All Outputs (26)

Automatic for the people: Crowd-driven generative scores using Manhattan and machine vision (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper details a workshop and optional public installation based on the development of situational scores that combine music notation, AI, and code to create dynamic interactive art driven by the realtime movements of objects and people in a live... Read More about Automatic for the people: Crowd-driven generative scores using Manhattan and machine vision.

Automatic for the people: Two pieces of crowd-driven music (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

A video presenting excepts from two pieces of live generative works developed for BBC Music Day 2018, performed continuously throughout the day on the busy main platform of Bristol railway station. Both pieces are generated (and played) live using th... Read More about Automatic for the people: Two pieces of crowd-driven music.

Creativity in children's digital music composition (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Was that me?: Exploring the effects of error in gestural digital musical instruments (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Traditional Western musical instruments have evolved to be robust and predictable, responding consistently to the same player actions with the same musical response. Consequently, errors occurring in a performance scenario are typically attributed to... Read More about Was that me?: Exploring the effects of error in gestural digital musical instruments.

Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Composing computer generated music, an observational study using IGME: the Interactive Generative Music Environment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Computer composed music remains a novel and challenging problem to solve. Despite an abundance of techniques and systems little research has explored how these might be useful for end-users looking to compose with generative and algorithmic music tec... Read More about Composing computer generated music, an observational study using IGME: the Interactive Generative Music Environment.

Automating algorithmic representations of musical structure using IGME: The Interactive Generative Music Environment (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we explore the recreation of existing musical compositions by representing the music as a series of unique musical bars, and other bars that can be replicated through various algorithmic transformations, inside the Interactive Generativ... Read More about Automating algorithmic representations of musical structure using IGME: The Interactive Generative Music Environment.

Simple mappings, expressive movement: a qualitative investigation into the end-user mapping design of experienced mid-air musicians (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In a New Interface for Musical Expression (NIME), the design of the relationship between a musician’s actions and the instrument’s sound response is critical in creating instrume... Read More about Simple mappings, expressive movement: a qualitative investigation into the end-user mapping design of experienced mid-air musicians.

A cognitive dimensions approach for the design of an interactive generative score editor (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper describes how the Cognitive Dimensions of Notation can guide the design of algorithmic composition tools. Prior research has also used the cognitive dimensions for analysing interaction design for algorithmic composition software. This wor... Read More about A cognitive dimensions approach for the design of an interactive generative score editor.

The Manhattan project: Creativity and computing synthesised (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop provides a demonstration of the Manhattan digital environment, a platform designed to support and motivate learning programming through musical creativity. The software combines music editing with a scalable level of coding – from simpl... Read More about The Manhattan project: Creativity and computing synthesised.

How can music visualisation techniques reveal different perspectives on musical structure? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Standard western notation supports the understanding and performance of music, but has limited provisions for revealing overall musical characteristics and structure. This paper presents several visualisers for highlighting and providing insights int... Read More about How can music visualisation techniques reveal different perspectives on musical structure?.

A user experience review of music interaction evaluations (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The need for thorough evaluations is an emerging area of interest and importance in music interaction research. As a large degree of DMI evaluation is concerned with exploring the subjective experience: ergonomics, action-sound mappings and control i... Read More about A user experience review of music interaction evaluations.

Manhattan Circus (2017)
Other

Collaboration is an interesting endeavour! Particularly when it involves examining and subsequently articulating aspects of one’s compositional process that can then be expressed as computer code and then realised by software through collaboration.... Read More about Manhattan Circus.

The trinity test: Workshop on unified notations for practices and pedagogies in music and programming (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper outlines a workshop to explore intersections of programming and music in digital notation. With the aid of the Manhattan music programming and sequencing environment (Nash, 2014), methods for representing both high-level processes and low-... Read More about The trinity test: Workshop on unified notations for practices and pedagogies in music and programming.

Manhattan: Serious games for serious music (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper details a digital platform designed for digital creativity, learning, and engagement with new concepts and aesthetics in both music and coding. An open online ecosystem is outlined, connecting users for the purposes of collating, sharing,... Read More about Manhattan: Serious games for serious music.

GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor (2016)
Journal Article

This paper presents GestureChords, a mapping strategy for chord selection in freehand gestural instruments. The strategy maps chord variations to a series of hand postures using the concepts of iconicity and conceptual metaphor, influenced by their u... Read More about GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor.

The cognitive dimensions of music notations (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents and adapts the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework (Green and Petre, 1996) for use in designing and analysing notations (and user interfaces) in both digital and traditional music practice and study. Originally developed t... Read More about The cognitive dimensions of music notations.

Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper details the development of Turnector, a control system based upon tangible widgets that are manipulated on the touchscreen of a capacitive touch device. Turnector widgets are modelled on rotary faders and aim to connect the user to paramet... Read More about Turnector: Tangible control widgets for capacitive touchscreen devices.

Manhattan: End-user programming for music (2014)
Book Chapter

This paper explores the concept of end-user programming languages in music composition, and introduces the Manhattan system, which integrates formulas with a grid-based style of music sequencer. Following the paradigm of spreadsheets, an established... Read More about Manhattan: End-user programming for music.

Flow of creative interaction with digital music notations (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter highlights disjunctions between usability approaches and the needs of creative music practices, drawing on research into creativity and human–computer interaction (HCI) to integrate concepts of flow, virtuosity, and liveness into the des... Read More about Flow of creative interaction with digital music notations.