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"And so the arts are encroaching upon one another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental."
--Wassily Kandinsky
MUSIC PORTFOLIO
Following is an assorted collection of recent art created by DISIS students and faculty:
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
DISIS fosters collaborations with various departments, institutions and entities. As a result, a vast majority of research that takes place at DISIS is collaborative in nature. Following terms are used to describe DISIS role:
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PI (Principal Investigator) for projects that originated in DISIS |
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Co-PI (co-Principal Investigator) in projects where main authorship is shared among several entities |
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Senior Personnel where DISIS was a paid contributor to an outside project |
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Collaborator where DISIS was an academic contributor to an outside project |
Following is a list of recent research at DISIS:
disis.aka.wiiremote (PI, Fall 2008)
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Extending aka.wiiremote Max/MSP external to support Nintendo Wii Fit |
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DOWNLOAD |
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 Neverball, Wii Fit, and Max demo |
disis_munger~ (PI, Fall 2007-2008)
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Porting and enhancement of the munger~ real-time granular synthesis object from Dan Trueman's PErCoLate Max/MSP library |
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Use of flext toolkit to produce a platform-agnostic Max/Pd source code |
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Presented at ICMC 2007 |
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DOWNLOAD |
DREAM: A Discrete REconfigurable Aural Matrix (PI, Fall 2006-2010)
(formerly known as Aural Matrix Haptic Display Interface or AMHDI)
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Use of large speaker arrays for sonification of data |
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Foundation for an Aural Painting artistic genre |
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2 undergraduate summer assistantships |
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1 undergraduate summer assistantship via the VT REU program |
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$32,000 CLAHS Dean's Grant (Fall 2006) |
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$20,000 ISCE Summer Scholars Grant (Summer 2007) |
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Publication of preliminary findings in ICMC 2008 proceedings |
Drummer Game Project (Co-PI, Summer 2010)
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$150,000 EAGER grant by the National Science Foundation |
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Collaboration among computer Science, Music, and Art faculty and students |
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Design of a game/performance/learning hybrid platform |
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Use of Chinese culture and terracotta warriors to explore intersections among history, culture, gaming, learning, strategy, and music performance |
ICTAS Lobby Installation (Co-PI, Summer 2009)
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$20,000 commission by Virginia Tech ICTAS for an interactive aural sculpture art installation |
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Engaged 3 Faculty across Art and Music |
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Secured 1 undergraduate summer assistantship |
Intelligent Sustainable Space (PI, Spring 2008-2009)
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The design of virtual interactive tour populated with interactive multimedia art installations for a new Wachovia/Wake-Forest space |
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$14,200 sponsored by Wake-Forest for the phase 1 |
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$10,000 for phase 2 (physical prototyping) sponsored through VT ISCE/ICTAS partnership |
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Foundation for a book chapter and other publications |
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Project currently in physical prototyping phase |
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 Virtual Prototyping (Phase I) In-Browser Demo |
Interactive Taiji (PI, Fall 2008-2009)
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The design of a gaming platform using Taiji for K-12 students with focus on students' ability to maintain focus |
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$5,000 seed funds awarded by the VT Education Enhancement Grant (Arts Initiative) |
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Use of Wii Fit platform |
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Collaboration with regional public schools |
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Project currently in pilot testing phase |
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PR video |
L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
(PI, Summer 2009-present)
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World's first Linux-powered laptop orchestra |
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Received $50,000 in internal support and external sponsorships |
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VT Stakeholders include Arts Initiative, CCTAD, CEUT, CLAHS, CTEG, DISIS, ICTAS, ISCE, IT, Music, and SOE |
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External sponsors include MSI Computer, Renoise Inc., Roland Corp., and Sweetwater |
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Focus on the design and development of custom hardware, supporting software, and optimization of the Linux platform |
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Secured 4 undergraduate summer research assistantships |
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Additional 2 assistantships through NSF's Research Experience for the Undergraduates |
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L2Ork Website |
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L2Ork Instructables |
µ (mu) Max-Unity3D Interoperability Toolkit
(PI, Spring 2008)
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Library providing easy interfacing between Max/MSP/Jitter and Unity3D |
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Abilty to import Jitter textures into Unity3D (e.g. real-time camera feeds) |
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Use of C# and C |
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Version 1.0 completed in Summer 2008 |
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DOWNLOAD |
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Tech demo |
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  High resolution tech demo (106MB) |
Networked Ensemble (Collaborator, Fall 2007-2009)
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Ensemble performance and coordination using network resources |
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$975,978 (Singapore currency) awarded to the National University of Singapore |
Recontextualizing Contemporary Multimedia Kiosk Paradigm Using Sustainable Touchless Gesture Interface (PI, Fall 2007-2008)
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Use of a proximity sensor array in conjunction with gesture tracking software |
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Focus on sustainable design |
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Prototyping phase complete |
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Basis for two creative interactive multimedia installations: |
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community |
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heads will roll |
Revo:oveR (Co-PI, Spring 2006-2008)
SMILE Project (Senior Personnel, Spring 2007-2008)
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Science and Mathematics Inclusive Learning Engagement program |
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Targets underrepresented population of the Appalachian region by building of creative metaphors to facilitate learning |
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6 undergraduate summer assistantships |
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$2,000 internal grant |
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$20,000 ISCE Summer Scholars Grant (Summer 2007) |
Sonification Project (Co-PI, Summer 2008, Summer 2009)
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Research into use of sonification in IDEs |
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Project in part sponsored by the NSF's Research Experience for the Undergraduates (2008, 2009) |
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1 Publication to the IEEE's ICPC |
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Foundation for one Masters thesis in HCI |
Summer Camp (2008-present)
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A 4-day intensive music technology course for the middle and high school students participating in the Music Dept. annual Summer Band Camp |
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Covers acoustics, psychoacoustics, composition, recording, and production |
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Students participate in group compositional exercises using sound editing software |
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2009 Final Group Projects |
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Class 1 |
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Class 2 |
Sustainable Silent Computing (PI, Spring 2007-2008)
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Preliminary study used as the foundation for building the DISIS infrastructure |
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Low power consumption Workstations that use highly efficient PSUs |
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Silent air-cooled machines using a single <1200 RPM fan |
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Systems offering Workstation performance |
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Use of environmentally-friendly hardware |
VT Stakeholders Project (Co-PI, Spring 2007)
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Design of promotional audio-visual materials for the Performing Arts Center fundraising campaign |
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Soundtrack and effects design |
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2 undergraduate assistantships |
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$10,000 budget |
Ultrasonic Gesture Mapping (PI, Spring 2007)
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Use of ultrasonic beacons for the purpose of sonification of gestures |
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Prototyping phase complete |
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Used as a foundation for the Interactive Taiji project |
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Early tech demo |
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