Outputs (26)

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.

Supporting creativity and motivation in learning programming: A musical treatment (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk discusses the use of an end-user computing environment to engage students with programming practice and computational thinking using the context of musical creativity. The talk will detail (with live demonstrations) interactions and lessons... Read More about Supporting creativity and motivation in learning programming: A musical treatment.

Thoughts on interactive generative music composition (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ability for machines to compose novel, interesting and human-esque music is an important and recurring theme in the history of computer music. Modern staff notation remains the most common tool for music composition, and despite the emergence and... Read More about Thoughts on interactive generative music composition.

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)
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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.

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.

The ‘E’ in QWERTY: Musical expression with old computer interfaces (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a development of the ubiquitous computer keyboard to capture velocity and other continuous musical properties, in order to support more expressive interaction with music software. Building on existing ‘virtual piano’ utilities, th... Read More about The ‘E’ in QWERTY: Musical expression with old computer interfaces.

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.