Current things

"charlie @ media lab", A record of some work I do at the Media Lab.
in progress since Apr, 2008.
"Trash Talk", a prototype for a mesh-networked, democratic public address system.
from Nov, 2007 to Apr, 2008
"Mycroft Holmes Tribute", A tribute album to Mycroft Holmes and the best of the New England Winter.
in progress since Jan, 2005.

Archive

(verbose):
  • artifacts
    • "Trash Talk"
      Trash Talk, a prototype for a mesh-networked, democratic public address system.
      from Nov, 2007 to Apr, 2008
  • blogs
    • "charlie @ media lab"
      charlie @ media lab, A record of some work I do at the Media Lab.
      in progress since Apr, 2008.
    • "Bike Across the Country"
      Bike Across the Country, In which my adventures in attempting to bike across the country on a recumbent bike are described. I made it from Maine to Utah.
      from Apr 2006 to Jul 2006
    • "veganism blog"
      veganism blog, An exercise in moral unselfishness, in which after 5 years of veganism, I give it up for a month, to see what it is like, and reevaluate my ethical and personal standpoint with respect to it. Discussions of concerns including animal rights, health, and culture. No enlightening conclusions.
      from Mar 2006 to May 2006
    • "dreams"
      dreams, An ongoing record of my dreams and those of several others.
      in progress since Dec, 2001.
  • installations
    • "Scream Yell"
      Scream Yell, An installation which incites viewers to scream.
      from Jan 19 to Jan 20, 2007
    • "Transgressive Interactive Art"
      Transgressive Interactive Art, A thesis for Master of Arts at Dartmouth college, consisting of 4 transgressive installations.
      from Jan 19 to Jan 20, 2007
    • "The Inner Voice"
      The Inner Voice, An installation performed at Dartmouth College on January 19 and 20, in which visitors are locked in a room and forced to compose.
      from Jan 19 to Jan 20, 2007
    • "Automatic Electro-acoustic Music Generator"
      Automatic Electro-acoustic Music Generator, A (now discontinued) web service to automatically generate electro-acoustic music compositions from sound files provided by the user.
      from Dec, 2004 to May, 2005
    • "Poliphili"
      Poliphili, An ethereal installation of sounds collected during the evening of performance, inspired by the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
      Sep 27, 2003
  • music
    • "Faith in Red"
      Faith in Red, A composition for electro-acoustic music (whatever that means). Performed at the International Computer Music Conference 2006 in New Orleans.
      Apr 15, 2006
    • "Imaginary Music"
      Imaginary Music, Music for no instruments.
      Jan 01, 2006
    • "Drei Musik Boxen Mystery"
      Drei Musik Boxen Mystery, Mystery in 3 video music boxes (still unsolved)
      Feb 01, 2005
    • "Mycroft Holmes Tribute"
      Mycroft Holmes Tribute, A tribute album to Mycroft Holmes and the best of the New England Winter.
      in progress since Jan, 2005.
    • "Wake for a Vegan Milkman"
      Wake for a Vegan Milkman, A farewell performance in which Charlie DeTar, Suzanne Martindale, and Ethan "EZ" Lee perform the first 23 of the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs.
      Feb 07, 2003
    • "Golden Age of Serial Killers"
      Golden Age of Serial Killers, A behemoth of intricate folk-industrial exuberance recorded by Matthew Gray and Charlie DeTar in 2000 and 2001.
      from Oct, 2001 to Oct, 2002
    • "Various music"
      Various music, A growing collection of various abandoned music of various quality.
      in progress since Jul, 2001.
    • "Will Roby"
      Will Roby, Fantastic works by a fantastic musician, original compositions and covers by Will Roby.
      Jun 01, 2001
    • "7etc"
      7etc, 7 Ecclectic Terribly Cheesy Short Mediocre-in-Quality-Recorded-and-Mastered-in- 24-Hours-or-Less-Each (Love) Songs
      from Jun 2001 to Jul 2001
    • "Johnson Administration"
      Johnson Administration, A rocking band from Berkeley's Cloyne Court Coop circa 2001-2002.
      Mar 15, 2001
    • "Mt. Weather"
      Mt. Weather, An energetic but short lived rock band starring Matthew Gray, Charlie DeTar, Western Holmes, and a few drummers.
      Mar 01, 2001
    • "G.A.O.L.T.O.C."
      G.A.O.L.T.O.C., My first album. Some decent tracks, some less so.
      Mar 18, 2000
  • performances
    • "Sankhara"
      Sankhara, Performance piece for 8 singers and 8 speakers.
      Apr 27, 2005
    • "Atlanticnz"
      Atlanticnz, An allegory on climate change for drinking glasses, water, hydrophones and computer. Performed at Dartmouth College in 2005.
      Feb 10, 2005
  • software
    • "The World's Longest Melody"
      The World's Longest Melody, A pure java implementation of Larry Polansky's original HMSL composition.
      in progress since Aug, 2007.
    • "MaxJax"
      MaxJax, A library for real-time control of OSC synths using an AJAX web browser.
      Aug 01, 2006
    • "Colorblobs"
      Colorblobs, a data management abstraction for Cycling '74's MaxMSP (though indeed it uses only Max parts, no MSP required). With it, you can smoothly interpolate between arbitrary arrangements of preset data in Max.
      from Jul 2006 to Dec 2006
    • "maxb2maxt"
      maxb2maxt, A simple command line utility to convert between MaxMSP binary and text file formats.
      Apr 05, 2006
    • "Case Insensitive Moin"
      Case Insensitive Moin, Instructions for hacking MoinMoin to allow case-insensitive resolution of page names.
      Feb 14, 2006
    • "Media Editor In Moin"
      Media Editor In Moin, Instructions for hacking MoinMoin 1.3 to use the MediaWiki editor instead of MoinMoin's default editor.
      Feb 03, 2006
    • "Anna's Music Box"
      Anna's Music Box, A realization of Larry Polansky's original HMSL composition for MaxMSP.
      Jan 01, 2006
    • "Acrostic Squares"
      Acrostic Squares, Python script which solves acrostic squares given an arbitrary dictionary.
      Dec 06, 2005
    • "Eine Kleine Gamelan (Computer) Music"
      Eine Kleine Gamelan (Computer) Music, An implementation of Daniel Goode's "Eine Kleine Gamelan Music", based on Larry Polansky's earlier version, as a MaxMSP standalone application for OS X and MaxMSP source files for windows.
      Nov 01, 2005
    • "pattr_ui"
      pattr_ui, A user interface object for the pattrstorage preset mechanism in the MaxMSP music programming environment.
      Nov 01, 2005
    • "Meta Data Plugin"
      Meta Data Plugin, A (now outdated) plugin for the MoinMoin wiki to implement facet browsing, meta data tagging and meta data searching.
      Oct 03, 2005
    • "nyptho"
      nyptho, An embedded python interpreter for the MaxMSP music programming environment.
      from Dec, 2004 to Oct, 2007
    • "Babble"
      Babble, A java implementation of Galoob's completely un-famous 1988 out of print forgotten handheld game, "Babble".
      Dec 01, 2004
    • "Automatic Sudoku Solver"
      Automatic Sudoku Solver, Why solve puzzles by hand, when you can write software to solve them for you?
      Nov 22, 2004
© 2008