My name is Alistair MacDonald, I am a co-founder and applications programmer at bocoup, a Boston webshop/hack-space near South Station. I am curently chairing the W3C Audio Incubator Group, and am a technical lead on the Processing.js project. I am passionate about the future of the Open-Web and the integration of low-level APIs to support the web-top paradigm. In my free time I like to make music, visuals and hack on future browser technologies like: Mozilla's Audio Data API, JavaScript multi-touch interfaces. and WebGL (native 3D hardware support in the browser). You can usually find me hanging out in #audio on irc.mozilla.org.
Languages/APIs/Tools
JavaScript, Processing, Bash, Burst, jQuery, WebGL, Git, Reason, Cubase, Audition(Cool Edit), Blender3D, <Canvas>, <Audio>, <Video>
Speaking Engagements
Upcoming
- 2010-11-08 HTML5, Processing.js Interactive Workshop @ EDUI Conference, Virginia
- 2010-08-19 Processing.js New Features & Tutorial @ Harvard, Boston
Past
- 2010-07-08: Web Audio - The Future of Web Audio @ Mozilla Summit 2010, Whistler, Canada
- 2010-05-12: Web Audio - The Future of Web Audio @ Bocoup Loft, Boston, MA
- 2010-04-28: Web Audio - Audio Data API Talk @ WWW2010, NC
- 2010-04-17: WebGL - WebGL Demo Overload @ JSConf, DC
- 2010-04-02: JavaScript Motion Graphics - Keynote @ Motion Graphics Festival Boston, MA
- 2010-03-17: Processing.js - UI Mechanics @ Bocoup Loft, Boston, MA
- 2009-11-21: Processing.js - Processing.js Workshops @ Music Hack Day, Boston MA
- 2009-10-30: Processing.js - Creating an Animated Twitter Widget for your Website @ University of York, Canada
- 2009-09-11: HTML5 - A Crash Course in HTML5 @ Microsoft NERD, Boston MA
- 2009-04-30: Processing.js - The Death of Flash @ BarCamp4 MIT, Boston MA
Mentions
- Touch-Screen Web Music - Create Digital Music Magazine: Web-based musical instrument with PJS & Audio Data API
- Touch-Screen Web Music - Mozilla Hacks: Web-based musical instrument with PJS & Audio Data API
- Cloudkick Server Visualization - Using Processing.js to visualize the cloud
- Processing.js Multi-touch - Processing and Multi-touch in Firefox 3.7
- JavaScript Audio Player - 35 Fresh JavaScript/jQuery Tools and Resources
- The Burst Engine - 17 Javascript Animation Frameworks Worth Checking Out
- The Burst Engine - 10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks
- The Burst Engine - Mozilla Hacks - "animating SVG with canvas and burst"
- JavaScript Audio Player - Mozilla Hacks - "audio player ? HTML5 style"
Music
- F1LT3R - Cryogenic Unrest
- F1LT3R - Ghosts in HyperSpace
- F1LT3R - SOS Distress
- F1LT3R - Disturbed Orbit
- F1LT3R - Binary Lovers
- F1LT3R - Whirl
- F1LT3R - Atari Safari
- F1LT3R - Baraka
- F1LT3R - Break!
- F1LT3R - Bungie
- F1LT3R - Face 2 Face
- F1LT3R - Koko
- F1LT3R - Life's Story
- F1LT3R - Lift it Up, Feat. Dr M L King.ogg
- F1LT3R - Magma
- F1LT3R - Mission A poil
- F1LT3R - Myelowe
- F1LT3R - No Excuse
- F1LT3R - Out of The Blue
- F1LT3R - So Far Away
- F1LT3R - Some Kinda Chill
- F1LT3R - Someone is Sneaking
- F1LT3R - The Music Makes You (Slow Edit)
- F1LT3R - The Opening
- F1LT3R - Untime