Jeffrey Alan Scudder is a Los Angeles–based artist, educator, and technologist who builds musical instruments and creative tools. He writes Aesthetic.Computer, created Whistlegraph and recently released AC Native — a bootable operating system that turns aging laptops into instruments — and Menu Band, a piano that lives in the macOS menu bar. Scudder holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and is Author in Residence at UCLA Social Software. He regularly attends https://NELA.Computer Club in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
“At CultureHub I’m presenting two new pieces, one for AC OS and one for macOS. Note(s)pat(ial) Native spreads ‘notepat’ (Web version: https://notepat.com) across six surplus grade-school laptops, each booted into AC OS, the operating system I make; and from a live control surface I turn the whole sound field. Prepare to be inside a spinning lullaby. The MacNeoPolitan Trio is newer and still taking shape — three MacBook Neos, each played through Menu Band, my menu-bar piano running a suite of multi-device ‘.mbscore’ files. One piece runs on low-spec machines pulled back from e-waste, the other on machines bought new with a fresh app.”