Algorithmic music maker, DJ, producer, web monkey, always curious.
Santa Fe, NM
Joined November 2006
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cantonbecker.com/phonemotron… I made a retro formant musical speech synthesizer you can play in your browser with MIDI or your QWERTY keyboard. #klattsch
Music work in progress, unnamed. Testing out Vidi Studio visualizer, fantastic bit of free web software.
Artist friend Jeffrey Ventrella has been making mathematical animations observing and honoring Earth Day for 11 years. I composed the music for this latest one. youtube.com/watch?v=A5aZN1F3…
LIKE AMBIENT MUSIC? Let's explore all of the artists and tracks played on a combined 1,700 hours of radio/podcasts from Hearts of Space (since 1983) and TC's Space Music (since 2005). Discover someone new. cantonbecker.com/ambient-exp…
After four straight weeks of digitizing cassettes, I'm pleased to release this memorial archive of the mix tapes made by Stephen Miller of Santa Fe (AKA MKZDK) who passed away in July 2018. cantonbecker.com/mkzdk
(Sound on!) Coming soon, another collaboration between myself and @jjventrella Jeffrey Ventrella, OG pioneer of artificial life simulations.
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The daytime clean-up rave by the initiative Repair Together. Young Ukrainian volunteers travel across #Ukraine helping locals clear up and rebuild bombed-out homes but also bringing some good music
I did an archeological dig on my music drive and recovered dozens of incomplete songs. Which of them is worth finishing? Lend me your ears and I'll mail you a cool glow-in-the-dark sticker. cantonbecker.com/unfinished-…
This B&W image of my father is not my father. Michael 'Mho' Becker passed away in 2017. But I used #dreambooth to train an AI model on old photos of him, and now he appears in new photos courtesy #stablediffusion. Not sure how I feel about this yet. Thoughts?
Love my superbly trippy artwork from @gengrdn... Absolutely mesmerizing in full-screen where you can see the subtle particle system at work. fxhash.xyz/gentk/1169861
I asked an AI to write a screenplay based on an image made by another AI. Essay published on the Tezos blockchain / IPFS. We live in the future. fxhash.xyz/article/artificia…
Enjoying my four flutterby "Transfigurations" by @pixelfiller on @fx_hash_ -- neural net creations actually rendered in real-time using Javascript. Pixel art because of CPU and storage limits instead of trend-following.
"Qualia" is minting right now on fxhash. Here's a sneak preview of 2,500 unique outputs. vimeo.com/742043862
Minting is now open for "Qualia", a collaboration with algorithmic art rockstar @JJVentrella . Edition of 200 at 4 Tez each. fxhash.xyz/generative/18479
Monday Aug 22: Releasing "Qualia", a new algorithmic work by @JJVentrella on @fx_hash_
