Plans that never happened
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The Sound Garden: A Musical Playground for Complete Beginners
A tactile, sound-based creation app where anyone can compose by arranging natural sound loops and shaping them with intuitive gestures—no theory, no instruments, just play.
Second Line Serenade: A Geospatial Soundwalk for New Orleans
An immersive mobile app that turns your walk through New Orleans into a generative second line parade, blending live GPS data with archival recordings and real-time local musicians.
Hybrid Ghosts: An Album of AI-Generated Folk Instrument Crossbreeds
A plan to build a library of 1,000+ folk instrument samples, train a generative model to create hybrid instruments by blending them, then record an album using only these never-before-heard sounds.
Project Siren: The Silent DJ
An open-source, privacy-first music companion that lives entirely on your local machine—no cloud, no tracking, no accounts. It uses on-device neural networks to analyze your music library and generate adaptive playlists, all without ever sending a single byte of data to anyone.
Tectonic Chorus: A Real-Time Sonification of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
A distributed network of geophones and microphones across the Ross Ice Shelf transforms the ice's creaks, shifts, and meltwater flows into an evolving, multi-channel musical composition, broadcast live worldwide.
SONAR: Sub-Oceanic Networked Acoustic Resonance
A live, deep-ocean concert that streams the sonic environment of hydrothermal vents and shipwrecks, collaborating with indigenous coastal communities and using tactile feedback for deaf audiences.
The Century Symphony: A 100-Year Musical Organism
A living, evolving symphony that will be performed once per decade for 100 years, with each performance adding new movements and passing the score to the next generation like a musical heirloom.
Sonic Abyss: Live Sonification of the Hadal Zone
A permanent hydrophone array in the Mariana Trench streams deep-sea sounds to a custom AI that composes and broadcasts a living, evolving symphony from Earth's most hostile environment.
The Ghost Orchestra – Real-Time Spectral Reverberant Accompaniment for Solo Instrumentalists
A solo performer (violin, cello, voice, etc.) improvises or plays a melody; a system generates a responsive, ghostly orchestral accompaniment that decays, detunes, and drifts like a phantom ensemble, rather than a pristine synth pad.
The Treme Echo Chamber
A permanent, site-specific sound installation in New Orleans' Treme neighborhood that captures ambient sounds and plays them back with calculated delays through historic buildings, creating a living, evolving choral piece unique to that place.
EchoLens — Private, Local Music Discovery
A music player that analyzes your local library to create hyper-personalized, serendipitous playlists, all without ever sending your listening data anywhere.
The Living Bamboo Orchestral
A century-long botanical architecture project growing a permanent, self-renewing concert hall and instrument collection from living bamboo roots, where the 'code' is the rhythmic pruning schedule.
The Phonautograph Player: Resurrecting the First Sound Recordings
A dedicated hardware-software system that reads, plays, and manipulates 1860s phonautograph tracings in real time, turning the earliest acoustic inscriptions into a living, expressive instrument.