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.

Some old friends of mine are in a fantastic band, Reptar. I’m working on a larger scale website for them, but in the meantime I built a quick one pager with basic information and a couple tracks. Check out the site and their music at ReptarMusic.com.

For more information on Reptar, check out their myspace page. They’re currently touring around the southeast, but I hear they’re heading up north soon.

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.

Here is a poster I designed for an event held by the Ligetisplit Ensemble, a musical group in Baltimore. The event, a History of Electronic Music Instruments, should be a good night.

I used an old Processing sketch which visualized an audio stream. The typography isn’t quite what I usually do, but it seemed appropriate for the event. It probably isn’t that unusual anyway.