Who is Daniel?

• I'm a visual artist, musician and technologist
• In pursuit of projects that allow me to integrate my varied interests
• I like exploring music creation outside of traditional teaching and how to integrate it with visual and tactile mediums
• New media artwork has been a principal platform for this combination of skills 
• I specialize in artistic embedded systems design

Who is Daniel?

• Learned about the gigantic amount of ways that people create art beyond painting
• Gain fabrication chops
• Introduced to the coding gateway drug Max MSP 
• Start trying to make music robots despite not knowing anything

Who is Daniel?

• Expand network of music weirdos
• Build tech chops; learn to appreciate necessary evils
• Gain further perspective as to the importance of artists gaining technical skills 

Who is Daniel?

• Externally it seems so niche but it provides opportunities for a wide range of skills, interests, and investigations to be implemented 
• It provides an artistic outlet for people to gain skills that they can use in other industries 

I Appreciate Music Tech because...

Why Embedded Systems?

Tools to Know

Arduino

• Large community
• Good documentation
• Best place to start to reduce the learning curve

Tools to Know

Teensy

• Arduino’s suped up cousin
• Practically the same
• Less documentation and community

Tools to Know

Bela

• Audio-first micro-computer
• Designed specifically for sound and music projects
• Runs advanced music languages

Solenoid Drum Machine

2012

Boards of Canadarm

2013

MOD/MOM

2016-2018

Art Arcade

2017

Roulette

2015 - ongoing