My collaboration with Anne Parouty is on show until early May in the Bramall Music Building Foyer at the University of Birmingham. This is an audiovisual installation consisting of Anne’s beautiful cyanotype prints of kelps, and sounds derived from numerous recording trips to Wales. This is the culmination of two years of work, so we’re …
BEER at ICLC
We’ll be at the International Conference on Live Coding in Hamilton Canada this week. Workshop on Utopia on Wed, Concert with our Dark Matter project on Thurs. Details here: http://iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2016/schedule.html
BEAST FEaST 2017 Call for Works/Installations/Talks
Should be a good one! Please submit and share. Deadline Sept 2nd. http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/beast-feast-2017-call-for-workstalksinstallations/
Talk at Creative Responses to Place workshop
I’ve been invited to present a talk called Space in Electronic Music in Space: An Informal Introduction to a Convoluted Problem at the Creative Responses to Place workshop at Keele University, July 4th. This will focus on different aspects of space in (especially electronic) music, with some examples from my own stuff. Should be an …
BEER@CERN
Hot on the heels of our performance in Athens Konstantinos Vasilakos and I will be representing BEER at the art@CMS Summer Vernissage at CERN, performing our Dark Matter project. June 22nd, 18:30 CMS point 5, Cessy, France. Thanks to Angelos Alexopoulos and Maurizio Pierini for their ongoing enthusiasm and help.
BEER Koumaria Residency / Concert in Athens
As part of our ongoing Dark Matter project with Art@CMS at CERN BEER will be undertaking a residency in the village of Koumaria in Greece (around Sparta) June 6-10th. On the 10th we’ll travel to Athens and give a concert and talk at the American College of Greece. More detail…
Video and Audio of head-neck-chest-four-five-six-thing
Video and audio is now up of the premiere of head-neck-chest-four-five-six-thing by the wonderful Fidelio Trio. The piece is sort of around and about the pelog scale that’s found in gamelan music. It was a wonderful experience to work with them, and a great performance as you can see and hear!
New work with Arraymusic and Rick Sacks
On April 5th Toronto’s Arraymusic, a veritable fountain of exciting new work for decades, will premiere my Do not exceed recommended dosage. This features the explosively musical Rick Sacks on MalletKat, an electronic percussion instrument driving new synthesis algorithms I’ve written. 8PM at the Array Space. Should be a barn burner!
Poznań Spring
I’ll be giving a solo live coding performance in Poland as part of the long running PozĹ„an Spring festival on March 20th. It’s at Sala Błękitna, Akademia Muzyczna im.  Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego, at 17:00. Thanks to the always amazing Lidia ZieliĹ„ska, whose music is featured elsewhere in the festival, for inviting me.
BEER: Dark Matter
The first stage of our ongoing collaboration with the Art@CMS project at CERN will have an initial outing in the University’s Arts and Sciences Festival, Thursday March 17, 7:30PM at Birmingham Open Media. We’ll be sonifying data from the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Here’s a cap of some work in …