cross-hatching in order to produce shading in a technique similar to a real human artist. Thus far, I’ve only used heuristic computer vision approaches, however I hope to one day make use of a bit of machine learning to improve the results aesthetically.

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Interview Music

Interview with BT for “Tails” Reverb

We were honored to be interviewed alongside BT by Justin Colletti of SonicScoop! Together we discuss the origins of Tails, reverb as a compositional tool, medieval music, BT’s original concept for the plugin, and how he uses it creatively. Toward the end of the video we also drop a few surprises related to future projects.

Special thanks to Plugin Alliance for making this happen!

Art Interview

Interview with Ted’s Little Dream

For our ongoing series of interviews through Static Attraction, we talk art and design with Ted Chin, better known by his handle “Ted’s Little Dream.” He was chosen as the 2021 Photoshop splash screen cover artist so it was extremely fun hearing his story about how that happened, as well as his thoughts about the creative community, copyright, and NFTs.

DSP Music

Silo Spatial Granulator

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I spent much of 2020 working on what would eventually become Silo. The project was an attempt to design a single instrument capable of creating the type of complex soundscapes used by composers such as Curtis Roads and Horacio Vaggione. While no simple effect will ever be capable of the meticulous design of such works, Silo’s unique focus on per-grain control of spatial position and reverb amount does seem to get closer to the heart of this musical style, and has now become a popular tool for many modern sound designers. It was a pleasure working with the graphic designer Daniel Glaser, who created the interface and visual concept.

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Interview

Interview with Dr. Barry Schwartz

For our ongoing series of interviews through Static Attraction, we talk human nature and design with Dr. Barry Schwartz, a psychologist and public intellectual famous for his research in social theory regarding such topics as “the paradox of choice.”

Interview

Interview with architect Marco Arredondo

For our ongoing series of interviews through Static Attraction, we talk architecture and design with Marco Arredondo.