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      • Isle Royale – Listening Beyond the Edge
      • Buoy Music. 2020 Reboot. More Sensors. Better System.
      • Water Quality Xylophone
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      • Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground.
      • Critical Listening in a Divergent Wilderness. Workshop in Joshua Tree National Park.
      • Listening Bus Tour. Ames, IA
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  • About
    • Director, Iowa Lakeside Lab Artist-in-Residence Program
    • Artistic Director & Graphic Design, Group Creative Services
    • Director of Graduate Education, MFA in Graphic Design, Iowa State University
    • President, World Listening Project
  • Projects
    • LivePerformance
      • Sunday MASS – Mechanism for Actualizing Speculative Soundscapes – Live #NautreSound Performance
    • Interactive Sound Art
      • Nature is on the Line
      • Cathedral to Aquatic Sonification – Immersive Installation
      • Listen Right Here: DSM. Des Moines Art Center Iowa Artist.
    • Sonification
      • Isle Royale – Listening Beyond the Edge
      • Buoy Music. 2020 Reboot. More Sensors. Better System.
      • Water Quality Xylophone
    • Listening Walk
      • Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground.
      • Critical Listening in a Divergent Wilderness. Workshop in Joshua Tree National Park.
      • Listening Bus Tour. Ames, IA
      • Bureau of Infrastructure Tourism
    • NatureSound
      • Acoustic Ecology @ Iowa Lakeside Lab on Iowa Public Television
      • Based on a True Story: From Rural Northwest Iowa to Downtown Des Moines
  • Join Mailinglist
  • Artist Statement

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Design Sermon: Process. All Rotten Milk is not Cheese

by alexUncategorizedPosted on January 21, 2020February 6, 2020No Comments

You can’t grind every bad into something good. You have to know when to bail.

Design Sermon: Process. All Rotten Milk is not Cheese. Type Play

by alexUncategorizedPosted on January 20, 2020February 6, 2020No Comments

Experiments and process materials from the artboard that didn’t make cheese.

30 seconds of nature sound. The Bunker

by alexUncategorizedPosted on January 20, 2020February 7, 2020No Comments

Placed the Wildlife Acoustics SongMeter SM4 on the side property at The Bunker for a couple of weeks and collected some bird vocalizations, squirrels catching the fallout, and a red-bellied woodpecker in the nearby tree!

Design Sermon: Attendance. Show Up. Do Work.

by alexUncategorizedPosted on January 14, 2020February 6, 2020No Comments

Each week in my Senior Graphic Design Studio, I am giving a short sermon on a topic I’ve been thinking about related to design, education, and life as a creative person. The first week is about attendance. Attendance in my senior class is expected but not required. This is college. Your place won’t make you …

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Alluvial Brewing. NYE Poster

by alexUncategorizedPosted on December 10, 2019February 7, 2020No Comments

I love working with Alluvial as their Graphic Designer. The New Years Eve party poster was a blast

Terrain Biennial. Iowa City, IA

by alexUncategorizedPosted on September 27, 2019February 7, 2020No Comments

Tests generated during prototype development for a piece installed in Iowa City, IA for the month of October

60 Seconds of Nature Sound: Lakeside Lab Thunderstorm

by alexUncategorizedPosted on July 1, 2019February 7, 2020No Comments

One of the best sounds I captured at Lakeside in the summer of 2019. On repeat.

30 Seconds of Nature Sound: Horseshoe Bend Wildlife Area

by alexUncategorizedPosted on June 29, 2019February 7, 2020No Comments

Recorded during my time in Northwest Iowa at Iowa Lakeside Lab

West Okoboji Lake. Buoy Data Collection. Reboot.

by alexUncategorizedPosted on June 22, 2019February 8, 2020No Comments

When I first built the Buoy Music project during my time at Iowa Lakeside Lab as an artist-in-residence, the research buoy had recently been put in the lake. Since then, a host of new sensors have been added to the buoy to monitor the lake, not just at the surface, but at depth-intervals to the …

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30 Seconds of Nature Sound: Fourmile Lake

by alexUncategorizedPosted on June 17, 2019February 7, 2020No Comments

Recorded in Northwest Iowa during my time at Iowa Lakeside Lab

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