I’m having a bit of a breather at the moment, but here’s some of the things I am up to over the Summer: 16th May 2013 Another Algorave on the MS Stubnitz. The last one was masses of fun, and really looking forward to seeing what the next one turns up.. May 27-30 2013 I won’t [...]
New projects and events
by Alex on March 13, 2013
Taking stock of the new and fast-developing projects I’m involved with. Sound Choreography <> Body Code A performance which creates a feedback loop through code, music, choreography, dance and back through code, in collaboration with Kate Sicchio. First performance is this Friday at Audio:Visual:Motion in Manchester. The sourcecode for the sound choreographer component is already available, which [...]
Women in computer music
by Alex on March 6, 2013
(An earlier version of this post was directed at some other events in addition to mine, but these references turned out to be factually incorrect and more upsetting for the people involved than I could have imagined, partly because they have been working tirelessly and successfully to address the below concerns. Sincere apologies.) Here’s an [...]
Happy new year + upcoming
by Alex on December 27, 2012
Looking forward to 2013, some things I’m up to so far: 15th Feb: talk and solo performance at the Node symposium, Frankfurt Late Feb (date tbc): slub at the Bartlett nexus, London 22-24th Feb: slub at the network music festival, Birmingham 5th March: Talk at the Leeds Psychogeography Group – my sister is doing this one now! 14-15th March (tbc): Talk + [...]
Busy week
by Alex on November 21, 2012
That was fun.. First, full slub (Dave, Ade and I) at the Mozilla party. The most interested crowd we’ve had, it was hard to get any live coding done between all the questions! Dave collected some photos from the many that appeared online.. Then to Mexico City for the week-long /* vivo */ live coding festival. [...]
Upcoming events in November
by Alex on October 3, 2012
I’m hoping to keep October clear for getting things done, but November is looking fun: 10th November, full Slub performance at the Mozilla party in at the National Film Museum, London. 12-17th November, off to the /* vivo */ International Live Coding Symposium in Mexico City. I’ll be giving a talk called “Is live coding really [...]
Upcoming events in September
by Alex on September 2, 2012
7/8th September 2012, Leeds – Live Interfaces As my first act as research fellow at ICSRiM, I’m chairing this conference on live interaction in performance technology, two days of papers and performances, including a (free) club night. The quality of submissions has been fantastic, and we have people coming from 11 different countries outside the [...]
Upcoming events and things
by Alex on June 15, 2012
Fresh back from holiday, with a lot of things coming up: Thursday 21st June, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge Live coding at the opening of the Poetry, Language, Code exhibition http://visualisecambridge.org/?p=262 Friday 22nd June, BEAM Festival, Brunel University, Uxbridge Talking about live coding during the day and performing in the evening http://www.beamfestival.com/ Friday 29th June, InterFace2012, Birmingham [...]
Live notation
by Alex on January 30, 2012
I’m really excited to be working with Hester Reeve on a project funded by the AHRC digital transformations call, bringing together live artists and live coders for a dialogue, hopefully leading to new ideas and approaches within both fields. Live artists work with their body as a medium, and live coders work with abstract symbols, and it will [...]
PhD Viva and Silicone Bake
by Alex on December 1, 2011
Last month was a bit crazy, lots of grant applications in the air and amongst it all my PhD examination with Alan Blackwell and Matthew Fuller. Both are leaders in different fields, it was a real privilege for me to have time with them. It turned out to be a really enjoyable discussion, and they identified [...]