Welcome to the website! Here you can find information on my academic work, my music (and field recordings) and my current and previous projects, as well as my various blogs
Email: dave -at- mo-seph -dot- com
Twitter: @davemurrayrust
Below, you can find finished work on the left, and blogs/work in progress on the right.
I am currently working at the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability, in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. I work on agent based models of land use change: starting from socioeconimic data, creating models of human behaviour which respond to changing climate, sociopolitical and economic changes, and using scenario analysis to develop plausible futures based on coherent assumptions.
An Agent Based Model for analysing rural land use change with a changing climate, sociecomonic and political context. Created at GeoSciences in the Univeristy of Edinburgh as part of the EcoChange project.
An installation based around a large glass magnetic pendulum, a collection of illumiated magnetic pods with sensors and an interactive soundscape (with Owen Green and Agelos Papadakis)
A large multitouch surface, used for accesssing and aggregating of web searches in an exploratory way, using social knowledge from the web to create links and associations between different ideas. Created through Informatics at Edinburgh University, with Jon Oberlander and Richard Brown. A refined version with Lisa Mackenzie and Sam Booth, was displayed as part of the Senses of Place exhibition at The Lighthouse, thanks to Anne Cunningham.
My PhD work, creating musical systems which interact with themselves and human musicians. Includes a Tangible Interface and an experiment with human musicians.
A project with Artlink Edinburgh, looking at using technology to improve the quality of life for differently able people. In this case we were working with Andy, who has very limited mobility, and little vision, but a really strong sense of music and rhythm. Working with Alison Stirling and Steve Hollingsworth we created a customised music player adapted to his needs.
An archive of my field recordings. Includes hydrophones, binaural recordings and contact microphones
This is my second solo album, and the most widely listened to. It's one continuous piece of music, sliding from one imaginary landscape to another. (also on Free Music Archive and Black Lantern Music)
A collection of tracks from the last few years. Sparkling, wiggling, crunchy time signatures and dirty basses. (also on Free Music Archive and Black Lantern Music)
Review of Growth and Form and The Other Place: "The breadth of styles and influences absorbed is spectacular... Download both, get 'em on your mp3 player and set course for the middle of nowhere... real fucking wow music." - Liam Arnold, Team Little Rock / Shallow Rave
A collaboration between me and Josie Davis edited together from live recordings from the Skopje Bienalle, Skopje's "Indie Pub" and from studios in Edinburgh. Not easy listening, but can be rewarding. (2009) (also on Free Music Archive and Black Lantern)
Seven Selections and One Live Set
A demo from Kresch, my collaboration with Paul Keene. We play improvised electronic using laptop and keyboard. More recent music here and at The Kresch website
Triophon at dialogues
TR-I/O-FON Demo
A demo from my laptop trio with Owen Green (GungWho), Jules Rawlinson (pixelmechanic). Excerpts from live sets, and a full set from Dialogues 2008.
This was my first release - I got a load of covers printed, burnt about 50 odd cds, and went round selling them for a fiver.
Dave Murray-Rust is a postdoc with the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability, in GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained an MEng in Electrical and Information Systems from Cambridge, an MSc in Informatics from Edinburgh and PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Music from Edinburgh. His work centres around computational systems that model and interact with humans, including modelling of music as a communicative process, tangible and multitouch interfaces and models of human actions on landscapes and their impacts on ecosystems. In addition, he improvises electronic music and carries out interactive artistic projects.
We had a great opening for Thawing Colours at the Talbot Rice gallery. Lots of people came, and nothing broke. See full post for a selection of images and video from the opening:
In the last post, talking about my work with Andreas and Marc, we saw how a bit of data visualisation helped to understand why some output was looking funny, and how the choice of classifier contributed to some strange behaviour. In that case, we were really lucky to spot it. What we'd like now is some better ways to spot and avoid these problems in the future, so this post is about another way to have a look at this data, and make sure it looks reasonable - some "defensive visualisation".
Here's a video which summarises some data visualisation I've been doing recently. The rest of this post explains the story behind it.
Just got a bluetooth enabled drawing robot working. It's based on Sandy Noble's Polargraph and code+circuits from Matt Venn. It uses a pair of stepper motors to wind a pen carrying gondola across a sheet of paper.
Polar drawing bot wiggly lines
Alessandra Leone (http://www.alessandraleone.com/) has made a lovely video for one of my tracks:
See page on vimeo
Here is a video and my slides from This Happened Edinburgh No. 7. Great night, great talks from Oli Mival, Jonnet Middleton and Andy Farnell.
Here's a quick video of ChaoDependant footage, from a BMW launch in Milan:
This is an update of my presentation about art-science as an interdisciplinary activity, and why I like to do it, which I gave at Napier Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation. Not very text based, so might not be coherent on it's own.
art-sci title page
I've been working with LPJ-Guess recently. It's a digital vegetation model, but that's not important to this discussion. What's important is that it has it's own, non-standard config syntax. Editing this can be confusing, without the tools that we take for granted, like syntax highlighting, and outline editors etc.
The latest version Eclipse comes with Xtext, which is designed for easy generation of parsers and editors for DSLs, so this looks like a perfect test case.
Here's a presentation which I gave recently at a FuturICT meeting about art-science as an interdisciplinary activity, and why I like to do it.
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