Archive for April, 2009

Jon Mueller here – welcome to my new site.  While a lot of technology is behind this – technology that’s mostly geared toward moving more information faster, I want to use it as a way to focus and slow down.  This site is about what I’m doing, and what I’m interested in.  I’ll post when [...]

Elementary School Children Listening Exercise:
The Haggerty Museum of Art hosts education programs for inner-city children during the summer months. For one of these programs, I spent a morning with the group asking them about their favorite sounds and what kind of music they listen to. Their answers to these questions contained insight into their lives: [...]

Acoustic Phenomena:
Frequencies and harmonics can have interesting effects in different spaces at different volumes. In the video below, taken during a concert by myself and Jason Kahn at a church at the University of Virginia, some members of the audience commented that they could hear choirs singing in certain parts. This effect has also been [...]

Elementary School Children Listening Exercise:
As artist-in-residence at Lake Bluff Elementary, I spent time with their third grade art class, playing different recordings I had made, and asked them to make a drawing based on what we were listening to. The results were somewhat similar, either from them looking at what their neighbor was drawing, or [...]

Presentation on Listening:
In December of 2008, I presented at the Chicago Pecha Kucha Night on listening. The format allows each presenter 20 slides that change automatically every 20 seconds, giving the topic some room to breath, but also requiring that you make your point succinctly. Due to the broadness of my topic, I only hoped [...]

What’s The Shelf?

At home, I have shelves that display things that I think are interesting. I put them there so that people that visit can see them and a conversation starts.
That’s what I’m doing here. Every so often, a new thing will be placed on The Shelf; a thing that has had an effect [...]

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Hometapes makes official the little things in life that define us. We’ve been making things since we were kids, together even then, from every moment we collect. Product architects. [...]