The Musical Web was a 10-week sound and code course focused on the reskilling of music composition, co-exploring musicality on the web, and re-thinking distributional methods for our sounds. The goal was to make radical art that used a contemporary medium and technologies, to see HTML, CSS and Javascript as musical tools, and to learn audio processing in p5.js and Max. Together, we gained a broad spectrum knowledge of the various tools and approaches used for working with sound on the web.
A special thank you to: Cycling74' p5.js
Tommy is a New York City based composer and technologist working mostly through guitar, synthesis, and code. His projects often begin with a computational curiosity, and explore physical sound models, virtuality, and psychoacoustic phenomena. He is interested in algorithmic approaches to music making, and manifestations of identity, tradition, and history in electronic culture. He creates custom software, music, and schematics for creative systems, and has performed at Pageant, MoMA PS1, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Sawdust, Harvestworks, and Pioneer Works.
Thompson is a Cree, Canadian, interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection—embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. Her work engages tactics of material minimalism to create site-specific installations that sculpt droning, maximalist experiences out of space and sound. Using audio programming software, computational processing, and acoustic instruments, Thompson’s work seeks to create connection by guiding audience participants through these augmented experiences.
The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning. Learn more about SFPC here.
