Everything
Installations, broadcast, film, research, instruments and organizations I have built, from 2013 to now.
The home page carries a curated selection. This page is the longer list, grouped into current projects and selected work rather than ordered by date.
Current
Apps, platforms & initiatives
Current, Audiolux · iOS
Pixelboop
An instrument that feels like a game and teaches music by accident. It maps music theory onto color theory, so harmony reads as a gradient and dissonance as contrast. On the App Store.
Current, Agent-native workspace
Surfaces
A shared workspace I am building, where people and AI agents do real work side by side.
Current, Public-benefit technology
Helpful Tech
My public-benefit technology initiative, working on access, agency, creativity and community power.
Selected work
01, 15 · Installations, broadcast, film, instruments & organizations
01, Portland Art Museum · 2016, 17
Portland Art Museum, Sound Beyond the Auditory
An exhibition I developed with CymaSpace, with an interactive LED installation. The objects on show are experiments in cymatics, the process of making sound visible and tactile.
02, Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live, Esperanza Spalding
A large-format LED installation I built for the Grammy Award winning artist, driven live from an Audiolux One pedal.
03, Oregon Museum of Science & Industry
OMSI, #Seeing Sounds
An interactive LED piano I built with Piano Push Play, CymaSpace and Lucid Design. On view September 2015 to January 2016.
04, Unreal Fellowship · 2020
Cause and Effect
A non-verbal story I made during the Unreal Fellowship: an explorer roams the land of fireflies, with a surprise in store. Rendered in real time in Unreal Engine.
05, Interactive installation · 2015
Cymatic Star
LEDs across the triangles show the dynamics of whatever sound is in the room, as a spectrum of color. Built with Nick Tzaperas.
06, Audiolux Devices · 2015
Audiolux One, Sound-Reactive Visuals
Open-source hardware for building sound visualizations with LED pixels. Made at Audiolux Devices, the company I founded in 2015.
07, Research · Open Signal Fellowship
Virtual Worlds Beyond Sound
Research on how real-time captioning and sign language can work inside 360° digital environments. With Genia Penksik.
08, Film
The Ikigai Machine
An inventor born in a silent world where there is no air or sound invents a machine that restores air, and experiences sound for the first time.
09, Portland, Oregon · 2018
NW Deaf Arts Festival
I was Technical Director for this arts and culture festival in Portland, June 16, 2018.
10, Founded 2013
CymaSpace
The Portland non-profit I founded in 2013, running 50 or more community events a year. CymaSpace is for all the senses.
11, Press · Video short
CNN, Great Big Story
A Great Big Story short film about my work, “How a Deaf Musician Is Helping Others See With Sound.” Filmed with Cymatic Star and custom LED fixtures.
12, Press · Video short
Deafness & Music
A video short about being a musician who also happens to be Deaf.
13, Film · Comedy short
Mouth Language Device
A comedy short in American Sign Language.
14, Founded 2023
Sign Language Café
A café and workforce program I founded in 2023: a cultural and networking hub for Deaf and disabled professionals.
15, Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble
#DeafJazz with PJCE
A collaboration with the Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble. Pixelboop acts as a visual conductor, giving cues that keep a 12-piece orchestra in sync harmonically regardless of auditory ability.
Commissions, talks & collaboration