kellydallen

An intelligent MIDI sequencer was designed with hamster control. The MIDI sequencer intelligently produced melodies by manipulating the musical elements of rhythm and note-choice. Guided
by inputs based on hamster movements, Markov chains were used to perform such
  beat and note computations.

Link: MEng project: lil2.

Please note!  The bulk of my development experience results from 2 years working for Essential Groove.com which is no longer in existence.  I don’t have a place to put up a live version of the site for browsing/testing, but you may be able to see a limited number of pages at The Wayback Machine. Remember!  The Wayback Machine sometimes garbles some of the images and whatnot, and is not a live site, but just an archive approximating what a site looked like at a certain time!

http://www.essentialgroove.com
(no longer in existence)

Essential Groove was a massive Amazon-style site that catered mostly to the DJ community selling records (yes, vinyl) and CDs. In its prime Essential Groove was the #3 retail DJ store site in the United States (by Alexa ranking). The site is no
longer in existence, and shut down due to the divorce of the
co-proprietors in addition to the business decision that DJ sales were heading more toward MP3s rather than vinyl.  It should be noted that the site did not shut down due to financial reasons because the site was so intelligently designed that there was almost no overhead. The site was never advertised online or in print but grew to the #3 site entirely by word of mouth.

The site was entirely data driven in classic ASP.  The original site
was developed with Dreamweaver but in the 2.5 years of developing the
site it became more and more custom-coded.  I handled planning the details of the site, features, backend shopping cart and database, SQL, and design.  All of the following were
aspects of the site that I developed:

• Cookie-based shopping cart (including SSL)
• Complex shipping system that included setting the shipping price in
  the customer’s shopping cart based on their purchase, zip code, and
  method of shipment, including international destinations
• Entire administration area that allowed many aspects of the site to
  be operated by non-web savvy people including adding new product to the
  site, changing prices, etc.
• Complex search system allowing customer to search based on several
  factors, for example "Show me the last three months worth of techno
  releases, and sort them in reverse chronological order, but only
  releases from Germany."
• Essential Groove was a brick and mortar *and* online store, so a
  simple database export and upload were all that was needed to keep the
  online and in-store inventory synchronized
• If we were out of stock on an item, I wrote a HTTP Query script to
  access our suppliers’ inventory and show the item on our site as
  "Available to Order" rather than "Out of Stock".  This means that we
  often had payment from the customer before we even had to order the
  item from the distributor and didn’t have to turn down a sale when we were out of stock, but the distributors had it
• Admin system also allowed any employee to fulfill an order, and the
  site automatically generated an e-mail to the customer including the
  UPS or Fedex tracking number
• The customer could also login and check the status of any pending orders, and see links to track any current shipments
• All the site’s numerous bestseller lists were dynamically
  generated, so the entire site was basically updated with a simple daily
  database upload
• The company also released its own records and distributed a group
  of record labels internationally so I often designed logos for
  affiliated record labels
• I also did all of the graphic design on the site since we sold shirts, headphones, etc. also.
• More examples are available upon request

While this site was ASP driven, the foundation of the site lies in
embedded HTML code so I have been able to easily transfer my knowledge
into PHP, probably currently the most widely used technology for data
driven websites.

http://www.kellyd.com

This is my own personal site, included here more for the design aspects rather than coding.  It was originally to promote my various multimedia abilities including music and web/graphic design.  It runs on a simple hosted blog service called Typepad but the design is by me.  It is also useful to note I have multiple domains including email forwarding to one site. (DNS configuration experience, etc.)

http://www.whenaissance.com

Most recently I’ve started a cute little site called Whenaissance, which is meant to be a play on the word "Renaissance".  This site is where I occasionally post humorous or offbeat and artsy stories.  The publishing platform is WordPress, but I started it mostly to experiment in CSS and PHP.  The design is supposed to be very minimal and understated with some subtle touches.  Of course, I also configured the site using cPanel.

My graphic design work on all sites have given me a thorough knowledge of photoshop as well.  Additional photoshop examples are available upon request.

Oh, and just another quick look at the Kobbe & Nitro graphic design that I so gloriously designed myself (click picture for full size):

Been a while since I posted so I thought I’d throw up a quick word that the Iio and Kobbe & Nitro remix releases are imminent.  It’s unreal to me (but in a good way) that the release getting the most interest and generating the most excitement is the free remix I released on this site just prior to the November elections.

Don’t get me wrong – it’s probably my favorite as well, but it’s nice to see people will show interest in something a bit off the beaten track, if it’s done in a creative and somewhat unique way. 

Another quick plug for people to add me on their Myspace.com friends list too.  My list isn’t "pitiful" anymore, but the more the merrier.

If you’ve just stumbled upon this site after hearing any of the recent remixes, please drop me a line.  I’m not like the average dj or producer.  I almost always answer emails (if they’re nice at least), and usually I answer emails with one that is about 3 times as long as the one I got.  I like to hear people’s input and ideas, and generally don’t talk to many other "pro" (accent on quotations) producers because their ideas are usually based in tradition or some other cliches that I don’t adhere to.  (except Austin, Kobbe and some of the other wicked guys I’m always interested in hearing from..)

A friend tells me they think they heard Chris Fortier play one of the ‘America’ remixes on his XM show Friday night..  I don’t have XM myself, so I can’t confirm and haven’t talked to Chris in a few weeks, but if so, that’s very cool and cheers Chris!

The IIO remix is also around now, on promo vinyl and on Beatport ..  Of course, the Evolved mix seems to be the bigger selling mix on Beatport, which is probably to be expected..  Their mix is good in a standard sort of way – it’s mixable, throbby, and will fit a dj mix easily..  My mix is mixable, yet challenging for a dj to utilize to its full potential..  In other words, you don’t just throw it into any part of the mix – you’ve got to have a bit of a plan..  If it’s used correctly though, at the right time in the right place, it can be far more rewarding than just playing a steady stream of average tracks that are all easy to mix and easy to "understand".. 

Beatport seems down at the moment upgrading their site, but give a listen to the mix and buy it if you wanna support risk-taking in modern dance music..  I don’t make anything extra for the sale of the MP3 or vinyl, so I’m not pushing it for monetary gain – I’m pushing it to try and influence people with some different ideas..