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You might be interested in my academic work, artworks, software, music and sound or creative technology projects. Selected blog posts below, or the whole thing here.
Live at LLEAPP
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There's a video up of a performance I did with Cavan Fyans, Adam Parkinson, Shiori Usui at the Bongo Club in Edinburgh.
We had 2 days to put together an improvised, electronic performance with new people. Our practise focussed around trying to have "musical" interactions while using the laptops. So, we worked on listening exercises, and structures which helped us to keep a sense of space and identity while playing.
Truth Table Video up
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I've finally gotten around to uploading my Truth Table video to Vimeo:
Kinetica Photos
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Chaodependant
I'm going to use this post to collect photos and media from Kinetica 2010. To start with, here's Parag's Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkmital/sets/72157623393186086/
Chaodependant and Memory are going to London
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ChaoDependant feet
Chaodependant Reconstruction
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The last times Chaodependant go shown, it worked great, but the carpet base it was on looked awful. So, for taking it down to [1] we decided to put it on a more professional platform. Apart from aesthetics, we also wanted to address the problem that the pendulum gets further away from the pods towards the end of it's swing, and hence they have less effect on the movement.
Java libraries for ESRI ASCII Raster files
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I've repeatedly come across the need to read or write Raster files in Java. These are data files which represent a rectangular grid of data using ASCII representations of numbers. An example, from [1]: