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Creativity in children's digital music composition (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Ford, C., Bryan-Kinns, N., & Nash, C. (2021). Creativity in children's digital music composition. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.e83deee9

Composing is a neglected area of music education. To increase participation, many technologies provide open-ended interfaces to motivate child autodidactic use, drawing influence from Papert’s LOGO philosophy to support children’s learning through pl... Read More about Creativity in children's digital music composition.

Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Nash, C. (2020). Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan. In F. Schroeder, & R. Michon (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (259-264)

This paper details technologies and artistic approaches to crowd-driven music, discussed in the context of a live public installation in which activity in a public space (e.g. a busy railway platform) is used to drive the automated composition and pe... Read More about Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan.