Kurt Schultz is a media artist/composer who is currently an Assistant
Professor at Northern Illinois University's Time Arts Program, where he
teaches animation, sound art and multimedia.

Chaotic Notions is an attempt at unifying the sound and image creation
process. Animated visual particles are combined with sound synthesized using
a technique called granular synthesis, a method of building sounds by
clumping minute slices of audio "grains". This visual and audio particle
generation share similar controls, such as rate, density, chaos, duration,
direction, etc. It is these common controls/metaphors and parameters that
spark some of the processes in the artist's current work for performance and
gallery installation environments. One goal is to develop some kind of
coherent system where concurrent sound and visual events can make sense to
the artist, where some kind of visual-music language can develop
spontaneously and in real time.

Hardware: NeXT workstation, Pentium 90, Personal Animation Recorder
Software: cmix, rt, 3D Studio DOS, Razor Professional.