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About Kevin Haywood
Wave Sequences 
Demonstrating the first prototype. UCLA Design | Media Arts MFA Thesis project Wave Sequences is a shape-based modulation system that takes a sculptural...
 
Cellular Pulser 
The Cellular Pulser is a realtime system for crafting complex rhythmic patterns. The design is a reconsideration of Grant Richter’s Neural Pulsers, a...
 
Responsive Timelines 
Composition environments readily offer tools for manipulating the content within them, but these are almost surgical in their application. Edits, alterations,...
 
Orbiting Arpeggiator 
This is an arpeggiator that swings in circles. The output sequence is determined by the properties of the orbiting mass as it traverses the two-dimensional...
 
Launchpad 
While at Ableton, I designed the system which would become the Launchpad, produced by Novation. The goal was to create a hardware device that could deliver...
 
Live 
Conceptual development, interface design, specification, language and documentation for versions 5 - 8 of Ableton Live, the nonlinear music composition...
 
200e 
Fabrication and prototyping of the Buchla 200e modular synthesizer and Lightning III wand controllers. Hand-built for world-renowned composers and performers.
 
Sounds 
Here are sounds as loops of 1 or 2 bars. They're sketches, paintings, landscapes. All recordings are mono, and created with a single monotimbral, polyphonic...