August 24, 2023
Just heard that my new piece ‘El laberinto’ for voice, bass clarinet and general MIDI is going to be performed by Stephanie Lamprea and Alex South at the Scottish Awards for New Music 2023 on 1st September.
I say ’new piece’ – effectively this is revisiting and recontextualisation of an earlier piece ‘El laberinto de mi mente’.
Here’s what I’ve written about the new version:
The world has changed a lot since 1998, and I feel much less comfortable about my place in it.
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December 21, 2020
The tempation to ‘share’ on proprietary online platforms means that I don’t document my work here as frequently as I should! So, here’s a roundup of some things I’ve produced this year: as much a reminder to myself as anything else.
February ‘Perang Gagal: a Series of Inconclusive Battles’ at ICLC Limerick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6PXoRHwWFY https://github.com/tedthetrumpet/Perang-Gagal March two performances at Euleroom Equinox, a busk followed later by the ‘official’ set http://equinox.eulerroom.com/schedule.html https://youtu.be/AmF-L1WfPl8 https://youtu.
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February 4, 2020
Claire Quigley and Miriam Iorweth are curating a ‘Subsonic’ workshop and algorave at the Scottish Submarine Centre on Friday 20 March as part of the Euleroom Equinox 2020 livecoding event.
There is an introductory workshop 1930 to 2030, followed by an algorave 2030 to 1030. The workshop is free, the algorave is pay what you want.
If you’d like to take part in the workshop or are interested in performing at the algorave, contact Miriam:
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December 31, 2019
As 2019 draws to a close, I’m spending some time getting ready for the International Conference on Livecoding in February in Limerick. I put in two proposals. The first of these was to be called The ‘All-Pressure No-Method’ System, and would have involved me working with four live brass players. I say ‘would have’: this has had to be abandoned, we were not able to fund the travel and accomodation for the players.
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December 31, 2019
The work that I will be taking to ICLC 2020 in Limerick is entitled ‘Perang Gagal: a Series of Inconclusive Battles’, and is a collaboration with Professor Mel Mercier at the Irish Word Academy of Music and Dance. I will performing livecode in SuperCollider as part of a small gamelan ensemble let by Mel. Here’s the demo video I submitted to the conference call:
https://youtu.be/yN1STGvmRqY
I had thought that the eventual piece would be straightforward to devise, but it is proving trickier than I thought.
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December 31, 2019
In order to be able to work up sketches for ‘Perang Gagal’ at ICLC in Limerick, I wanted to use Logic to compose demos of the material for the live players that I could then improvise with in SuperCollider. This poses the problem of how to sync the pulse and tempo between the two programmes, which proved annoyingly difficult to accomplish!
Ideally, I would have liked to set the tempo in SuperCollider for Logic to follow.
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May 22, 2019
This week I’m taking my algorave work in a new direction. In collaboration with Bill Whitmer, we are going to be presenting a half-hour show called ‘Radio Automata Live in the Studio’ as part of Radiophrenia, a temporary art radio station broadcasting from the CCA in Glasgow.
The idea for the show is: if the last remaining creative decisions in broadcast radio were entirely automatic, would anyone notice? Bill has been experimenting with algorithmically generated text and chatbots for the spoken part of the show.
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February 18, 2019
I shared an algorave spot at Sound Thought with Claire Quigley, that was streamed as part of the TOPLAP 15th anniversary stream. You can see her set here and mine is here, although I have to say not that happy with the way my performance turned out on the day. The rehearsal was better:
https://youtu.be/zQwASJEnYEY
As you can see, combining my livecoding work with my passion for table tennis! And, in fact, this was a new technical discovery just the day before: it is possible to use Atom to livecode simultaneously in Hydra and SuperCollider, using a plugin for SC.
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January 28, 2019
I’m looking for music and/or visual artists working with live code who are interested in joining me for an improvised algorave as part of Sound Thought 2019.
‘Livecoding’ is a practice where creative artists who work with computer code perform live, often producing music and/or visuals, with the audience typically able to watch the evolution of the code on a projected screen. ‘Algorave’ is a subgenre where the aim is to produce beat-driven music and/or visuals for dancing.
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September 1, 2018
A short interview that Reverb Magazine did with me at the Sheffield Algorave 01/09/2018 – talking about combining livecoding, gamelan samples, and trumpet playing.
https://youtu.be/wX51frpG0TY