The Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices Category : Installation, SoundVisit the project website The Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices is a project about building musical instruments that don’t work...
jumpSynth Category : Electronics, Installation, Performance, Resource, Sound, VideoA trampoline-based portable synthesizer for making noise in the woods alone. Built as part of my research for my position...
Sound Signatures Category : Soundscreen printed spectrogram, ‘Sound Signature’ series, P51 (WWII era fighter with Merlin engine) In 2015 I spent two months at...
Prayer Request Category : Electronics, Performance, SoundThis instrument uses candles to control sounds. It takes four sounds – requests for prayers uploaded publicly to youtube –...
Unity & Pd Tutorials Category : Games, Resource, SoundA video tutorial series, with accompanying code, showing how to integrate Pure Data into Unity using libPdIntegration by Niall Moody....
EN-20 minimalist listening device Category : Electronics, Installation, Performance, SoundThe EN-20 is the spiritual (and technical) successor to my EN-1 granular sampling synthesizer. I took the code from the...
deathIncrease Category : Electronics, Installation, SoundAn instrument/installation that plays a number of fragments of prayer requests about COVID-19 that people have uploaded to YouTube. The...
PdWebParty Tutorials Category : Resource, SoundA video tutorial series, with accompanying code and playable audio toys, for using the PdWebParty system by Zack Lee to...
The Drip EP Category : Music, SoundI contributed a track to The Drip EP, released on vinyl and digital by Accidental Jnr in July 2018. The...
Ritual (Prayer Request) Category : Installation, SoundSound installation commissioned by Sanctuary Lab, shown at Sanctuary in the Galloway Dark Sky Park in September 2017. This installation...
Neither Here Nor There Category : Installation, SoundA surround-sound piece for blindfolded audience on canal boat. From June to early August 2015 I was the artist in...
Petite Robusto (random MIDI sequencer) Category : Electronics, Music, Resource, SoundPetite Robusto is a randomised MIDI note pattern generator, built into a cigar box. Code available here. I designed and...
Kronoscillator Category : Music, Performance, SoundA new instrument developed with Martin Green for the Kronos Quartet. Photo Credit: Colston Hall & Ross Slicocks, from the...
Workshops Category : Electronics, Music, Resource, SoundI’m currently developing a new set of workshops focused on building fun musical instruments and controllers. The first DIY MIDI...
Serious Work, Serious Danger Category : Music, SoundA project with Bonnie Brae Productions for the Forestry Commission Scotland. The idea was to take the sounds of timber...
AntiTheory Category : Music, Resource, SoundA plugin for Ableton Live which turns anyone into a terrible player (or a brilliant free jazz player). Download the...
Edible Sound Category : Music, Performance, SoundIn early 2016 I was asked by Matthew Herbert to help him with his Edible Sound project at Science Gallery...
Painting w/ Music Category : Electronics, Games, Music, SoundIn 2017 I worked extensively with South Africa based game designer and programmer Cukia “Sugar” Kimani on Painting w/ Music,...
Radio Poulard Category : Electronics, Music, Resource, SoundRadio Poulard is a MIDI-controlled FM radio instrument. You can play it with a keyboard (or any other midi instrument)...
Killcode Category : Games, SoundThe short version: here’s a prototype audio game that Simon Flesser and I made a while back. Download it and...
Currents Category : Installation, Performance, SoundCurrents is an installation and performance project built around hundreds of discarded computer fans. It was awarded a British Composer...
The Sound of Whisky Category : Music, Sound, VideoIn March 2014 I was very pleased to be invited to the Jura Distillery, on the beautiful Isle of Jura...
Squigglebox Category : Electronics, Music, SoundSometimes the simplest things are the most fun. The Squigglebox is one of the silliest and simplest things I’ve ever...
Custom Contact Mic Preamps Category : Electronics, SoundPiezo contact mics are a cheap and easy way to record some crazy sounds. However, if you just solder a...
Living in the Recent Past Category : SoundIn 2013, as a project for The New Radiophonic Workshop, I was able to visit the Hamilton Mausoleum in South...
Cigar Box MIDI Controller Category : Music, SoundAs the title suggests, this is a MIDI controller built into a cigar box. It has gone through several iterations,...
Wave Trip Category : Games, SoundWave Trip is a Lucky Frame project. One of a series of music games we developed for iPhone and iPad,...
Mujik Category : Games, Music, SoundMujik is an fun music remixing toy/system for iPhone, released in 2009 on the iTunes Store. It was developed through...
