Digital Rain
Main Gallery –Nathan Villicaña-Shaw & Jake Penn

Digital Rain uses 192 electromagnetic relay switches to sonify weather data from around the world. A host computer is running a python script that gathers realtime weather data from the internet. The information is translated into short rhythms that are then passed to one of six Arduino Megas (with custom designed SnapperBot shields). The Arduinos then flip various switches creating the complex rhythms heard. Every five minutes Digital Rain chooses a new location of the globe to showcase and the soundscape shifts to accommodate the weather.

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Binaural
All over campus – Clay Chaplin, Jason Richards, Davy Sumner, Ryan Gaston, Martin Velez, Mint Park, Nathan Villicaña-Shaw, Elizabeth Aubert

Binaural can be found in various nooks and corners throughout CalArts in the form of black speakers resting upon microphone stands attached to Raspberry Pi’s. Binaural strives to be an omnipresent, yet unobtrusive, part of the overall Expo experience by utilizing 16 Raspberry-Pi powered speakers to create a massive network of sound. Each speaker is connected to the schools WiFi network and is controlled by a master composition running on a Macbook hidden from view.

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Pollock
Main Gallery – Jonathan Becker

Pollock is an interactive virtual reality installation that explores new ways of merging human sensory modalities within the context of digitally fabricated experiences.

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Return to Mothership
Main Gallery – Dave Mickey, Nathan Shaw, David Aguila, Pin-Hua Chen, Daniel Clarke, Gloria Glavez, Veronica Mullins, Malik Pauldon, Jacob Penn, Alan Tofighi

Two players enter into a spaceship, are given a “Sonic Hammer” and embark on a cooperative mission to return back to their Mothership. Players dodge asteroids by steering their ship using a fully analog pulley system. Manage their ships resources with interactive consoles as well as destroy asteroids using the games custom designed ‘Sonic Hammers’ all before running out of oxygen and dying a horrible space death.

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errorAutomat
Main Lobby – Mike Leisz

errorAutomat is a celebration of glitch aesthetic and broken media in the form of a photobooth that converts image to audio. Users can explore the correlation between audio and visual file formats by manipulating their photos with audio effects. Resulting images are automatically pushed to a Twitter account that serves as a document of errorAutomat’s life at the Digital Arts Expo. errorAutomat was built in collaboration with Matthew Ross Hunt and Leila Jarman.

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PiBines
WildBeast Courtyard –Davy Sumner

PiBines is a portable installation that uses propellors, sensors, Raspberry Pi computers, and speakers to sonify wind speed data into a field of sustaining, droning, lonely tones.

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@FFT_FREAQS
Wild Beast – CalArts Music Technology Students

@FFT_FREAQS is a collaborative local-area installation examining issues related to modern trends of ubiquity and low-cost in computing, developed by students of CalArt’s Audio Signal Processing course. Utilizing Raspberry Pi computers, a number of inter-related installations explore the effects and concerns of these computing trends with regards to the arts, technology, and society.

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4 Dimensional tondo

Walt Disney Modular Theater Lobby –Cori Redstone & Jason Jahnke

A multi-layered moving canvas.

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Suspended Features
Walt Disney Modular Theater Lobby�-Zach Crumrine

A program that generatively creates G-Code to drive a 3D printer. Live input from sensors, microphones or citygram(??) will be taken in and translated into layers of a 3D object. At the end of the Expo, a complete object will have been created that is reflective of the data from the whole day.

Zach Crumrine

Zach Crumrine is a multimedia artist who works mainly in digital mediums. His work explores the relationships that arise between technology and its user, and aims to foster mutualistic interaction between the two.

Daniel Reyes

Daniel Reyes (Tarzana, 1993) is a sound artist, fabricator, musician, and engineer currently obtaining his Bachelor�s degree in �Music Technology.� Viewed in strictly formal terms, his work is based on intricate machine fabrication and custom software design. Technical aspects aside, the interest of his work lies in visually amplifying human�s perception of physical phenomenas occurring in the sonic world.

Instrument Showcase
Walt Disney Modular Theater Lobby – Rodrigo Sena

A collection of three unique instruments:

• TouchDex: Melodic digital synth interface
• Analog Tuva: Analog oscillator bank
• Faraday’s Spectre: Motors’s electromagnetic fields are sonified by magnetic pickups. 

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