My project, Swarm, is an interactive audio-visual installation, exploring the concept of the hive mind and swarm intelligence. It is presented as a visualisation of several hundred entities, projected on a touch-sensitive projection screen, sonified with generative audio. Visitors to the installation are invited to touch the screen, which affects the behaviour of the swarm [...]
As part of my Creative Music Technology degree at Bath Spa, I’ve created an instrument for our 13-strong ensemble – “Behaviour”. The core of my instrument is a photocell, connected to an audio mixer’s microphone input. When light strikes the photocell, it generates a small current, which is amplified by the mixer and output to [...]
Here’s a track I wrote last year as part of Andy Keep‘s “Wrong Pro Tools” module, where it was perscribed that we could only use Pro Tools’ signal generator plug-in, the hand drawing of waveforms and digital feedback to write a piece of music. Creative limitations taken to extremes? Expunge by ilumos