All Outputs (27)

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.

Track by track: Generative music installation for BBC Music Day
Digital Artefact

A crowd-driven generative music installation at Bristol Temple Meads Station, for BBC Music Day 2018. A live camera feed of the platform is used with machine learning/vision analysis to identify positions and disposition of people, trains, bicycles,... Read More about Track by track: Generative music installation for BBC Music Day.