Andrew R. Brown is an active computer musician, computational artist, designer of creative tools, researcher, educator and supervisor of research students. He works as Professor of Digital Arts at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. His research activities focus on modelling creative intelligence, the aesthetics of computational processes, and the design of generative and interactive audiovisual experiences.
createAlbum(“Piano II”);
createAlbum(“Piano II”); is the third album from Music Non Stop, of whom I’m a member, and the result of a year’s development with our generative Music Engine, applied to some of the world’s best digital …
Lo-Fi Sampler
This project is cool little looper/sampler project based around the ISD1820 “voice recorder” IC. It’s dirty and clicky, but surprisingly endearing to play with. It is battery powered, built on a breadboard, and enclosed in …
Collaborative co-creation with autonomous generative artificial intelligence
Miles Phillip (PhD) This project explores the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as an active agent in a process led creative practice. AI generated compositions and motifs will serve as the basis for bespoke …
Creative Coding in an Age of Generative AI
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming ubiquitous, with AI systems now capable of producing creative works in fields ranging from visual art and moving image to product design and music. While machine learning techniques …
Sounds of 1679
“Sounds of 1679” is a generative media work that reinterprets the iconic Arecibo message, first broadcast into space in 1974 as a binary code, transforming it into a captivating, audiovisual experience. This project transforms the static …
Endless Moments
“Endless Moments” is a real-time generative audiovisual work that features a polyphonic generative audio system playing consonant synthesized sounds with a gentle rhythmic energy. The visual materials include algorithmically generated textures and shapes, subtly synchronised …
CreateAlbum(“Piano”);
Combining two of my passions, piano and algorithmic music, has resulted in the release of the second studio album by generative music group, Music Non Stop (MNS) titled CreateAlbum(“Piano”);. The album was produced during development …
Contemplation
Music is often associated with emotions, from excitement to sadness. The work ‘Contemplation’ is no exception and explores thoughtfulness with associated feelings from calmness to anxiety. The work features a mixture of synthesised sounds and …
Crafting sonic expression: Absurdist costume-based instruments for novel participant experience
Tara Pattenden – PhD This project will combine wearables with participatory practices to discover how costume-based, audience-worn instruments – with visually impactful and intuitive electronic interfaces – can enhance engagement and expression for co-authored audience …
On Board Drone Machine
The Drone Machine is a 5-voice DIY synthesizer built on the OnBoard sProject PCB. Powered by an ESP32-S3 microcontroller with audio out via a stereo I2S DAC board, the Drone Machine takes advantage of the …
Form from Field: Investigating the relationship between metaphor and image through complex pseudohallucination
Victoria Hamilton (PhD) This research investigates and visualise the experiences of those with Charles Bonnet Syndrome visions (CBS) pseudohallucinations resulting from some loss of sight. Images experienced range from simple colours and geometric shapes up …
T.H.E.M.
T.H.E.M. (The Handmade Electric Machines) are human-powered electronic sound sculptures exploring the generation of electronic sound through the transference of energy from human kinetic action. Three T.H.E.M. each comprise two different sound and light-making mechanisms …
COUNTERSOUL
COUNTERSOUL is a digital media artwork created by the group Music Non Stop. (Andrew R. Brown, DEFSTALKR, and Nichaols Coleman). It makes history as the first generative musical composition to be inscribed onto the Bitcoin …
Diddley Code
This was my submission to the Genuary 2023 prompt ‘generative music’. Inspired by awesome performances on the single-string diddley bow, this work generates its sound and performance in the web browser. Using the Web Audio …
Lilium
Lilium is a post-digital cine-symphonic mural that depicts a supernatural world inhabited by playful and energetic hybrid species. Lilium explores overlooked cycles of life and death are expressed through disparate temporalities – generative sound and …
Beneath Maiwar
Beneath Maiwar is an immersive audio experience based on underwater sounds of the Brisbane river. The quadraphonic algorithmically generated audio installation provides a brief glimpse into the hidden world under the river’s surface. As a …
Ambisonic Sound for 360 Video
In the Spatial Video and Sound course, which is part of the Bachelor of Design at Queensland College of Arts and Design, Griffith University, students create 360 videos and add spatial sound to them using …
On Board Quadra
The Quadra is a DIY beat box based on a custom-designed PCB and powered by an ESP32 microprocessor running software using my M16 audio synthesis library. The PCB includes space underneath for an I2S audio …
Live Coding Toolkit for Pure data
The Live Coding Toolkit (LCT) is a suite of Pure Data abstractions (predefined functions) for musical live coding. I have been doing musical live coding performances since 2005 and until now these have been in …
On Board Call
The On Board Call is a hand-held gesture-controlled device that performs synthesised imitations of wildlife calls. These include the sounds of birds, frogs, fish, and the like. Wildlife calls are diverse and often complex, the …