User:UnivacTechDweeb

A consummate TechDweeb, visualArtist and novatone "musician" univac continuously re-purposes the detritus of trickle-down technology and off-the-shelf toys and electronics in order to create circuit-bent audioVisual hybrids; causing the designers of the original items to shudder in disbelief.

univac also constructs audioVisualizations utilizing Apple's Quartz Composer, a visual programming system, making short experimental films and performing live visuals for his own performances and other live shows. You can find many of univac's visualizations on Vimeo and YouTube.

univac holds a degree in cinematography/photography/writing and was a sound-designer for film/video, video games and software through the 1990's, including early (mid-90's) web designs for such diverse clients as SIGGRAPH, AOL, Microsoft (Paul Allen), Silicon Graphics, NTT, mTropolis (Thomas Dolby), NTT, and science fiction writers Alan Dean Foster & Neal Stephenson.

In 1995 univac performed with musicians Paul Godwin and Miguel Noya one of the first live net-streamed electronic music concerts from San Francisco to an audience of over 10,000 in Caracas, Venezuela (using an early beta of what became REALplayer on a 56K modem!).

He has written articles on the art of circuit bending for low-brow, high-shelf art mag Hi-Fructose; live-sound engineers for cutup culture-jammers Negativland (I can't believe it! Lyrics!); and is a co-conspirator of: Big City Orchestra, Daevid Allen (Gong, Soft Machine), BOLT (The Bureau of Low Technology), Wobbly, Thomas DiMuzio, Evolution Control Committee, Edward Ka-Spel, The Silverman and The Legendary Pink Dots.

In addition to univac, there is also audioVisual havoc created under The Univac Index (The Modrn Univac), God's Grandparents, Werner V Slack, AirSickBags Omnimedia (and the mid-90's Omnimedia series of trickle-down technological audioVisual extravaganzas), and Optikal Nutrasweet (tm).

Some of the people who own (and hopefully sometimes play and occasionally enjoy) univac's gadgets: TV On The Radio, BT, Evolution Control Commmitte, Big City Orchestra, The Legendary Pink Dots, Negativland, Paul Andrew Hayes, Pete Doolittle, Andrew Reitsma, RobotSpeak, Rob Wortman, Dr. Bleep, Peter Conheim, Peter Washburn.

Professionally, univac goes by his given name Tom Koch and is a MacTech, running his own Mac consulting business for the last 21 years: OmniTechConsulting.com.