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 …
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 …
Digital arts practices have implications for education effecting the form and modality of work by staff and students and posing challenges for contemporary curriculum in the creative arts. This post will introduce three issues that …
Andrew R. Brown One of the great things about music is that it is multifaceted. It can be many things to many people, and you can spend a lifetime studying it but still not be …
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 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 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 …
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 …
The term ‘research’ is used in many ways, for example “I’m doing research about which car to purchase.” Such research is very helpful. The information found is likely new to you, but not to the …
Sound Musicianship is a book I edited for music educators and musicians about musicianship—about musical skills, abilities, habits, sensibilities and understandings. Like most crafts, music requires a balance of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that …
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: 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 …
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 …
The AV Jam system is exhibiting at the beta_space facility within the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, Australia. AV Jam is a generative audio-visual system that is controlled by multiple MIDI sliders. It is designed to encourage …
The theory of meaningful engagement is a philosophy of education that draws together research by Steve Dillon and myself. It represents a significant shift in educational philosophy with its emphasis on education as primarily concerned …
SoDaR is an approach to research that involves software development as an active research method in the humanities. This theory describes how software development can be used as a method for research in the arts …
My research shows that creative activity is most importantly directed by how interested and involved a person is during the creative experience. It has also revealed, on closer examination, particular ways in which this experience …
Through the work Slice-Flower Andrew Soresne and Andrew R. Brown (aka: aa-cell) explore the aesthetic potential of computational expression. The work is part of a series that explore the potential of algorithms that occupy 10 …
ActivePixels is an application designed by Andrew R. Brown and Daniel Mafe, and programmed by Brown. It uses generative processes based on cellular automata-like rules relating to colours in a grid formation. Building on a …
Binary Beats is a probabilistic drum machine I wrote so to produce variable drum beats with some musical sense. Its quite amazing how prominent powers of two (binary) numbers are in music with a simple …
