Tom Lopez began working with interactive software over 20 years ago. By the late 90’s, he was working with wireless medical sensors on dancers, capturing physiological data about muscle movement, brain activity, heart rate, and so on, for live generation and manipulation of audio and video. But he lost his patience with the issues around transportability and hardware/software stability. Since then his live electronics work has focused more on effects boxes (more reliable and transportable). At this point though, he has renewed enthusiasm because it seems Max and Live software are more pervasive (partially solving the transportability problem) and software stability appears to be quite good these days…so here he is, excited to dive back into the world! Tom Lopez teaches in the Technology in Music and Related Arts Department at Oberlin Conservatory. His creative work incorporates instruments, electronics, collaboration and spice. www.tomlopez.org/
