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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Show Us Your City
Our project “Show us your city” has been shortlisted for Playable Cities Oxford. Would be great to hear your comments of the proposal over here: Show Us Your City
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Unfixed 2.0
Giving a talk on Resonant Bits tomorrow as part of Unfixed 2.0 in the Pervasive Media Studio. Slides available as html (with video) or pdf
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SXSW
I attended SXSW for the first time last week to present a panel on “Subtle Interfaces: Designing for Calm Tech” along with Verity Macintosh, Chloe Meineck and Tom Metcalfe.
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Open-Jack!
EARS are putting on an open-jack night on Thursday 29th April at the Ad-Hoc Gallery. I designed/illustrated the poster to pair up with the style of the VJ workshop (see previous post).…
Tune in to @noodsradio 11pm tomorrow for Muzak Concrète… this month we’ll be playing some of the live performances from Ambient Cafe at @friendlyrecords including @seanaddicott, @not.aus, @thomas_____r & @delaygrounds
@muzakconcrete #ambient #ambientcafe #muzakconcrete #noodsradio #musicforcafes
Surf was flat Friday afternoon, so took Ada for a session on the Croyde concrete mini. Had fun keeping the board under her over the pump bump, and learning sweeper transfers over the spine.
#skateboarding #croyde #concretewave
Come join us for the next AMBIENT CAFE at @friendlyrecords this coming Saturday (4th June) 3pm-6pm featuring guest artists @seanaddicott and @karlsadler along with @muzakconcrete DJs (@noodsradio)
#ambientcafe #bristolgigs #ambientmusic #muzakconcrete #saturdaysynthing #afternoonambient #friendlyrecords
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