Climate Controlled •• An Undergradute Thesis Project
Climate Controlled is an interactive sonic installation based on 5.3 Million years of global climate change from the geologic record. It is currently showing at The Space at Alice, 70 Eddy St (near the intersection with Westminster), Providence, RI as part of the Pixilerations festival.
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Upcoming Events
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News
11/11/07 - I've been playing with Metropolis lately - making people in Providence dance! We play Psycho-Electro-Acoustic-Islamo-Judaic-Dance-Surf-FreeJazz-Metal Groove Music. Contact me (email at the bottom of the page) if you want us to play.
We are:
Hannah Lewis - voice
Arvid Tomayko-Peters - trumpets / electronics
Josh Marshal - sax / toy flute / electronics
Nate Sloan - keys
Dave Harrington - bass
Ian Sims - drums
6/8/07 - I was on Living on Earth on NPR and PRI radio stations! Read and listen on the Living On Earth site.
4/21/2007 - Christie and I performed for Jim Peters' opening at Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA on Thursday. Much fun! Listen to the recordings of two of the pieces.
Greg Souza and I played electronics at the opening of the Sight and Sound show at the Brown Hillel. Recordings soon to come...
Also I have a good 5 minute video of Climate Controlled up!
4/12/2007 - Climate Controlled went fantastically! I am still putting the documentation together for it, but there is some up already on the geophonics page.
Brown Opera Productions' Goyescas opens tomorrow here at Brown,
starring, among other talents, the fantastic Christie Gibson!
Also, I went to the Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce with Brown Geo and had some awesome (but cold) camping and hiking adventures. Photos soon.
I'm performing at two openings on two thursdays: tonight at Brown and next week in Cambridge for my father's opening.
3/5/2007 - Climate Controlled: an interactive sonic installation based on 5.3 Million years of global climate change from the geologic record
My Honors Thesis geophonic installation will be up at Brown March 19-22! For more details and to see opening hours, go to the Geophonics Projects Page.
1/9/07 - Maestro Frankenstein 0.25 is released as a Universal Binary - no longer is it a separate download for PPC or Intel Macs.
1/7/07 - Happy New Year! And a new release of Maestro Frankenstein that puts the whole interface in one nice window and fixes some nasty ole' bugs.
Also, check out Butter's website - I just helped Eric and Maryalice to get it up and running with podcasts of their tunes and more.
Dec 2006 - Christie and I went to New York and played at a party in Tribeca. You can hear our piece, Arvid+Christie=heartheart, on the music page along with LOTS of other new and old music I have just uploaded. Also the Brown New Music Concert Aural Fixation (a.k.a. Kristmas mit Karlheinz) was a success! Masters of the recordings are nearly done.
12/2/06 - I'm designing the new Brown Opera Productions Website - check it out!
11/29/06 - MEME Ensemble performance at the Hellgate Social in Astoria, Queens was a blast! Butch Rovan, Kevin Patton and Fred also played with some of their friends.
2006/11/14 - New bugfix version of Maestro Frankenstein, the Geophonic Music Application released (0.22 beta). I fixed an annoying little graphical bug. Mac versions (PPC and Intel) are available now, Windows version coming soon (as usual...).
2006/11/12 - Happy Exploding Whale day! "The Blast Blasted Blubber Beyond All Believable Bounds". Today is the anniversary of the Exploding whale incident, which occurred in Oregon and 1970. Check Out the Video and the Wikipedia Article. May your day be just as explosive.
In other news, check out the MacUpdate pages for my software! Maestro Frankenstein and Frogmeter!
2006/10/13 - Pixilerations [v.3] closing concert was great. I played with the MEME Improv Ensemble. Lots of other digital and electronic media acts and cool installations. Location: 191 Westminster St, downtown Providence, RI [Google Map].
2006/10/2 - Maestro Frankenstein 0.2 beta is released for Mac (both PPC and Intel)! Download it and make music from data!
A little About Me
Greetings, I'm Arvid (a.k.a. KidVid). I'm a recent graduate of Brown University in computer music and multimedia and geology. I play trumpet, flugelhorn, T.O.O.B. and some other unique digital and analog electronic instruments. I try to bring the improvisational free-energy of jazz and other acoustic music styles to electronic/digitally augmented music and instruments. So I build electronic instruments that facilitate spontaneous performance in many contexts and make unflinchingly spasmodic noises. I want a huge range of options to be available to me in an intuitive format when I improvise on stage. I'm also interested in creating music from scientific - specifically geologic - data to tell the Earth's story through music.
I am part of the band METROPOLIS, work with Brown New Music and perform solo/small group electronic works in and around Providence, such as the Pixilerations festival for FirstWorksProv. 
I make multimedia installations - the most recent of which is Climate Controlled - an interactive octaphonic sonic and visual installation based on 5.3 Million years of geologic data from deep ocean sediment cores. I'm working on a book/CD project with Italian Geologist Sandro Montanari making music from Holocene climate change and have written software to expedite the creation of geophonic music. I've played in the Brown University Jazz Band, the Brown Crossroads Ensemble, the Brown Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble and the MEME Improv Ensemble. I was part of a cool quintet that played Jazz inspired by Funk, Jobim and Japanese Rock called ROBOTTO TAI [Japanese for 'the robots']. For the exhaustive and mostly useless details you can see my musical resumé!
I also design and implement artist websites and edit video and sound - I'm available to do these things at reasonable rates if you are interested in my services.
About Squish the Squid Productions
Squish the Squid Productions started in 1995 when my friend Jamie Martin and I cut our first tape as "The Screamers" on a Sony single cassette boom box. We screamed, spoke in bad Australian accents and played several instruments badly, creating a terrible cacophony. Thankfully, things have progressed since then. Take a listen. By the way, the squid's name is Squish, I do not want to squish him. I do not condone such cruelty to animals.
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