Virginia Tech Department of Music DISIS - Digital Interactive Sound and Intermedia Studio

Digital Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Virginia Tech • College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences • School of Performing Arts • ICAT • C+I

"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

CREATIVE PORTFOLIO
Following is an assorted collection of recent art created by DISIS students and faculty:

2013

•	Whack-a-mole! (Mac) - Andrew Wood	33MB	zip
•	Whack-a-mole! (PC) - Andrew Wood	16MB	zip
•	Whack A Mole (Mac ) - Cole Edwards	11MB	zip
•	Whack A Mole (PC ) - Cole Edwards	20MB	zip
•	Whack-A-Mole (Mac ) - Dan Tilden	18MB	zip
•	Whack-A-Mole (PC ) - Dan Tilden	7MB	zip
•	Whack a mole (Mac ) - JPO	33MB	zip
•	Whack a mole (PC ) - JPO	30MB	zip

2011

•	MUS3065-6 - aural pixels vol.1 (Mac)		13MB		zip
	aural pixels vol.1 (PC)		11MB		zip

2010

•	Michael Matthews - Prelude IV	6MB	mp3
•	Ian Philips - You are the Blood	8MB	mp3
•	Steven Querry - Welcome to the Labyrinth	10MB	mp3
•	Maya Renfro - Chandelier	2MB	mp3

2009

•	Ivica Ico Bukvic - FORGETFULNESS	63MB	mov
•	L2Ork Debut - Citadel	5MB	mp3
•	L2Ork Debut - Half-Life	8MB	mp3

2008

•	Ivica Ico Bukvic - derelicts of time	15MB	mov
•	Ivica Ico Bukvic - iteration 13	113MB	mp3
•	DC3 - Metronome	2MB	mp3

2007

•	Ivica Ico Bukvic - Pandora	50MB	mov
•	AJ Coppa - Velocity	15MB	mov
•	DC3 - Highlife (voco mix)	3MB	mp3
•	Trevor Robinson - Acid Rain	6MB	mp3
•	Keith Thomas - VOC 330		mov

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:

•	PI (Principal Investigator) for projects that originated in DISIS
•	Co-PI (co-Principal Investigator) in projects where main authorship is shared among several entities
•	Senior Personnel where DISIS was a paid contributor to an outside project
•	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)

•	Extending aka.wiiremote Max/MSP external to support Nintendo Wii Fit
•	DOWNLOAD
	Neverball, Wii Fit, and Max demo

disis_munger~ (PI, Fall 2007-2008)

•	Porting and enhancement of the munger~ real-time granular synthesis object from Dan Trueman's PErCoLate Max/MSP library
•	Use of flext toolkit to produce a platform-agnostic Max/Pd source code
•	Presented at ICMC 2007
•	DOWNLOAD

DREAM: A Discrete REconfigurable Aural Matrix (PI, Fall 2006-2010)
(formerly known as Aural Matrix Haptic Display Interface or AMHDI)

•	Use of large speaker arrays for sonification of data
•	Foundation for an Aural Painting artistic genre
•	2 undergraduate summer assistantships
•	1 undergraduate summer assistantship via the VT REU program
•	$32,000 CLAHS Dean's Grant (Fall 2006)
•	$20,000 ISCE Summer Scholars Grant (Summer 2007)
•	Publication of preliminary findings in ICMC 2008 proceedings

Drummer Game Project (Co-PI, Summer 2010)

•	$150,000 EAGER grant by the National Science Foundation
•	Collaboration among computer Science, Music, and Art faculty and students
•	Design of a game/performance/learning hybrid platform
•	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)

•	$20,000 commission by Virginia Tech ICTAS for an interactive aural sculpture art installation
•	Engaged 3 Faculty across Art and Music
•	Secured 1 undergraduate summer assistantship

Intelligent Sustainable Space (PI, Spring 2008-2009)

•	The design of virtual interactive tour populated with interactive multimedia art installations for a new Wachovia/Wake-Forest space
•	$14,200 sponsored by Wake-Forest for the phase 1
•	$10,000 for phase 2 (physical prototyping) sponsored through VT ISCE/ICTAS partnership
•	Foundation for a book chapter and other publications
•	Project currently in physical prototyping phase
	Virtual Prototyping (Phase I) In-Browser Demo

Interactive Taiji (PI, Fall 2008-2009)

•	The design of a gaming platform using Taiji for K-12 students with focus on students' ability to maintain focus
•	$5,000 seed funds awarded by the VT Education Enhancement Grant (Arts Initiative)
•	Use of Wii Fit platform
•	Collaboration with regional public schools
•	Project currently in pilot testing phase
	PR video

L²Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra (PI, Summer 2009-present)

•	World's first Linux-powered laptop orchestra
•	Received $50,000 in internal support and external sponsorships
•	VT Stakeholders include Arts Initiative, CCTAD, CEUT, CLAHS, CTEG, DISIS, ICTAS, ISCE, IT, Music, and SOE
•	External sponsors include MSI Computer, Renoise Inc., Roland Corp., and Sweetwater
•	Focus on the design and development of custom hardware, supporting software, and optimization of the Linux platform
•	Secured 4 undergraduate summer research assistantships
•	Additional 2 assistantships through NSF's Research Experience for the Undergraduates
•	L2Ork Website
	L2Ork Instructables

µ (mu) Max-Unity3D Interoperability Toolkit (PI, Spring 2008)

•	Library providing easy interfacing between Max/MSP/Jitter and Unity3D
•	Abilty to import Jitter textures into Unity3D (e.g. real-time camera feeds)
•	Use of C# and C
•	Version 1.0 completed in Summer 2008
•	DOWNLOAD
	Tech demo
	High resolution tech demo (106MB)

Networked Ensemble (Collaborator, Fall 2007-2009)

•	Ensemble performance and coordination using network resources
•	$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)

•	Use of a proximity sensor array in conjunction with gesture tracking software
•	Focus on sustainable design
•	Prototyping phase complete
•	Basis for two creative interactive multimedia installations:
	community
	heads will roll

Revo:oveR (Co-PI, Spring 2006-2008)

•	Commission for the grand opening of the Arts Museum of Western Virginia
•	Project developed as part of the VT's Digital Arts Research Collaborative
•	1 graduate assistantship
•	Projected budget $150,000
•	Work premiered on 11/07/08
	First Revo:oveR prototype
	First Revo:oveR prototype tech setup
	DARC arm pit (or something) experiment
	PR video

SMILE Project (Senior Personnel, Spring 2007-2008)

•	Science and Mathematics Inclusive Learning Engagement program
•	Targets underrepresented population of the Appalachian region by building of creative metaphors to facilitate learning
•	6 undergraduate summer assistantships
•	$2,000 internal grant
•	$20,000 ISCE Summer Scholars Grant (Summer 2007)

Sonification Project (Co-PI, Summer 2008, Summer 2009)

•	Research into use of sonification in IDEs
•	Project in part sponsored by the NSF's Research Experience for the Undergraduates (2008, 2009)
•	1 Publication to the IEEE's ICPC
•	Foundation for one Masters thesis in HCI

Summer Camp (2008-present)

•	A 4-day intensive music technology course for the middle and high school students participating in the Music Dept. annual Summer Band Camp
•	Covers acoustics, psychoacoustics, composition, recording, and production
•	Students participate in group compositional exercises using sound editing software
•	2009 Final Group Projects
	Class 1
	Class 2

Sustainable Silent Computing (PI, Spring 2007-2008)

•	Preliminary study used as the foundation for building the DISIS infrastructure
•	Low power consumption Workstations that use highly efficient PSUs
•	Silent air-cooled machines using a single <1200 RPM fan
•	Systems offering Workstation performance
•	Use of environmentally-friendly hardware

VT Stakeholders Project (Co-PI, Spring 2007)

•	Design of promotional audio-visual materials for the Performing Arts Center fundraising campaign
•	Soundtrack and effects design
•	2 undergraduate assistantships
•	$10,000 budget

Ultrasonic Gesture Mapping (PI, Spring 2007)

•	Use of ultrasonic beacons for the purpose of sonification of gestures
•	Prototyping phase complete
•	Used as a foundation for the Interactive Taiji project
	Early tech demo