The animation and soundtrack are algorithmically generated, mostly composed from trigonometry functions. Both are created from a single program and run in real time at 60 fps. No random functions are used.

Created using OpenGL in Processing and PureData.

Ambient sound installation with 4 cassette players playing 8 tracks spread across 20 speakers by 8 mics and numerous feedback loops, powered by 8 homemade amps and 8 homemade preamps.

Collaboration with Nik Hanselmann.

In progress…

using an FFT analysis

As a sort of “end of the year closet cleaning”, I’ve decided to give away mp3s of all the music I’ve released since 2004. Click on “Continue reading” to start downloading. 

nicklally:
Beat Cannon
34min DJ mix
Released: 2006
cocoa005
mixed and produced by nick lally

Tracklist:
Intro
Switch “A Bit Patchy”
Spank Rock “Put That P**** On Me” (Diplo Tonite Remix)
Essential Logic “Brute Fury”
Amadou & Mariam “La Réalité”
Emynd “He Kissed Me”
DJ Jonny Blaze “Miss A (Sneeze Song)”
Mirah vs. Digitalism “Pollenlight” (nicklally Blend)
Eats Tapes “Supreme Master”
Nelly Furtado feat. Lil’ Wayne “Maneater” (Remix)
The Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing”
Diana Ross & The Supremes “Baby Love”
Chamillionaire “Ridin’”
Scarlet Fever “Peanut Butta” (nicklally Remix)
Afrika Bambaataa “Planet Rock”
High Powered Boys “Up Down”
Gun’s N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Bonde de Role “Melo Do Tabaco” (A-Trak Remix)
Curtis Vodka “Shoulder Bounce”
Low Budget “Watchooknowaboutthis”

DOWNLOAD (32mb, zipped mp3)

 
That’s Ms. Werewolf to You:
Let’s Get Personal
Released: 2005
cocoa003
music and production by nick lally, lyrics and vocals by monica and kitt

01. Comfortable Tonight 2:45
02. Steal Your Groceries 2:01
03. David C. 2:55
04. Not Sleeping 2:05

DOWNLOAD (11.2mb, zipped mp3s) 

 

Maple Rabbit:
Let’s Be Honest
www.myspace.com/maplerabbit
Released: 2007
cocoa007
produced by nick lally

01. $2.50 3:15
02. One-Way 3:07
03. September 3:23
04. Lead Pipe 2:01
05. Gemini 2:18
06. Greys Ferry 3:24
07. FMBS 2:34
08. Space Ghost 3:37

DOWNLOAD (34.4mb, zipped mp3s)
 

 

The Snow Fairies:
Pop the Question!
www.thesnowfairies.com
Released: 2004
cocoa001

01. The Life of a Total Square 2:11
02. Take Your Clothes Off 2:27
03. Nobody’s Calling 2:12
04. Sentimental Heart (nicklally remix) 3:41

DOWNLOAD (10.3mb, zipped mp3s)

Maple Rabbit:
LoveLoveDeathDeathFunFun
www.myspace.com/maplerabbit
Released: 2006
cocoa004
produced by nick lally

01. Paper Hearts 4:47
02. Scarf Song 4:21
03. Suburbs 3:52
04. Boat Song 2:56
05. Apocalypse 2:39
06. Picture Day 1:46

DOWNLOAD (33.4mb, zipped mp3s)

 

Thieves and nicklally:
Cold As Ice, Like This
65min DJ mix
Released: 2007
mixed and produced by Thieves and nick lally

Tracklist, Part I (nicklally):
Mamas & The Papas “California Dreamin’”
Dirtbag ft. Monica “I Aint Trying To Hear It”
Architecture in Helsinki “Heart It Races (Trizzy’s Rusty Tin Can Mix)”
Pitbull “Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera)”
Field Mob ft. Ciara “So What”
Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. “My Love”
XXXchange “Our Love”
A-Trak “Feeling For The Pack”
Rod Lee “Dance A Little Bit”
Blow “Hock It (nicklally edit)”
Kano “I’m Ready”
Prince Paul “Booty Clap”
Lil’ Texas “2 Da Left…”
Edu K “Hot Mama (Sinden Remix)”
Mahala Raï Banda “Mahalageasca (Felix B Jazzhouse Dub)”
Mylo “Otto’s Journey”
Ying Yang Twins ft. Pitbull “Shake (acapella)
George Kranz “Din Daa Daa”
Frankie Smith “Double Dutch Bus”
Hawkeye “Still Jivin’”

Tracklist, Part II (Thieves):
Rihanna “Don’t Stop The Music”
Sneaky Sound System “Hot”
Bass Patrol “Rock This Planet”
Chin Chin “Appetite (Chicken Lips remix)”
Nelly Furtado “Do It”
Modjo “Lady”
Michael Jackson “PYT”
Diplo “Work Is Never Over”
Armand Van Helden “I Want Your Soul”
Mr. Hudson and the Library “Ask The DJ (Sinden/Count of Monte Cristal remix)”
We Don’t Give a Fuck “Sinden and the Count of Monte Cristal”
Surkin “Radio Fireworks”
Bonnie Tyler “Total Eclipse of the Heart (Thieves Edit)”
The Angels “My Boyfriend’s Back (Thieves Edit)”
DJ Technics “Mister Postman”
Ghosttown DJs “My Boo”
Justice “We Are Your Friends (Scottie B Remix)”
Basement Jaxx “Lights Go Down”

DOWNLOAD (89.3mb, zipped mp3s)

 

nicklally and Dmoefunk:
Snacks!
50min DJ mix
Released: 2007
cocoa006
mixed and produced by Dmoefunk and nick lally

Tracklist:
Intro
B-Legit “Gotta Buy Your Dope From Us”
Rufus Thomas “Breakdown, Pt.2”
Keak Da Sneak “Super Hyphie”
Dixie Cups “Iko Iko”
Temptations “My Girl”
Zhane “Hey Mr. DJ”
Cody Chesnutt “Boylife In America”
Dzihan & Kamien “Stiff Jazz”
Skee-lo “I wish” (acapella)
Fresh Prince “Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme Song”
Sun Ra “Nuclear War”
Ratatat “Lex”
Too Short “Keep Bouncin” (instrumental)
Janet Jackson “Nasty Boys” (acapella)
Dizzee Rascal “Fix Up Look Sharp”
Busta Rhymes “Woohaa” (acapella)
Toto “Africa”
Eric B. & Rakim “I Know You Got Soul”
Dexy’s Midnight Runners “Come On Eileen”
Hexstatic “Bass Invader”
The Bangels “Walk Like An Egyptian”
Jade “Don’t Walk Away”
The Sequence “Funk You Up”
Nsync “Stayin Alive” (acapella)
Spankrock “Touch Me” (instrumental)
Prodigy “Poison”
Dolly Parton “Jolene”
E-40 “Tell Me When To Go” (instrumental)
Syl Johnson “Different Strokes”
Joe Bataan “It’s A Good Feeling (Riot)”
Plump DJs
Freezpop “Parlez Vous Freezpop”
Elton John “Rocket Man”
Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc.”
John Smith “Any Time”
Big Boi “Kryptonite” (acapella)
Luke “Head Tonight” (instrumental)
Roxanne Shante “Wack It”
Low Deep “Get Set” (nicklally edit)
Pepe Deluxe “Vamos Muchachos!”
Creedence Clearwater R “Green River”
DJ Assault “Yo Relatives”
The Isley Brothers “Who’s That Lady”
Four Tet “No More Mosquitos”
DJ Nehpets “Baddest DJ”
Buraka Som Sistema “Yah!”
Tarika “Cocorico”
The Clash “Mustapha Dance”
Fergie “Fergalicious” (acapella)
Kings Of Convenience “I’d Rather Dance With You”
Underworld “Born Slippy”
Spectrum 311 “Lying Eyes” (Oscar Fullone Mix)
Chemical Brothers “Hoops”
Quantum Leap Theme Song
Big Money (white label)
Dire Straights “Money For Nothing”
The Kinks “You Really Got Me”
Metallica “Fade to Black”
Fanny Pack “Do It To It”
Bjork “Hyperballad” (Disco Sync Mix)
Fresh Kid Ice “Freak ‘Em Down”
DJ Snoopy & Lil Mama “Hand Clap”
Peter Bjorn & John “Young Folks”
The Blow “Parenthesis”
Ananda Shankar “Streets of Calcutta”
Wanda Jackson “Tunnel of Love”

DOWNLOAD (50.2mb, zipped mp3) 

 

nicklally:
graydays
41min DJ mix
Released: 2006
mixed and produced by nick lally

Tracklist:
Growing “Onement”
Ash Ra Tempel “Liebe”
Godspeed You Black Emperor! “East Hastings”
Curtis Mayfield “Underground”
Liquid Liquid “Cavern”
E*vax “What We Meant”
Mirah/Ginger Takahashi “Pure”
Cannonball Adderly Quintet “Tensity”
Sabu Martinez “My Cristina”
The Books “A True Story of a Story of True Love”
The Microphones “III.Universe”
Four Tet “Hands”
Growing “Primitive Associations / Great Mass Above”
David Axelrod “The Human Abstract”
Squarepusher “My Sound”
Donovan “Get Thy Bearings”
Can “Mushroom”
Can “Vitamin C”
Gang Gang Dance “God’s Money III”
Make A Rising “Song For Dead Nickie”
Menomena “The Ladder”
Explosions In The Sky “A Song For Our Fathers”

DOWNLOAD (41.2mb, zipped mp3)

 

My Compass Spins:
Sick in the City
Released: 2005
cocoa002
Produced by nick lally

01. Anything Else 3:54
02. A House that Feels like Home 3:53
03. A Wish for Days 5:15
04. Sick in the Dark 3:43
05. The House Exhales 3:42
06. The City is Burning 5:51

DOWNLOAD (24.1mb, zipped mp3s)

In this program, each bubble has a note (in C major) associated with it. When a silhouette in the video feed overlaps with the bubble, the note is sent to an audio program (Reason, in this case) in the form of a midi note. The bubbles can be moved left and right using an Arduino equipped with an accelerometer.

Processing Code

Similar to the above, but now two video feeds are incorporated. Now bubbles can only be played if they overlap with red sections of the video. Red sections are created when two silhouettes from separate video feeds overlap, so cooperation between people in the two video feeds is necessary to create notes. 

Processing Code

Both these programs build on the programs from my previous two posts. 

In this project, people in two separate rooms are videotaped. The two video feeds are fed through Processing, converted into silhouettes and superimposed over each other. Both rooms receive the same projection of the superimposed silhouettes. When silhouettes from the two rooms overlap, the overlapped area turns red and a midi note is sent to an external audio program (Reason, in this case).

The video feeds are initialized using a background subtraction technique, so only new objects in the space (ie: people) are fed back as silhouettes. The program sends midi notes using the RWMidi library. The program contains four different modes, some in which participants hear the same sounds, some in which they hear different sounds. All notes are currently in the C major scale. 

My version sounds like this (all sounds can be modulated in the sound program you choose):

Processing Code

One of my projects for last week’s 24h Thesis was this noise-generating box. It has two speakers, four buttons and two potentiometers mounted on a cardboard box and connected together with a breadboard and an Arduino. Each button has a different sound, which can be modulated with the two potentiometers. It sounds like this: 

I’m still learning how to play it!

Arduino Code