Outputs (5)

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.

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.

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.