Late summer events

I’ve had a paper accepted to ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) in Belfast. My paper isn’t directly about livecoding but … More

The physical modelling of drums using digital waveguides

Joel Laird completed a fine PhD thesis on physical modelling drums in 2001, which included C++ sourcecode for an accurate … More

instructionset

A brand new website: http://instructionset.org/ The idea is that every month some instructions appear and passersby add their implementations in … More

Rhythm space

I’m working with Jamie Forth on ideas around spaces of rhythm. Here’s a demo (which might not work in feed … More

First vocable output from a waveguide membrane

Very early stuff but a rendering of the vocable word sebosebesusasobesebosebasusasobesebosebesusasobesobosebesusasobesebosebesusasobesebosebasusasobesebosebesusasobesobosebesusasobe is here. (any website layout breakage is intentional) The … More

Waveguide mesh unit generator

After quite a bit of fiddling, I got a waveguide mesh working. It’s a physical model of a drum head, … More

Creative constraints

Here’s an interesting response to my earlier post about how test driven development does not necessarily apply to all problem … More

Following your imagination

This entertaining article supporting test-first development has been playing on my mind. The article is beautifully written so it is … More

Livecoding at V2

A nice video of the livecoding sessions at v2 last month. Florian Cramer starts with an interesting take on livecoding, … More

Textual patching

I wrote a perl script that allows you to compose puredata patches in a text editor. You define the patch … More