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Who is Henry Lowengard?
And what the heck does J.H.H.L. stand for?
My name is John Henry Hartman Lowengard. Although I've occasionally been called J. Henry, I generally hang up on people who call me John.
 Born: August 30, 1956, 1PM
Hartford, Connecticut.
A nice, large format photograph of me, taken in April 2004 by Steven Salmieri. (16K, 72dpi)
A nice, large format photograph of me, taken in April 2004 by Steven Salmieri. (1.3M, 300dpi)
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- Art shows and other artistic pursuits
- 2010 Show
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March: Powers Of One
, a response / tribure to POWERS OF TEN by Charles and Ray Eames. For a challenge by Core 77.
- 2008 Show
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- 2006 Show
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- January and February: Kingston Library, display case prints and computer installation: Selections of prints, panels of frames including "9 Bottles of Beer", "Red Maple Leaves", "Exquisite", frame array prints ("ingrids"), and a computer showing many of the Daily Vapor videos available here and other very short animations.
- 2005 Show
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- December: Kingston Library: Roof Repair and Replacement, a short-short video about the improvements to the Library's infrastructure,
which took place in October - November 2005.
See Kingston Library: Roof Repair and Replacement (1'51'', 1.1M).
See Kingston Library: Roof Repair and Replacement [bigger] (1'51'', 3.1M).
See Kingston Library: Roof Repair and Replacement [even bigger] (1'51'', 9.3M).
- November: Light Excercise, Listen With Your Eyes Workshop, Nov. 12, 2005. Uses time lapse, filters, slow pans, and out of focus images.
See Light Excercise (3'14'', 3.6M).
- November: Autumn Frames, prints from the October "leaf" Daily Vapor animations.
At the Espous Library, Port Ewen , NY.
- October 2, 2005:
In My Rowboat: New Somniloquies
with Nancy Graham for the 10th annual Dream Festival at Deep Listening Space
Detailed information and media are here!
- Stuck In My Head, an audio exhibit at the Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, NJ.
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Henry Lowengard: Stuck in Your Head
September 15, 2005 - January 27, 2006
Belief Boy of Music, (Dec 15, 1988)
The artist drew on an interview from WNYC's New Sounds program, between host, John Schaefer and guest, downtown composer Glenn Branca. Just prior to this interview, John Cage made an infamous remark about Branca's Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses at the 1982 New Music America:
"My feelings were disturbed ... I found in myself a willingness to connect the music with evil and with power. I don't want such a power in my life. If it was something political it would resemble fascism" (John Cage, 1982).
Cage later changed his mind about Branca's music - but the old quotation is the one that sticks. Branca's natural nervousness and laughter and the contrast between the two voices were exceptionally appropriate for Sound Bite. Belief Boy of Music is in four movements, each using different parameters for sound generation.
Other works are: Read My Lips, (1992), a hasty promise of the 1992 presidential election analyzed on NPR, and by Sound Bite; Call Ya Later (Dec 12, 1994), up to five one-way conversations fit into a single UHF audio channel - an interesting cross talk portrait of New York City in the days of analog mobile phones; Ada Rowboat (Aug 23, 2005), a new piece based on the latest somniloquy of Nancy Graham, the artist's wife; St. Peter's Tour (1994?), an old tour cassette takes the listener on a dizzying trip around St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome; Day of the Dead (excerpt), (Oct 28, 1989), a combination of several techniques and programs written into an audio collage for the Day of the Dead, 1989.
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- Love Is So Sweet, a Valentine's Day animation.
- The Daily Vapor, a new image created daily.
- 2004 Show
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- October 20, 2004: Delicious Evening
An evening of music, readings and animation by Henry Lowengard and Nancy Graham at Deep Listening Space
in Kingston NY.
Detailed information and media are here!
- September 24, 2004: Listen with Your Eyes Workshop
Nancy Graham and I participated in the Listen With Your Eyes workshop
on experimental video and devotional cinema. Here is the short video I made from that workshop,
Seeing (2'55'', 13M).
- 2002 Show
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- Animations for POLLOCK SQUARED
the experimental ultra-indie art biography/fantasy
Pollock Squared, by
Bill Rabinovitch features a few of my rather small animations.
- 1997-1999 Show
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- Exhibitions at ECHO Headquarters
The Art Conference of ECHO, the venerable NYC online community,
sponsored group shows when there was a place to hang them.
I showed works in:
- December 1997: PERCOLATING INSIDE & OFFLINE
Showing the same triptych as was shown at Dong-Ah Gallery.
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May 1998: THE SELF-PORTRAIT SHOW
showing this:
(actually something more sophisticated than that),
and a comic done with my wife, Nancy Graham.
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October 1998: ABSTRACT ECHOIDS
Showing an hour long mix of my video work.
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May 1999: SPRING FEVER
Showing a doll I made with my then 2-year old son Raymond.
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October 1999: CURVES
Showing some ancient vertice-local warped curve pictures from the 70's that I made.
- 1996 Show
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- ISEA'96 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
presented a poster session with Nik Williams: CYBERGOMI: Here Today Gone Tomorrow
Featuring a Vapor Paint video and a live demo.
- 1995 Show
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- October 1995:
TELECOM '95 (Geneva) VRML spaces for France Telecom
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Summer 1995:
Dong-Ah Gallery, Seoul Korea
Vapor Paint Triptych - 23x23 inch IRIS prints: one Vapor Paint
(2-d) scene and two Inventor (3-D) scenes derived from the same data.
- 1994 Show
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Article in "Experimental Musical Instruments" newsletter: vol 9 #6,
on "Software-o-phones," my computer based software instruments.
and sound examples on the compilation tape for Volume 9.
[available at http://www.echonyc.com/softphones.html]
- January 31:
Presentation/performance of sound and animation at
Staedtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen Germany
- October 24:
Presentation at Trinity College, Hartford CT.
- Animations for WFMU-TV, another public access show.
- 1993 Show
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- April:
New York Tension, group show at Gallery 450
showing "SOLD", a computer poem using FRAX.
- September:
Release of CD "Transforms:the Nerve Events Project"
on Cuneiform Records with "Sublime Message".
- Spring and summer:
created animations for an interactive
computer piece running at the Taejon Expo in Taejon,Korea.
- 1992 Show
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Typical Vapor Paint movie at this point:
click to show (Quicktime movie)
- 1991 Show
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- October:
Animation for ECO-WARRIOR, a one woman show at
the Society for Illustrators by Sandra Filippucci.
- October:
Animation TUNA WIGGLE, based on the paintings of Bill Rabinovitch, is produced
over a period of about six weeks. It was shown fairly often on Bill's cable TV show
ART SEEN.
Back in 1991, it took two days to render the 1100 images, to be shown at 10 fps, and they were at a special half video resolution. Now, it takes 20 minutes and 40 seconds to render the 3432 images, to be shown at 30 fps, at full video resolution.
Tuna Wiggle Quicktime movies: (1 Minute, 55 seconds)
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A selection of images from Tuna Wiggle.
- 1987 Show
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- November:
For the first show at Mission Graphics Support in the East Village, NYC,
of a new kind of art by Sandra Filippucci, I coined the term DIGITAL MONOTYPE. Art historians, take note!
Here's the program:
MGS page-1
MGS page-2
MGS page-3
- 1980 Show
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- June:
Barnes Gallery, Loomis-Chaffee School:
One man show of
altered Polaroid SX-70 pictures and Postcards.
Altered SX70 over Postcard
(this is a color Xerox of the original...)
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April:
staged reading of my play "Touch Typing"
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- Performances and Radio
- 2009 Show
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- June, 2009
Joined the acoustic music group Mamalama on Hammered Dulcimer, Pianica, Recorders, etc. Recording in the offing for 2010!
- 2008 Show
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- May 4, 2008
Player with the American Festival of Microtonal Music's ODYSSEUS,
Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston MA. this was a reprise of the 1997 performance!
- 1997 Show
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- 1997
Player with the American Festival of Microtonal Music's ODYSSEUS,
St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia U, NYC, NY.
- 1996 Show
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- June 12 and October 24-26,1996
Player with First Avenue's performance piece A CRITICAL MASS
Washington Square Church
- February 2, 1996
WFMU-WKCR radio war participant - "A radio simulcast war fought with
cartoon sound bites."
- 1994 Show
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- January 31:
Presentation/performance of sound and animation at
Staedtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen Germany
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April 18:
Radio Program WBAI-FM: Singing Science Records show
- December 11:
Radio Program WBAI-FM: Found Sounds
- I start singing with the Loser's Lounge
Eventual repertoire:
- Brian Wilson, "Still I Dream of It"
- Bert Bacharach, "San Jose"
- Harry Nilsson, "There Will Never Be"
- A. C. Jobim, "Aguas de Março", with Nancy Graham
- Lee Hazelwood, "Poet, Fool or Bum"
- 1993 Show
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- January and October:
WBAI-FM radio, "Oblique Strategies",
processing live listener phone calls with HARM.
- August:
co-wrote and acted in "A Tragic Occurance," video
play as Egon Schiele. Manhattan Public Access Cable TV.
- October:
"Naked and Not Ashamed," solo series at performance
space bOb, played various computer instruments and processed
poetry and television audio. Curated by David First.
- Lots of times:
"Empty Orchestra Café," Perry Hoberman's crazy artistic version of
a karaoke bar. I made about six karaoke videos for this project, and sang a lot of the others. The most notorious of them was "Madonna Mopey Lay,"
a mangled English "translation" of "La Donna è Mobile" from
Verdi's Rigoletto.
- 1992 Show
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October:
featured on radio WKCR-FM, "Transfigured Night"
- 1990 Show
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- December:
Cyberspace party: Sound and Fury
animation and sound effects
- 1989 Show
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- October:
Sound and Fury Club
Day of the Dead mutimedia computer jam.
- February:
American Festival of Microtonal Music
at Yamaha Showroom: Tape piece "Nov 13, 1987" and tape realization
of Josip Slavenski's "Music for Natur-tone System"
- November:
American Expressionism Panel: simulated Mark Kostabi
via interactive computer animation. With Vincent Bilotta.
- 1988 Show
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- May:
American Festival of Microtonal Music, realized a version
of Tenney's "For Ann(rising)" in software.
- 1985 Show
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April:
American Festival of Microtonal Music at Roulette
Premiere: Just Autoharp Improvisations
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- Music Discography Show
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Hear my work as The Jazz Kissingers, and other music.
- 2011: WFMU's "Interplanetary Remixes: WFMU reinterprets the music of Sun Ra" : "Rood of the Somoc", Door of the Cosmos remix featuring my iPhone apps Droneo, Tondo, and Ellipsynth.
- 2011: Mamalama's recording "THE WORLD OF COLOR AND LIGHT" (hammered dulcimer, magyar citera,recorder, pianica, bell lyre, kazoo).
- 2010: Mamalama's recording "WILLOWS AND WAVES" (hammered dulcimer, magyar citera,recorder, pianica).
- 2009: WFMU's RUNNING IN PLACE locked groove record,
Five short (1.8 sec) pieces, mostly Shepard tones.
- 2007: Ken Freedman's WFMU Premium: "60 second song contest",
"MacArthur's Park Minute", by the Jazz Kissingers
- 2006: JON CATLER, Pitch records, on "Sleeping Beauty; hammered dulcimer
- 2005: CHAMBER, Pitch records, on "At the Tomb of Charles Ives; hammered dulcimer
- 2005: ODYSSEUS, Pitch records, on "Polyphemus", autoharp
- 2003: Sounds of the Northeast Freeform DJ, WFMU 2003 Premium
"Ultra Violets (short version)"
- 2002: Experimental Musical Instruments: the Later Years
"Software-o-phones (1994)." (Reissued from the original Cassette)
- 1993: Transforms:the Nerve Events Project
"Sublime Message"
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- Primordial Computer Art
- 1960s Show
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- 1968-1969
Learning BASIC over a 110 baud direct dial-up line to Dartmouth College.
Alfred Plant Junior High School (West Hartford, CT).
- 1966-197?
GENIAC!
Digi-Comp I
These great toy computers really changed my life.
- 1970s Show
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- 1969-1974
Loomis Chafee School, Windsor CT
DEC PDP/8e programming and hacking.
Wrote the language MUCAL, a FOCAL variant with an extension to play music
via the "kluge harp" method of placing an AM radio near the machine while
running a tight loop.
I also wrote such things as a symbolic disassembler (it read tapes of other programs and made up mnemonic names based on how each storage location was used), and an n-body gravity simulation program, which showed its results by printing "image frames" on the teletype.
- 1974-1980
Trinity College, Hartford CT:
Working on a PDP/8 and PDP/11, Altair, and school-built 8008 microcomputer
(picture shows me in a striped sweater hunched over the Altair, PDP in background. Other hacker: Fred Borgenicht '79.)
I wrote drivers and graphic software that turned an analog HP plotter into a digital one (front ended by the Altair).
Here is an example of that plotter art: a local space warping 3D Warnock renderer.
Raster imagery on a Diablo daisy-wheel printer featuring Phong shading and Catmull bump mapping.
I graduated from Trinity in 1980 with a BA in Computer Science Coordinated with English. I was one of two students graduated with this degree the first time it was established.
- 1980s Show
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- 1980-1988
Information Builders:
I took over the graphics programming and maintenance in 1980; but also
spent a lot of time playing with the HP7220 and 7221 plotters, driven
by programs on the trusty Intertec SuperBrain.
I did one or two of the FOCUS 4GL Manual covers using this setup!
other research with the SuperBrain and HP7220 plotter:
contour drawing of arbitrary fractal landscape functions.
Contour slices of a fractal landscape (color added by hand)
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- Software in the service of art
Amiga, NeXT, SGI, Linux, Mac (OS 6 .. 10.3), Perl, PHP, Java, C,
FORTH and more.
- Interesting Amiga software Show
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Read about some of these in this article
- RGS - Realtime Graphical Synthesizer: instantly creates sound
by painting its spectrogram.
- BITE - Audio travesty program: develops a crude grammar for
audio, then generates sound using the grammar.
- LYR - MIDI autoharp simulation program, with sequencer and
extensions for other stringed instruments.
- HARM - audio effects program: Harmonizes, slows down,
retriggers sound in real time.
- BUZZ - 8 voice audio synthesis daemon. Commands can be sent
to configure and control digital synthesis patches.
- 8PUS - simple eight voice MIDI controlled audio synthesizer.
- WINK - more complicated eight voice MIDI controlled synthesizer.
- FRAX - script controlled visual text blending and display
program.
- VAPOR PAINT - drawing and animation program. All drawing gestures
on an infinite plane are stored and used to drive pen functions
to create animated drawings. This is a more technical overview of Vapor Paint
- EE - Tuning language for tuning different microtonal
synthesizers.
- Interesting NeXT software Show
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- LPCView2 - an upgraded and fixed up version of LPCView, it
allows one to draw and revise Linear Predictive Code parameters
to synthesize audio.
- Interesting Internet Software Show
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- Various features of www.wfmu.org: the online catalog system,
the "Crackpot / Visionary Card-of-the-day," the "Sound of the Day",
the Candy Valentine Heart server, the Old Codger's Almanac,
many Marathon pledging scripts, playlists and the amazing
Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Recordings" .
http://www.wfmu.org
The Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Recordings
- The Internet Synthesizer - which simulates an analog synthesizer via
an HTML form and its own digital audio synthesis language.
Originally developed on a NeXT, it's been ported to SGI Irix, PC (NT),
Solaris, Linux, and Mac OS X.
http://www.wfmu.org/~jhhl/sinth.html
http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/sinth.html
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Blips - Dynamic VRML creator : jumbles up oddly shaped objects and links
to a stock, yet cryptic phrases drawn in my own randomly warped
typeface.
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- Dubious Firsts Show
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- First commercially released recording with spectrally encoded messages as images - "Sublime message" 1992, "Transforms: The Nerve Event Project", released 1993
- First gopher based webcam (1993)
- First audio travesty program (Sound BITE)
- First lock groove LP Shepard tone recordings (WFMU'S RUNNING IN PLACE) (2009)
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- Software in the service of money Show
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- 2007- : iPhone Apps : lots of iPhone apps, mostly audio based.
- 2008- : eSommelier.net : Independent consultant work, building a web interface for customer support, API testing modules, etc.
- 2005-2008 : Send Word Now (SWN Communications Inc.)
Senior Programmer / Core Architecture Team Lead.
I maintained and enhanced the XMS based email processing system, enabling it to be able to report back bounce data from SMTP errors, vacation notices, and other kinds of automatic and unanticipated responses. In the course of these enhancements, I extended the XMS program itself in Java. I also developed the UI enhancements that showed these status messages, and added searching features to organize the sent message details. I also designed a test SMTP server for exercising the email system, as well automated routines to generate the large number of different error messages that the server needed to handle.
I wrote Windows services that create and queue messages automatically from incoming alerts.
I wrote Web services, both producer and consumer, for creating messages and updating contact information via file transfer.
This programming involved a lot of XML processing, validation and specification.
- 1999-2003: Cisco Systems
1999-1999: Webline Communications
1997-1999: ErgoTech / G2X
I developed and maintained a web-interfaced email filtering - distribution - tracking - responding server, part of the "Cisco E-Mail Manager Option", a component of Cisco ICM. As you can surmise, it and I were acquired twice in 1999.
- 1994-1997: Various independent things:
STiM Magazine: the "Fax Bomb" feature: Fax in a picture in response to a contest on the web, and the response appears on a web page.
France Telecom: A refined version of Fax Bomb, which further organized the faxes so they could be claimed or distributed.
France Telecom: Designing and building a VRML model from its CAD representation using custom conversion and editing software.
- 1980-1993: Information Builders, Inc.
I created and maintained many features of the 4GL language FOCUS: the Graphics, Modify, Fidel, Focexec language, HLI, Modify and HLI SU, all on IBM Mainframes running CMS or MVS,
and also was on the Macintosh port project from 1989-1993.
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Resumes
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Born: August 30, 1956, 1PM
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