Big news in the past two weeks- after some fierce competition and harrowing interviews, I have been named as Scale Well’s first grant recipient.
Scale Well is a Chicago-based consortium of entreprenuers who’ve all pitched in to start a fund for helping small businesses level-up. The organization was just founded a few months ago, but [...]

This is a sketch built in Processing that takes an audio input and uses the amplitude as a variable to define the position, size, and color of generative squares is realtime. Now we’re getting somewhere.

Recipe for Squares from Michael Una on Vimeo.

Lately I’ve been working to learn my way around Processing, a free open-souce visual programming language. There’s a lot of great documentation and people always adding new libraries to it that do a lot of the heavy lifting for complex functions.
Also, a lot of people post their code online, so if you want to [...]

After my performance at the MCA in January, I was interviewed by a journalism student from Northwestern who works for the Indy Gazette. She and her cohort took some photos and combined that with the audio to create a nice audio slideshow of some of the instruments I used for the show:

Thanks guys!

Here’s a little something I scripted yesterday in Processing. I’m working my way through the book Programming Interactivity. So far, so good. Next I want to start working on realtime processing of the image from a webcam.

Crystal Lattice from Michael Una on Vimeo.