Anthony Mattox Interaction Design + Digital Art

Intro EP: a collection of electronic musical experiments by Anthony Mattox.

As part of my thesis at MICA, in addition to Pulsus for the iPad and an installation piece, I created my first album of electronic music. You can listen to two of the tracks right here and download the full EP.

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The EP consists of 5 tracks created primarily from recorded samples and some synthesized audio. All the tracks were composed in Ableton Live. Adobe Soundbooth and Pure Data were also used to create and modify samples.

Working on these pieces has been a great break from programming, and, while I still have a long way to go, I’ve made a lot of progress and done a lot of learning. I’ll definitely be creating more, and better music in the future.

The cover was created using processing from some code snippets of other generative work of mine.

So. In the past, I’ve dabbled in sounds and have worked with sound as components of other projects such as games. More recently, in the past few months, I’ve been looking to create audio works which are more able to stand on their own. Here are my first three works.

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I won’t apologize too much. It’s probably clear I’m new to this, but I think it’s important that I get it on the internet. Any feedback is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance internet.

All of the original audio was either created in Pure Data or sampled from recordings around Baltimore. Thanks very much to Andy Mangold and Dai Foldes for the audio recorder. Samples were processed in Audacity and Adobe Soundbooth and arranged in Ableton Live.

Audio spectrum visualization of a section of the third track. Click to enlarge.