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Building Instruments Soundwalk
Come and experience the Hidden Sounds of Spike Island which showcases our research in a sound walk along Bristol Harbourside. The sound walk will be running Friday 10th, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th…
September 4, 2021 -
NIME 2020
This week I’ve been attending NIME’20, the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. I’ve was involved in running the workshop “10,000 Instruments for a Semi-Connected World” on Tuesday, in which we attempted…
July 24, 2020 -
ICLI 2020
I’m at the International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2020) this week in Trondheim, Norway. I’ll be presenting an installation “improvCues” on Wednesday 11th March throughout the day. A machine learning mediated…
March 10, 2020 -
Invented Futures
I sat on the panel of Invented Futures last night, a panel discussion as part of Bristol Technology Festival 2019 about how the stories we tell about technology shape our future. The other…
November 8, 2019 -
Design Thinking at Bath Spa
Had a really enjoyable day at Bath Spa running a workshop on design thinking for the second year Graphic Communications students. They each presented a method of communicating a guilty environmental secret…
October 11, 2019 -
Schmiede ’19
Just back from attending Schmiede in Austria – a ten day long event that revolves around creating a self-organising space for creative collaboration in art, music and digital media. The event takes…
September 27, 2019 -
Ars Electronica
I attended Ars Electronica last weekend, after having last gone there 16 years ago in 2003 (!) as an undergrad. The first time I went really opened my eyes – I was…
September 11, 2019 -
Metastable Impressions – Project Report
Our project report is now up on the Jean Golding Institute’s blog: jeangoldinginstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/…/metastable-impressions This project was funded by the annual Jean Golding Institute seed corn funding scheme. The JGI funded project “Metastable…
July 15, 2019 -
Gorilla Game Lab article published in Frontiers
“High-Tech and Tactile: Cognitive Enrichment for Zoo-Housed Gorillas” Fay E. Clark, Stuart I. Gray, Peter Bennett, Lucy J. Mason, and Katy V. Burgess Our article on the Gorilla Game Lab research has been published in Frontiers in…
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Watson, Ridley, Bennett
Playing a gig this Thursday at Cafe Kino. Will involve double modular synth and guitar. Full details here.
April 29, 2019





Sunday morning skate sesh. Ada got a rock fakie down on the skinny mini (with a strong double arm assist) while I got up to speed with my first frontside 50 50 for a while (no assist, ha). Fun trying her out on the ancient plastic skateboard I remember using as a kid. Bonus techno-viking style pointing while stopping for a coffee and some mall-grab practice on the grass 😅
#skatesunday #skateboarding #miniramp #1yearold #skate

Totally going to steal this “swivel reverse instrument swap” for next time I’m playing out. I think Ada’s picking up her new drums I brought back from New Orleans quicker than I’m getting the hang of the pocket trumpet 😅
#swivelreverse #spin #longwayround #drumsolo #drums #glockenspiel #somewhereroundthere

AMBIENT CAFE
Saturday 3pm-6pm (tomorrow!)
@friendlyrecords on North St
Join us for an afternoon of eclectic ambient from Muzak Concrète DJs (@noodsradio) interwoven with tabletop experiments from guest local ambient artists including @looseforms and Nick Janaway. A tapestry of cascading synths, bleeps & celestial vibrations, field recordings, intricate wallpaper muzak, earthy drones, textural trips, ambient & ambience. We make a space for indirect listening and background enjoyment. Bring your knitting, a book or chess set, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in the music.
#ambientcafe #muzakconcrete #tabletopgig #bristollivemusic #friendlyrecords #animation
#madeinlooom #popbyforacoffee #gentlejetlaggedvibes






Had the afternoon free after the CHI’22 conference wrapped up so did the obvious thing and shlepped across town to New Orlean’s brass specialist @neworleanstrumpets to buy a pocket trumpet. Turns out New Orlean’s oldest tree was round the corner so ended up having a first play sat on it’s trunk (with new mute firmly in place) hoping to invoke some kind of jazz skills transfer magic but instead mildly disturbing a dog walker who strayed too close. Did get an album promo shot though 😅
#neworleans #oldesttree #newinstrument #seriousjazzface #trumpet #pockettrumpet






Happy Birthday Ada – one today!
Bonus fist bump superhero pose photo from when she was a few days old this time last year and looked more like a potato. The efforts to recreate the pose more accurately this year were futile 😅
💛 🌸 ✊ 🥳
#happybirthday #cherryblossom



AMBIENT CAFE
@friendlyrecords
Saturday 7th May
3pm-6pm
Come and join us for an afternoon of eclectic ambient from Muzak Concrète DJs (Noods Radio), interwoven with tabletop sets from guest local ambient artists. Undulating synths, cosmic vibrations, field recordings, intricate wallpaper muzak, deep drones, astral jazz, ambient and ambience. We make a space for indirect listening and background enjoyment… Bring your knitting, a book or chess set, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in the music.
@friendlyrecords @noodsradio #ambientcafe #bristolmusic #livemusicbristol #ambientmusic #ambient #muzakconcrete










Triple bill Easter Sunday art crawl. Audio-visual installations and sculpture at the @h.eadless group show in @theislandbristol … a working trebuchet art-flinger at @spikeisland … and piles of salt (sand?) and fresh oil painting at @arnolfiniarts … rounded off with an ice cream in the park while Ada critiques the shows via the medium of stick twirling.
#art #artsunday #audiovisual #sculpture #galleryshow #artcrawl #bristol #sticktwirling







Day trip to Cwmdu to hike in the Black Mountains for @carrie_brassley_yoga’s birthday. Decided to go off piste and take a shortcut up what felt close to a 45° burnt bracken slope. Ada didn’t seem too phased by this 😅
#cwmdu #blackmountains #hiking




Freshwater West 1986 & 2022
Rather satisfying hunting down the same rocks I had a sandwich on 36 years prior age 4. Props to my dad for digging out the old photo and sparking off the rock hunt!
#freshwaterwest #rocks #beach #erosion #oldphoto #thenandnow