All Outputs (11)

Harmonic Materials: Composing with found objects and a camera-based synthesiser (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Emerging discourse concerning material drift and decentring the human in Music Technology research is often centred around designing new musical instruments, but the process of composing materials is made explicit, and where, at times, the composer i... Read More about Harmonic Materials: Composing with found objects and a camera-based synthesiser.

Entangling with light and shadow: Layers of interaction with the pattern organ, a camera-based wavetable synthesiser (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the design and use of a camera-based digital musical instrument as a thinking tool for considering entangled, post-human perspectives. The design of the pattern organ, inspired by experimental optical sound-on-film practices, empl... Read More about Entangling with light and shadow: Layers of interaction with the pattern organ, a camera-based wavetable synthesiser.

Looping slowly: Diffraction through the lens of nostalgia (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper concerns magnetic tape and the nostalgia of media, finding new relevance in old technology, remaking and adapting practices to fit within a modern workflow. Pushing against the driving force of economic structures, which emphasises a conti... Read More about Looping slowly: Diffraction through the lens of nostalgia.

Insights into how digital luthiers approach design (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The design of digital musical instruments represents a complex role that incorporates creative practice, design and engineering. It is, of course, a deep discussion topic and research focus within the NIME community. This paper discusses how digital... Read More about Insights into how digital luthiers approach design.

Motivating programming language design for digital lutherie (2024)
Thesis

Digital lutherie is a sub-domain of digital craft focused on creating digital musical instruments: high-performance devices for musical expression. It represents a nuanced and challenging area of human-computer interaction that is well established an... Read More about Motivating programming language design for digital lutherie.

Studying how digital luthiers choose their tools (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Digital lutherie is a sub-domain of digital craft focused on creating digital musical instruments: high-performance devices for musical expression. It represents a nuanced and challenging area of human-computer interaction that is well established an... Read More about Studying how digital luthiers choose their tools.

Digital Expression and Representation of Rhythm (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Music provides a means to explore time by sequencing musical events in a seemingly endless and expressive way. This potential often far exceeds the ability of digital systems to enable composers and performers to explore musical time, perhaps due to... Read More about Digital Expression and Representation of Rhythm.

Fun with Interfaces (SVG Interfaces for Musical Expression) (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we address the design and implementation of custom controller interfaces, bridging the issue of user mapping between action and sound in interactive music systems. A simple framework utilizing functional specifications for musical inter... Read More about Fun with Interfaces (SVG Interfaces for Musical Expression).

Return to temperament (In digital systems) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Considering the generation of musical tunings, it is reasonable to expect that the many constructs contained in Functional programming languages may provide useful tools for exploring both conventional and new tunings. In this paper we present a numb... Read More about Return to temperament (In digital systems).

Outside the block syndicate: Translating Faust's algebra of blocks to the arrows framework (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Folklore has it that Faust’s algebra of blocks can be represented in Hughes’ algebra of Arrows. In this paper we formalise this understanding, showing that blocks can indeed be encoded with Causal Commutative Arrows.
Whilst an interesting finding in... Read More about Outside the block syndicate: Translating Faust's algebra of blocks to the arrows framework.

Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Camera-based motion tracking has become a popular enabling technology for gestural human-computer interaction. However, the approach suffers from several limitations, which have been shown to be particularly problematic when employed within musical c... Read More about Leimu: Gloveless music interaction using a wrist mounted leap motion.