I got a couple of kind mentions etc lately: Dazed and Confused May issue – an interview with Stephen Fortune about live coding and algorave, see the photo over there for proof, and I’ll post the full text here once it’s off the shelves. I got a mention in a lovely article “coding the software/art nexus” [...]
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 [...]
Live coding blogging
by Alex on December 4, 2012
In case anyone is wondering why I’m not saying much about live coding these days, it’s because http://toplap.org/ has turned into an active blog, and I’m contributing a lot of my live codey thoughts to it. See you over there!
Audio blast festival
by Alex on November 22, 2012
Audio blast is a streaming festival by apo33, running in both Nantes and Piksel festival in Bergen. I’m performing this Saturday November 24th, for an hour from 7pm GMT (8pm CET). I’ll be streaming quadrophonic sound from my studio in Sheffield, which will be played in both spaces, with a stream for remote listeners from [...]
SmoothDirt programme notes
by Alex on June 21, 2012
I’m doing a few solo performances over the next days, in Cambridge, Uxbridge and Birmingbridge. Here’s the programme notes/rationale; Yaxu – SmoothDirt From a linear perspective of time, live coding will always be somewhat distant from human experience. As computer programming is a fundamentally indirect manipulation of sound, is live coding really live? If we [...]
Cog
by Alex on May 16, 2012
Starting to record music again..
Live interfaces: Performance, Art, Music conferece
by Alex on May 11, 2012
Happily we’ve been awarded some funding for a conference on live performance technology from Vitae Yorkshire! This will be a great start to my new position in ICSRiM. Here’s the call: LIVE INTERFACES Performance, Art, Music http://icsrim.org.uk/liveinterfaces/ Date: 7th-8th September, 2012 Venue: ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES [...]
Fellowship
by Alex on March 23, 2012
I’m excited to be joining Kia Ng in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music (ICSRiM) within the faculty of Performance, Visual Arts & Communications (PVAC) for the new academic year, as a two year fellowship. I’ll be a research fellow in Human/Technology Interface, a research strand supported within the cross disciplinary Culture, Society & Innovation Hub. All [...]
Events
by Alex on March 13, 2012
A busy couple of weeks ahead: This weekend (Saturday 17th March) I am playing as part of slub at a live algorave in London. Then the following weekend I’m doing a few things at the 2012 Lovebytes festival in Sheffield: Thursday 22nd March – An experimental (as in we don’t know what will happen) performance with Hester Reeve as part of [...]
Quick custom Linux live CDs for workshops
by Alex on November 13, 2011
People bring all kinds of laptops to workshops, and installing your software on them might take hours. So it’s nice to just give everyone a bootable USB stick or CD, containing a live linux distribution (i.e. one that runs straight from the USB stick/CD) and the software. This can get a room full of people [...]