About John CS Keston
John CS Keston is an award winning transdisciplinary artist reimagining how music, video art, and computer science intersect. His work both questions and embraces his backgrounds in music technology, software development, and improvisation leading him toward unconventional compositions that convey a spirit of discovery and exploration through the use of graphic scores, chance and generative techniques, analog and digital synthesis, experimental sound design, signal processing, and acoustic piano. Performers are empowered to use their phonomnesis, or sonic imaginations, while contributing to his collaborative work. Originally from the United Kingdom, John currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he is a professor of Digital Media Arts at the University of St Thomas. He founded the sound design resource, AudioCookbook.org, where you will find articles and documentation about his projects and research.
John has spoken, performed, or exhibited original work at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2022), the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2022), the International Digital Media Arts Conference (iDMAa 2022), International Sound in Science Technology and the Arts (ISSTA 2017-2019), Northern Spark (2011-2017), the Weisman Art Museum, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Walker Art Center, the Minnesota Institute of Art, the Eyeo Festival, INST-INT, Echofluxx (Prague), and Moogfest. He produced and performed in the piece Instant Cinema: Teleportation Platform X, a featured project at Northern Spark 2013. He composed and performed the music for In Habit: Life in Patterns (2012) and Words to Dead Lips (2011) in collaboration with the dance company Aniccha Arts. In 2017 he was commissioned by the Walker Art Center to compose music for former Merce Cunningham dancers during the Common Time performance series. His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and he composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015). He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on UnearthedMusic.com.
Whatever happened to the Single Point of Truth principle?
http://bpm.stackexchange.com
The more you dilute the users, the less useful the sites become.
That site looks very similar because both sites are using StackExchange. Although there’s significant crossover, the subject material does differ; digital music vs sound design. Also, Andrew’s resource has an identity being associated with him and { sound + design }. I couldn’t find any ownership for bpm. SSD also has much more traffic, probably because people want to know who is at the controls and why, or perhaps they are already familiar with Andrew’s work.
Sound design can be one of the building blocks of music. SSD focuses on sound design, not the medium of music. My intention is not to “dilute” the community, but on the contrary to have a gathering place for everyone with the same interest. The interest is not necessarily music, film, games or art but sound design applied to these.
The reason your question (http://bit.ly/9Rx1XU) hasn’t been answered is probably because it doesn’t fit on SSD. As John says, there is much cross-over but the focus is very different. Your question fits perfectly on BPM, and that’s why we have separate sites. I think the dilution would happen by combining the incredibly large topic of digital music and the just as large topic of sound design. It’s like saying editors and cinematographers should be lumped together in the same pot. Maybe not the best example :-) but you get the drift.
I think there is value in both our sites. Please don’t see it at all as a competition.