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I’ve worked for over two decades with artists, musicians, designers, and engineers to make amazing things.

I write software, build hardware, solve problems. I love collaborating on cross-disciplinary creative projects and tackling meaningful challenges. These are some of the things I’ve worked on.

PNC Beacon

I helped build the digital centerpiece of one of the the world’s greenest skyscrapers. 

I’ve written up a few behind-the-scenes technical details here.

Wonder Kurage 海月

Working with my partner Tetsu Kondo as Field+Line, I wrote computer vision software to track the motion of jellyfish, and used the data to generate gorgeous animations projected on the tanks at the Sumida Aquarium. We also composed music on custom instruments to accompany the installation.

NYU

I teach electronics to artists at NYU as part of the Physical Computing area at the Interactive Telecommunications Program. I’ve worked with Arduino founder and department head Tom Igoe to make hundreds of free videos used around the world for electronics education.

Building on Physical Computing, I’ve developed a long-running course on Energy inspired by my experience of the 2003 East Coast Blackout. The class expands students’ technical understanding of energy while challenging them to think about global challenges.

I’ve also taught at Parsons, the SFPC, and Bennington. I’ve also created a class on Time.

Knappen Omskifter

Speculative prototype home goods like mechanical clocks that track the moon’s phase and position in the sky, open-backed tube amps, or smart-enough LED bedside lamps that work in a blackout and fade out when you fall asleep. A Danish-sounding name for design cred (Knappen is a family name of sorts).

Tetrahedron

As Field+Line with Tetsu Kondo, I helped world-renowned photographer Yuriko Takagi develop live-performance software for her multimedia dance event, Tetrahedron.

Musical Stairs

I built stairs that play music for a non-profit in New Jersey.

Burner Hurtslog

I built a custom laser-cutter and developed MIDI-to-CNC software in order to cut new piano rolls for my 100-year-old Angelus piano playing machine and Money Mark’s Echolodeon. 

Global Jukebox

Alan Lomax, well-known for his folk music recordings, also collected thousands of recordings from around the world, and analyzed them with a unique technique he called Cantometrics. The data reveals rich connections in our global musical heritage. I worked with the Association for Cultural Equity to create the online visualization tools for this amazing dataset. 

Cilia

I made a patented electronic instrument for virtuoso shakuhachi player and electronic musician Bruce Gremo.

Seibu Esca

Working with Tetsu Kondo as Field+Line in Japan, I wrote software to create patterns for a motion-activated light installation in one of Tokyo’s busiest metro hubs.

Big Wrench Sessions

Low-key performance series in a Brooklyn piano store.

Data Visualized

I prototyped software to help data-driven medical innovations at GNS-healthcare.

Public Interactives

I worked with a great team at top firm AV&C for several years to create a number of award-winning public interactives.

Invented Instruments

I love musical instrument design, and my hometown was the band instrument capital of the world! After exhibiting my undergraduate thesis software in the Walker Art Museum’s Night of the Mutant Instrument event, I became fascinated with invented instruments and have made several of my own, including the two-person Double Harmonics Guitar and Silverfish. I briefly had a band, Zaftig, that performed on the instruments.