New Project: The Floppy Bunch

I have been making 8-bit music with Jeremy Murphy. Our setup includes an NES controlled by MIDI, a Commodore 64, MPC1000, Casio keyboards, Kaoss Pad, Microkorg, Game Boy played with a PS/2 keyboard... It allows us to create multilayered electronic music and the indeterminate setup helps to keep our minds fresh by moving us away from our intentions and balancing us a little more methodologically. The highly technical/wired nature of this project has gotten me into circuit-bending and algorithmic programming while also forcing me to contemplate interfaces and cyborg design on a deeper level. Interesting concepts arise as I begin to work on a much more intimate level with the machine. Automation holds much more meaning now as I am literally touching the circuit board and controlling the inner body of the device, making it move in time with a crowded room of wires and plugs. It's actually crazy to think of the possibilities when you start programming or bending music... In that way it is good that I am working on this project with a computer programmer, except I sometimes fear the end result will be what happened to that guy in the movie Pi.

CHECK IT OUT: http://www.myspace.com/thefloppybunch