The Teknokothika
Music is not all I do, though it is my first and strongest love. Technology also holds a fascination for me. Since the early 1990's I've been adding to this big mess we call the world wide web. For love and money, I've made pages, sites and applications for a long time now. My more recent and ongoing website projects include:
- Meet The Composer
For MTC, I led a redesign and performed all the programming myself. The organization will continue to massively expand its on-line presence in the near future—check it out! I'm especially proud of the repertoire database, look for "Commissioning History" and enjoy wandering through the amazing collection of music brought to life by MTC's tireless efforts. - Schola Cantorum on Hudson
For SCH, I assisted with the overall architecture of the site, but my focus was on Project Encore, a searchable database of new choral works (sensing a pattern yet?). - Sounds Like Staten Island
On SLSI, once again, I provided the upload and search features of the audio database—a forum for the sharing of sounds from and about Staten Island. Visit, record, use and upload, where ever you happen to be. - Some other sites I've had a hand in include:
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Websites are fun and profitable, but are, let's face it, old hat. So, in the interest of keeping interest alive, I'm embarking on (mostly artistic) explorations of the following ideas:
- Mobile: we've all got these little things in our pockets and elsewhere, why not explore more artistic uses of them? They know where we are, capture image and sound around us and connect us to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
- Transmedia opera: the film industry is re-imagining itself (at least its more adventurous denizens) and finding how to use the variety of new media formats and contexts to expand on the traditional film narrative. This goes way beyond tie-ins. Couldn't the same hold for opera—experiencing the same work or a web of related works each tailored to the device, format or media through which it's being experienced? Opera is called opera (the plural of opus) for good reason, it's comprised of multiple forms of art. Perhaps this is, or should be, the direction of opera in the twenty-first century.
- Physical computing: computers can be programmed to respond to the world around them, to users, changes in the physical environment and more. Artistic possibilities abound.
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Doctor: Well, it's quite a teknokothika you've got here!
Romana: Doctor, what's a teknokothika?
Doctor: No idea, some kind of museum, I think.—Doctor Who, State of Decay, 1980
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