Research and practice

Recent and upcoming events and performances are listed over here.

• I do solo work as Yaxu, including Spicule LP crowdfund, and Peak Cut EP already released on the Computer Club label.
• slub live ambient gabba with Ade Ward and Dave Griffiths
• I started the TidalCycles live coding environment, now a free/open source project
• I curate the annual Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement
• I’m starting a part-time postdoc working on Ellen Harlizius-Klück‘s PENELOPE project at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, from autumn 2016.
• Sound Choreography <> Body Code, a live coding + live choreography project with Kate Sicchio
• dorkbotsheffield (and formerly dorkbotlondon) meetings
• TOPLAP organisation for promotion of live algorithm programming, with many others
• Algorave with whoever will listen
• Eulerroom likewise
• Aalleexx livecode duo with Alexandra Cardenas
• xynaaxmue audiovisual noise duo with xname
• Canute, a live coding + v-drum project with Matthew Yee-King
• Conferences and workshops – I co-founded the international Live Interfaces and Live Coding conferences, and still involved with them in a steering capacity, and am also involved with the FARM workshop, as well as various paper committees.
• I’m working on the Oxford Handbook on Algorithmic Music with Roger Dean

Recent-ish complete/mostly inactive projects

• During 2016 I was sound artist in residence at the Open Data Institute in London, supported by Sound and Music
• PhD Arts and Computational Technology at Goldsmiths College, University of London (thesis available)
• runme.org software art repository with Amy Alexander, Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin and others
• Live Notation with Hester Reeve, funded by the AHRC
• A Sound and Music Composer-Curatorship from March 2014-March 2015
• Hession/McLean Duo, a free jazz improv project with Paul Hession
• Declaration Kriol, giving voice to an avatar with the roots band Rafiki Jazz
• Silicone Bake with Jake Harries
• Chordpunch recordings with Nick Collins
• Weaving code: learning computer programming through pattern and craft, a collaborative project with Becky Parry, Kia Ng, LoveBytes and ArtBoat. This is spun off from a research theme lead by Ellen Harlizius-Klück, who is a project partner along with Dave Griffiths.
• Communications with EunJoo, Shin
• Research Fellow in Human/Technology Interface and Deputy Director of ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds. Part of the Culture, Society and Innovation Hub.
• The Live Coding Research Network funded by the AHRC, co-lead with Thor Magnusson
• Weaving codes – coding weaves, Principal Investigator of an AHRC Digital Transformations Amplification project running for 18 months from September 2014.