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Category Archives: Music
Rushed Snares
My latest album was released yesterday. It’s the final release in Superpang’s digital-only series which started with Liminal Kicks (SP01) in 2020. Rushed Snares (SP200) is a follow-up, designed to end this first chapter of the label with a return … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Music
Tagged drumming, drums, Liminal Kicks, Mathematica, MIDI, music, OEIS, Rushed Snares, software, Superpang
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Hard Return Compilation
The Hard Return label run by Jack Chuter, for which I made its very first release, has put out a big compilation album today. 66 artists responded to Jack’s call to submit “the most repetitive thing you’ve ever done”. My … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Music, Science
Tagged genome sequence, Hard Return, Jack Chuter, Mathematica, SARS-CoV-2, sonification
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2023
The best thing I’ve done this year is take on leadership of my archery club to save it from closure after the previous chairman stepped down when the club was facing increasing costs and dwindling membership. It’s been a steep … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Research
Tagged 7FO, a0n0, Ahl Nana, Autechre, Éliane Radigue, BECKTON ALPS2, Ben Peers, Catherine Christer Hennix, Catherynne M. Valente, Chris Douglas, Dan McQuillan, Daniel M Karlsson, Emily M Bender, Everyday Samething, Kieran Daly, LOLTRAX, Lucy Railton, Mary Jane Leach, Nathan Ho, Paradox, Pentangle, Pomu Rainpuff, SDEM, Terrine, Theo Burt, Timnit Gebru, Tokinogake, Tom Mudd, Umeko Ando, Wooli Bodin
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Shedding – This Is My Horn, Vol. 1
Shedding – Connor Bell, from Louisville, Kentucky – has a new album out based on a gestural and improvisational approach to electronic music synthesis. The idea being a search to perhaps bridge my love for solo and duo jazz recordings … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Music, Visual
Tagged album, artwork, block cellular atomaton, cellular automata, Connor Bell, generative, Shedding, This Is My Horn
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2022
If the amount of time, attention and money spent on the death of a monarch had instead been focused on inequality and sustainability, we might not be in quite as much trouble with national economic and global environmental crises. It’s … Continue reading
Sean on Autechre’s Reverb
Yesterday, Sean Booth of Autechre did an ‘ask me anything’ stream on Twitch.tv. I watched the last half live, and today I caught up with some of the bits I’d missed at the start. I was pleased to find that … Continue reading
Blood Music Birthday
Last night was the Blood Music Birthday event at Iklectik, London. This was a gig to celebrate Simon Pomery’s recent birthday. The line-up was: UAN – minimal, morphing repetitive beats En Creux – no-input mixing me – video + audio … Continue reading
Posted in analysis, Audio, Complexity, Music, Visual
Tagged Blood Music, en creux, Iklectik, Roberto Crippa, S McEvoy, Tom Mudd, UAN
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Get This: 32 Tracks For Free – A Tribute to Peter Rehberg
The loss of Peter Rehberg prompted the $ pwgen 20 collective to express their grief by making music in his honour. This activity snowballed into a larger collaborative project as more and more artists expressed a desire to contribute. The … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged $ pwgen 20, 32 tracks for free, Editions Mego, Get This, Peter Rehberg
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Choral mix for Tokinogake
I was invited to make a mix for Tokingake radio, so I put together a mix of choral music. It was streamed on 15th January, alongside a mix by alkaloide and sessions by Yaporigami and William Fields. Here’s the track … Continue reading
2021
Last year’s round-up didn’t include anything on the environment or politics; it was difficult to write about it because it was all bad news. Things haven’t changed, and COP26 was a failure. Here’s the latest data on CO2 levels: My … Continue reading
Aesthetic Complexity 