Category: creating

  • Algorave on the CyberYacht

    The lovely people in TOPLAP Berlin, CNDSD (@CNDSD_ on twitter) and Alexandra Cardenás organised an Algorave on the CyberYacht, a VR-ish “cyber party” on Mozilla hubs. I performed my work-in-progress live 3D printing techno set, which you can see here (my set starts 32:42 into this video): There were some other great performances – the…

  • Collaborative streams using Icecast, OBS and YouTube

    Collaborative streams using Icecast, OBS and YouTube

    Every spring, when the squirrels start foraging for nuts and bears awake from their long hungry slumber, livecoders from around the world crawl out of their sleepy dens to participate in a global series of online concerts. They call this livestreaming festival Eulerroom Equinox (yes, that’s a pun on the ubiquitous ‘Boiler Room’ series of…

  • A minilanguage for 3D printing ver 1

    This past week I’ve been in Brighton working on the MIMIC Project at the EMUTE Lab with the Sema development team, Thor and Francisco and Chris. Part of the project is about creating livecoding languages for machine learning, and we’ve spent a few days getting deep into their hackable livecoding language and software, called SEMA.…

  • LivePrinter at Goldsmiths for the Toplap 15 Birthday Algorave

  • The CyberAnthill

    The CyberAnthill

    I’ve been developing a new art work, The CyberAnthill. It’s loosely based on a space-filling cellular automaton that was in turn partially based on a cross between Langton’s Ant and the Tron light cycles game. It’s a way of filling up 2D spaces, like grids, with emergent systems that are unpredictable in their internal form…

  • BITLIP performances

    BITLIP performances

    About BITLIP BITLIP focuses on creating musical, listenable sounds that people can dance too. Coming from a background in both jazz and cut-and-paste sampling he tries to combine the controlled spontaneity of musical improvisation with the textural eeriness of found sounds. His influences are quite wide, ranging from minimalist techno, classic rap, Steve Reich, Alice…

  • Spirals just got real

    Spirals just got real

    We’re received a new shipment of Flashforge Creator Pro 3D printers at Ravensbourne and I got first crack at them to do some test printing.  It took a few attempts to get the settings right in the ReplicatorG software that they recommend for generating the printer files (hint – make sure to save models before generating…

  • Sound Spirals, Provocative Plastics, Oscilloscopes, Hands

    Sound Spirals, Provocative Plastics, Oscilloscopes, Hands

    I recently gave a talk at the Provocative Plastics conference at the Museum of Design in Plastics at the Arts University Bournemouth.   My presentation slides are online, and hopefully the video of the talk will be uploaded soon (as promised). Currently, The Sound Spirals are made with some custom software fast-prototyped in Processing (yes I…

  • Making Solid Sounds Talk at Dorkbot London Dec 15th 2014

    Making Solid Sounds Talk at Dorkbot London Dec 15th 2014

    I’ll be giving a talk Monday December 15th, 2014 at Dorkbot London about my work in sound sculpting.  This was partially inspired by some work I’ve done for the new BA (hons) Design & Coding course at Ravensbourne.

  • Gameshow Hack MozFest 2013 Finished

    Gameshow Hack MozFest 2013 Finished

    Success! The Mozilla Festival 2013 went very well, we created an online gameshow from scratch (including controllers) in about 2 hours and then played it! Thanks to everyone who participated, and especially Oli Evans, Alan Shaw, James Uren, and Will Pearson for hosting the quiz. The finished scoreboard system as a jsFiddle: The github repository…