All Outputs (17)

The art and ‘science’ of opera: composing, staging & designing new forms of interactive theatrical performance (2017)
Conference Proceeding

New technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are steadily having an impact upon the world of opera. The evolving use of performance-based software such as Ableton Live and Max/MSP has created new and excit... Read More about The art and ‘science’ of opera: composing, staging & designing new forms of interactive theatrical performance.

An agent on my shoulder: AI, privacy and the application of human-like computing technologies to music creation (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Human-Like Computing technologies are intelligent systems that interact with people in human-like way. By bringing together the disciplines of Artificial Intelligence, Ethnography and Interaction Design, and applying them in a real world context we... Read More about An agent on my shoulder: AI, privacy and the application of human-like computing technologies to music creation.

Hearing the humanities: sonifying Steele’s Shakespeare (2017)
Conference Proceeding

We present initial work that explores the use of sonification to represent Joshua Steele’s symbolic notation. This provides a manner of overhearing a previous performance and testing the method’s reproducibility and uncertainties within it.

Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This poster describes a compositional technique that used crowd-sourced midi clips in order to develop a piece of music, which was later performed. This work in progress highlighted some of the issues facing the designers of systems that enable the ‘... Read More about Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity.

Are the robots coming? Designing with autonomy & control for musical creativity & performance (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper1 expands upon our previous work, and starts to unpack notions of autonomy and control in musical composition and performance-based systems. The term autonomous has become synonymous with technologies such as “autonomous vehicles” and “dron... Read More about Are the robots coming? Designing with autonomy & control for musical creativity & performance.

Mapping media and meaning: autoethnography as an approach to designing personal heritage soundscapes (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The paper presents reflections on understanding the issues of designing of locative sonic memory-scapes. As physical space and digital media become ever more intertwined, together forming and augmenting meaning and experience, we need methods to furt... Read More about Mapping media and meaning: autoethnography as an approach to designing personal heritage soundscapes.

Audio technology and mobile human-computer interaction: from space and place, to social media, music, composition and creation (2017)
Journal Article

Audio-based mobile technology is opening up a range of new interactive possibilities. This paper brings some of those possibilities to light by offering a range of perspectives based in this area. It is not only the technical systems that are develop... Read More about Audio technology and mobile human-computer interaction: from space and place, to social media, music, composition and creation.

Unfolding the interplay of self-identity and expressions of territoriality in location-based social networks (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Self-identity in mobile location-based social networks (LBSN) is a relatively underexplored topic. In this paper, we present our initial understandings on the role that LBSN play in the self-identity of its users and introduce a relationship between... Read More about Unfolding the interplay of self-identity and expressions of territoriality in location-based social networks.

The gift of the algorithm: beyond autonomy and control (2017)
Other

This piece brings together, participation, algorithmic composition and augmentation (as a mechanism by which people can work together to augment and support a composer’s workflow). The performance is about understanding the ways in which composition... Read More about The gift of the algorithm: beyond autonomy and control.

A network of noise: designing with a decade of data to sonify JANET (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The existing sonification of networks mainly focuses on security. Our novel approach is framed by the ways in which network traffic changes over the national JANET network. Using a variety of sonification techniques, we examine the user context, how... Read More about A network of noise: designing with a decade of data to sonify JANET.

Special theme on privacy and the Internet of Things (2017)
Journal Article

Building a maker community around an open hardware platform (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper reflects on the dynamics and practices of building a maker community around a new hardware platform. We ex- amine the factors promoting the successful uptake of a maker platform from two perspectives: first, we investigate the tech- nical... Read More about Building a maker community around an open hardware platform.

"Get off my lawn!": Starting to understand territoriality in location based mobile games (2017)
Conference Proceeding

With the increasing popularity of mobile video games, game designers and developers are starting to integrate geolocation information into such games. Although popular location-based games (LBGs) such as Ingress and Pokémon Go have millions of users,... Read More about "Get off my lawn!": Starting to understand territoriality in location based mobile games.

Playing fast and loose with music recognition (2017)
Conference Proceeding

We report lessons from iteratively developing a music recognition system to enable a wide range of musicians to embed musical codes into their typical performance practice. The musician composes fragments of music that can be played back with varying... Read More about Playing fast and loose with music recognition.

Interconnected alchemy: an apparatus for alchemical algorithms (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The trope of the fraudulent or occult alchemist, prevalent since the mediaeval period of alchemy’s introduction into European thought, belies the endeavour of practitioners from ancient Egypt onwards. Alchemists used observation, experimentation, and... Read More about Interconnected alchemy: an apparatus for alchemical algorithms.

"They're all going out to something weird": Workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process (2017)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper we use results from two ethnographic studies of the music production process to examine some key issues regarding how work is currently accomplished in studio production environments. These issues relate in particular to workflows and h... Read More about "They're all going out to something weird": Workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process.

Rich digital collaborations in a small rural community (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we describe experience in the design and installation of a low-cost multi-touch table in a rural island community. We discuss the creation of the table including: pragmatic challenges of installation, and then re-installation as the... Read More about Rich digital collaborations in a small rural community.