Hardware projects
Michael also works with microcontrollers and electronic circuits to develop new musical instruments, including Arduino, Electro-Smith Daisy Seed, and PuckJS.
Breathing Then and Now
- Breathing Then and Now is a mixed media composition which manifests the immensity of geological time by rescaling it into a human-perceptible frame of reference through sound.
Materials used: Petoskey stones, a small aquarium, contact microphones, water, two PuckJS microcontrollers embedded into Petoskey stones, Max, NodeJS, WebSockets, and a custom-trained neural network based on BBC sound effects. 
Antennaesthesia
- Antennaesthesia is a modified helmet with an antenna probe gives its wearer and others in the room the ability to see, hear, and feel the hidden electromagnetic fields that surround us in everyday objects.
Materials used: Electro-Smith Daisy Seed, bicycle helmet, gooseneck microphone stand, inductors, Arduino, ws2812 programmable LED strip, contact microphones, speakers, op-amps. 
Octile
- Octile is a polyphonic, rotating cylindrical cousin of the ribbon controller. There are 8 ribbon controllers made of reel-to-reel tape, wrapped around the cylindrical surface which can rotate bi-directionally via a foot controller. Inside the cylinder is a circuit powered by a 9V battery, connected to 8 oscillator chips. Each oscillator is running at a unique frequency and is connected to one of the 8 tape strips. By using gloves with conductive touch points connected via patch cable to Max, and measuring the frequency and amplitude of all 8 input signals, it is possible to determine which tape strips you're touching and where.
Materials used: 555 oscillator chips, reel-to-reel tape, 9V battery, Max, plastic bucket, 12V DC motor, DIY turntable, modular synthesizer, gloves, conductive tape. 
