During the years I’ve developed several projects that promote an interaction with the user. Through both audio and visual programming, and external devices such as cameras and sensors, I’ve created different workflows that aim to bridge the gap between the art piece and the spectator, resulting in an effective and novel way to think about the creative process.

> Generative Jam (2020)

Musical creation can be a hard and demanding process. When making songs on our own, we often feel stuck due to creative block, grasping for anything that brings some variation to the same old loops.
In this regard, playing with someone else can be a much more enriching experience, which often leads to unexpected and innovative performances, resulting from the reciprocal interchange of musical ideas between the two (or more) musicians. However, it is often difficult to gather our musician friends due to incompatible schedules, different motivations, and other external factors.
For this project I intend to devise a simple program that acts as an intermediary between these two forms of musical creation. Using computer audition, the algorithm will detect the notes played by the performer during an initial input, and generate a random arpeggio and bassline based on the same notes (while also providing a simple beat). With this I intend to develop a simple and intuitive platform to bring some unexpectedness and innovation to one’s individual music creation process, aiming to somewhat mimic the interaction of musicians during a ‘jam session’.

> Insomnia (2020)

In recent years, the importance of mental health has been a very mediatic topic in our society. The high-paced lives we lead in this new millennium has contributed to more cases of depression and anxiety across all generations.
Personally, I have dealt with anxiety crises for as long as I can remember, and one of the many unfortunate drawbacks of this is insomnia. There are nights when my brain cannot seem to turn off a very hectic and high-speed array of moving thoughts that, while tiring, don’t allow you to rest.
For this project, I thought it would be interesting to visually represent what goes through my head during this state of anxiety/insomnia, and use computer vision to interactively show the user how tiring and frustrating it can be to deal with these thoughts while trying to rest.

> Heartstrings (2020)

Can shared performance really connect people? To test this, we devised an installation that tracked each participants’ heartbeats while they performed together, in order to measure any degree of synchronization. My task was to devise simple yet engaging instruments that integrated well into one another. I built two custom instruments in Pure Data, and adapted them to mobile devices through the app MobMuPlat.

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