Wired Magazine on iPad
Client: Wired Magazine, with Robert Hodgin
Provided: sound design
Date: 2010
I created sound design for a generative graphics piece created by Robert Hodgin for issue 18.08 of the iPad edition of Wired Magazine. The piece was used as part of a feature illustration. I'm a huge fan of Hodgin's programmatic work--he's recently worked with Peter Gabriel, and in the past, with Apple on the iTunes Visualizer. Being a code artist myself, I've been interested in exploring audio accompaniments to these types of pieces, be it the assemblage of imagined sounds emitted by the objects and environment or--in the case of these two videos--a musical score that attempts to compliment vector-based graphics.
Earlier render with music track. This piece had multiple shots, as opposed to a single movement, so I composed ultra-brief sections--a glitchy, stripped-down beat, a whistling background, some wandering melodies.
Final render with music track. I chose to compliment the glowing, solar graininess of the particles with granulated, ascending tones, cello drones and a trip-hop-like beat.