After the success of the Pyramind mixer event in San Francisco in October, the Manhattan Producers’ Alliance, which is based in New York City, decided that this might be a great thing to showcase over there. Since I was in town anyway for the Spectrum release events, and would have my BCMI equipment with me… Read more »
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Nono CD nominated as one of the ‘best classical music recordings of 2012′ – New York Times
I was very proud and elated to hear just a few weeks ago that the recording we created in New York a while back has been nominated one of the ‘best classical music recordings of 2012′ by the New York Times! Considering that this is the very first album I have engineered and produced, I… Read more »
Your Brain on Music – Expo/Mixer event at Pyramind
On Friday 26th October, ManhatPro West co-sponsored a mixer event with Pyramind Studios, which showcased the latest developments at the intersection of neuroscience and new media, with a particular focus on music and sound. The mini-expo/mixer, curated by myself in collaboration with the inimitable Steve Horowitz, hosted demonstrations from UCSF, UCSD, Sensebridge, Kizoom Labs and… Read more »
Famous for Five Minutes?
Last week, I gave an Ignite Talk. And not just any Ignite talk – this particular event was being held at Google I/O – one of the largest developer conferences of the year, in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. Walking into the room, which could easily have housed a major team sporting event, I noticed… Read more »
Back to the Drawing Board – 04/29
I have been working for the past few months on a new film project – “Mobile Moments”, directed by British filmmaker Joanne Ball. This is a study in minimalism if ever there was one. The female protagonist is the only person we see on camera. The style is confessional, similar to an online diary that… Read more »
BCMI PROJECT – Update 04/22/12
I am currently a little over half way through building a training model for our BCMI (Brain Computer Music Interface) project, and it’s no picnic. The goal is to select 50 2-minute excerpts of piano music in order to build an experimental model for classification by emotional signature. This will eventually be used as the… Read more »