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Endochron – Sounding Utopic Materials
Asimov’s Thiotimoline is a fictional metal which is ‘endochronic’ – it sublimates BEFORE contact with water, having molecular bonds in the past, present and future. This reminded me of my own practice of mindfulness as someone with ADHD. The meditation bowl/bell is a locus of that activity, and so with this piece, I tried to…
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Works for Computer Vision
A rise of machine listening algorithms in everyday interactions has impacted not only how we interact with technology, but how we interact with each other. For an example close to home: try retaining your patois/accent when your smart speaker – the nearest thing to a cohabitant or a carer – won’t let you order food…
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Live decoding
What is an expert user? What is an expert of any instrument other than one who has best contorted themselves to the form it demands? This instrument – which simply appropriates a standard laptop – explores this question, by superimposing an action (typing) onto a contrasting task (improvised music). The piece uses natural language processing…
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Knock
We often encode our sociocultural environments into the music we make, but their concrete reality is often left behind. This instrument makes its relationship to the built environment explicit, encoding resonances greater than intended by a single user.
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Particle Granulator (Alpha)
An exploration of digital site-specificity, this project places the user in a chaotically-deterministic loop. Since parameters change with each iteration, they must take time to figure out how the ecosystem works, and then sensitively compose with it, rather than into it. I see this as engaging with the intersection of instrument design with theories of…
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Stepping away from the masters house?
On Friday the 10th of January 2019, I created this installation for the Warwick Arts Centre. Exploring the means by which collaborative musical play might exist without the imposition of western musical theory, participants were invited to create sound together through a number of many-to-one Max/Msp patches.
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Spectral Processing and Timbre Education
This interdisciplinary project at the University of Warwick explored the ways in which timbre could be visualised, using matrix processes on a sinusoidal decomposition (in this case the result of short term and discrete fourier transforms). Note: This method is an extremely long-winded one, and could be mostly replaced by the utilisation of an uncooked…