Andrew R Brown

Creativity - Technology - Learning
 
Andrew R Brown

Tile Town

Tile Town is a web-based audio-visual work combining multi-agent generative systems and audio field recordings. It explores computational processes as a design prompt and examples of unfolding intelligence. The project builds a contemplative commentary on …

Ripples

A composition for live performer and algorithmic music system. Ripples is a musical duet where the human performance stimulates a cascade of responses from the machine. The work emphasises chordal and arpeggiated material derived, in …

Tactical Temporalities

Tactical Temporalities is a semi-improvised live coding music performance set within the framework of an Algorave, an event that blends algorithmically generated music with an energetic, dance-driven atmosphere. The performance explores my application of generative …

Modular Synthesis and the Unconscious: An Exploration of the Role of Technology and Self-Reflection in Sound Creation and Compositional Process

In this research, David Chechelashvili situates electronic music-making with a modular synthesiser within a broader context of technologically mediated music composition and the various traditions and philosophical underpinnings derived from psychoanalytic writings of Freudian origin …

Multiple Beginnings

Multiple Beginnings is a solo, semi-improvised live coding performance at the 1st International Live Code Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2013. In this work the computer code serves as the primary medium of musical expression, …

Connections

Connections is a generative audiovisual work developed in the Impromptu environment and exhibited as part of the [d]Generate exhibition of digital generative art at the Gympie Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia, from June – August 2013. …

Unity in Diversity

Unity in Diversity is a duet between a human performer and a computer, where the human plays a keyboard synthesizer and the computer software listens, analyses, and responds in real time. This performance, utilising the …

Affecting Interference

This work by Daniel Mafe and Andrew Brown in 2012 is a combination of painting and digital sound into a single, large scale, immersive exhibition/installation. The work as a whole acts as an interstitial point …

SoundCipher

SoundCipher is a music and sound processing library for Processing version 1, which is mostly deprecated these days. Written in 2010 before the days of WebAudio, SoundCipher provided an easy way to create music in …

Sound Reflections

Sound Reflections: Your Music Learning Diary, is a student reflective journal and diary with attitude. It encourages considertion of all music activity in the classroom, instrumental studio, and ensemble, by providing a powerful tool for …

Solo Live Coding

My creative practice includes solo live coding performances. Live Coding involves writing software that makes music (or anything else If you prefer) as pat of the performance. It is a practice that is like improvised …