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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).…
MUZAK CONCRÈTE
“Music for Waterways”
Tune in at 11pm tonight on @noodsradio
We’ll be playing music by @hi5ghost.wav @_kamaru_ @kaitlynaurelia @cat_barbieri @maryoverthere @mutebenny @trevormkamplain @laurie.spiegel amongst other water themed tracks.
#muzakconcrete #ambient #ambientmusic #noodsradio #water #fieldrecording #watermusic #musicforwaterways
Have been following @suiteru.train using Orca and Pure Data to play the Model:Cycles so got inspired and gave it shot…
Really fun tweaking out the cycles while PD’s doing it’s thing. Mmm, budget #autechre 😅
#puredata #modelcycles #stickerpack #synth #hiddenconstruct @weareelektron #elektron #modelcitizens #wearemodelcitizens #saturdaysynthesis #generativemusic
Makes it more interesting finding out you were surfing over reef _after_ you get out the water. I guess that fact that the take off was between two rocks and then you had to thread between another two should’ve been a giveaway 😅
First time surfing Black Rock, Bude, with super clean 3-4’ left-handers (at least to start with) and an easy-paddling 16sec swell period.
#surfing #cornwall #blackrock #bude #surfingcornwall #surf #ohheytheresarock #andanotherrock
HIDDEN SOUNDS OF SPIKE ISLAND
Our sound walk starts today and runs over the weekend as part of @brisopendoors. This is a ticketed event, link in bio.
“What should the city sound like? In this hour long audio walking tour you will be guided to listen deeply & reflect on the present, past & future soundscapes along the harbour-side. How has the sonic environment changed over time? and importantly, how can we shape the future soundscapes of our cities?”
#buildinginstruments #hiddensoundsofspikeisland #spikeisland #audiotour #deeplistening #environmentalsound
Very pink and very fast. Just back from giving it a first run round the St George skatepark and never had quite as much excess speed around a bowl. Going to have to start working harder on my old-school tricks now 😅
@blastskates x @slamcityskates
#skateboard #blastskates #skateboarding #newboard #slamcityskates @santacruzskateboards #slimeballs #pink #allthepink #retroshape #oldschoolskateboarding
Can’t get enough of those glassy Model:Cycles FM chords! Pairing the Cycles with the modular and getting them hooked up with MIDI is already turning out to be oddly complementary. Feels like I’ve barely scratched the surface so far!
@weareelektron #modelcycles #modelcitizens #wearemodelcitizens #modularsynth #fmchords #springreverb
Ada seems pretty happy about unlocking “Level 01a Bipedal Mode”. Going to have to start considering mini-keytars sooner than planned at this rate.
#bipedalmode #sofalean #proppedup #baby #wobblylegs #faceplantinevitable #lookmumnohands
“FM synthesis and pants on your head” vibes today. Taking bookings for art gallery gigs and toddler birthday parties soon.
#baby #synth #babyandsynth #pantsonyourhead #thatsnotahat @weareelektron #modelcycles
MUZAK CONCRÈTE
Our latest show went out on Sunday and is now up for streaming on @noodsradio (link in bio). This month’s theme is “Music for Hidden Cities” and features four new tracks from Bloody Rats aka @rowanbishop … for a taster head over to Rowan’s feed and immerse yourself in his ambient tape loop, modular synth, fx pedal, turntable and fruit based ambient explorations.
#noodsradio #noodsradiobristol #muzakconcrete #ambient #musicforhiddencities #radioshow #bloodyrats