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2024

Ketipung repair – the outcome
Repairing a ketipung
The new website – cms to static

2023

'El laberinto' at New Music Scotland awards
Patternuary 2023

2022

Livecoding Audacity – the outcome
Livecoding Audacity

2021

The Longest Night
Tiny Estuary Jams
Gamelan sounds in GarageBand on iPad

2020

Looking back over the year
Gamelan samples
Sound from SuperCollider to OBS on macOS
Subsonic workshop and algorave

2019

That syncing feeling
Livecoding gamelan
Livecoding brass
Radio Automata
Algorave at Radiophrenia
Livecoding with Robert Henderson
Algorave at Sound Thought
Callout for Scottish algo-ravers 16-2-2019
ICLC 2019 Madrid

2018

werk stadig
Interview at Sheffield Algorave
Raving the netbook again
Livecoding Erraid
Not algorave
Livecode improvisation with Anne-Liis Poll
Livecoding again

2017

Giving a workshop in Jakarta
Ubuntu Studio, SuperCollider, Dell Inspirion 11 3000 - success!
Getting ready to be five (/four)
Recent livecoding in SuperCollider

2016

Rave the Space
The Next Station – ‘if only I had’
Layering visuals with SuperCollider
Getting my fingers burned
Here's my screen
A visit to CoPeCo
First public livecode
Recursive synthesis
Patchin' at the Hague
Gamelan Composers Forum
Ball of Sardines @ Red Note Noisy Nights

2015

Working on new music for gamelan

2014

Live Coding and the Body

2013

About ‘Why Scotland, Why East Kilbride’
Electronics nostalgia
Horn-a-Tron
Why Scotland, Why Strathclyde Uni?
Update on 'Why Scotland, Why East Kilbride'
First performance of RITE for four pianos and electronics
More work in progress on RITE – pics
Quartz Composer video sampler for WSWEK
First rehearsal for 'Why Scotland, Why East Kilbride'

2012

Work in progress - RITE
Sonifying IR spectroscopy data – rhythm
Sonifying IR spectroscopy data - finding peaks
Sonifying IR spectroscopy data - automating pitch
Sonifying IR spectroscopy data - 'chords'
Sonifying IR spectroscopy data
Gathering of the Gamelans, Saturday, Wayang Lokananta
Gathering of the Gamelans, Saturday sessions
Gathering of the Gamelans, Saturday rehearsals
Gathering of the Gamelans - Day 2, afternoon
Gathering of the Gamelans - Day 2, morning
Gathering of the Gamelans - Day 1
Gathering of the Gamelans
Performances at Plug
Working on 'The Black Rain'
Premiere of 'The Seventh Voyage'
Work in progress: 'The Seventh Voyage'
Composer's screenshots
Working on a new piece
Some notes from a concert

2011

Nine hours of improvisation
Recording from 'Night of the Earthmen'
Working on a postlude to 'Spiricom'
Straight No Chanter
'Running in the Dark' in Bremen
Cheetah MQ8, first go
gamelan = hardcore
Gendèr miking again
Gamelan impro sliced in SuperCollider
trip points one-shot cap
Max speech munged in Pd
Gendèr mic prototype 01
Happy Me
The diagram (ought to be) the program
Routing text-to-speech on the mac
Yet more text-to-screech
The Sloans Project
parkbenchpound
Music and intellectual play
Liebesglück hat tausend Zungen

2010

fm patch
Max 5 and SuperCollider using sc3~
Max 5 to SuperCollider using OSC
FIMPaC day 1
Étude-Poème pour Pianiste Récitant
BigHexhamBook
Max/MSP to Logic

2009

‘certain assumptions’ at ArtMusFair
First steps in Max/MSP
Sibelius versus tilde – updated
Pd Bootcamp at the RWCMD
yellowpuncher
Jazz in the closet
text-to-screech work in progress
Glasgow Sequenza XVII – ‘Exercise’ for Trombone
MuseScore
Pictures from Bare Wires
Bare Wires in the Skinny
cynthcart
Plan for the show, version 02
Plan for the show, version 01
Slipping Away
Ed bends Yamaha

2008

Ted Edwards classic
Loudcoding?
More text to screech
Bare Wires – text to screech
The Whirlies – success!
Bare Wires
The Whirlies – finished
No bands
Lovely music for piano and striking clock
The Whirlies – early sketches

2006

Great review for ‘Schaduwee’

Straight No Chanter

November 2, 2011

straight no chanter

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Working on a postlude to 'Spiricom'

'Running in the Dark' in Bremen