Lo-Fi Sequencer
The LoFi Sequencer is an algorithmic sequencer and monophonic synthesiser with controls for pitch, timbre, density, and generative algorithm settings housed in a laser-cut box. It is a simple DIY device to be made at …
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Generative Music Chrome Extension
The Music Non Stop Chrome Extension brings a real-time generative music engine to your browser. Powered by the Web Audio API, it creates music locally—no streaming, no downloads, no samples, and no external connections. Each …
Maximum Silence to Noise
Modulation synthesis has been a foundational technique in the development of electronic musical instruments since their inception. Maxiumum Silence to Noise (MSN) is a novel approach to ring modulation synthesis, termed Maximum Silence to Noise …
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 …
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 …
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 …
M16: An Arduino Audio Synthesis Library for ESP8266, ESP32 and Pi Pico
M16 is a 16-bit audio synthesis library designed for use with Arduino-compatible microcontrollers, specifically the ESP8266 and ESP32 families and the Pi Pico. Developed by Andrew R. Brown, M16 enables real-time audio generation and processing using …
Micro Mono Control
The Micro Mono Control (MMC) is a DIY MIDI controller and monophonic synthesizer based on the Arduino Pro Micro running the MIDIUSB and Mozzi audio libraries. Designed by Andrew R. Brown with great assistance from …
Scratch Music Projects
This book introduces readers to concepts in computational thinking and coding alongside parallel concepts in music, creative sound, and interaction. In this practical, project-based book, music students, educators, and coders are assisted to engage with …
jam2jam – Network Jamming software
Jam2jam applications generate music that you can control while it plays. Even better, you can connect via a network with your friends who have jam2jam to jointly control the music. Jam just like a band, …
Pi Shaker
In late 2019, I hosted at Griffith University a visiting researcher, Dr. Vesa Norilo, from the Sibelius Academy in Finland. During his visit, Vesa worked with me on new tools and techniques for electronic instruments. …
Real-Time Systems
In the Real-Time Systems course, which is part of the Creative Music Technology major of the Bachelor of Music at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, students create and perform bespoke software instruments using Pure Data (Pd), …
GenDynish – Xenakis on the Arduino
Furthering my previous interests in Stochastic Synthesis I implemented an emulation of Iannis Xenakis’ Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis on an Arduino microcontroller, the resulting algorithm I titled GenDynish. The Gendynish algorithm is software that runs on …
CIM – Controlling Interactive Music
Controlling Interactive Music (CIM) is an interactive music system for human-computer duets. Designed as a creativity support system it explores the metaphor of human-machine symbiosis, where the phenomenological experience of interacting with CIM has both …
Sculptural Sonic Agents
Sculptural Sonic Agents is a collaboration between Andrew Brown and John Ferguson. The goal is to explore the development of sonic sculptural agents, these ‘agents’ are bespoke instruments that comprise artificial listening and sound generating capabilities. They …
Ripples
A composition for live performer and algorithmic music system. Ripples is a musical duet where the human performance stimulates a cascade of responses from the machine. The work emphasises chordal and arpeggiated material derived, in …
SoundCipher
SoundCipher is a music and sound processing library for Processing version 1, which is mostly deprecated these days. Written in 2010 before the days of WebAudio, SoundCipher provided an easy way to create music in …
Solo Live Coding
My creative practice includes solo live coding performances. Live Coding involves writing software that makes music (or anything else If you prefer) as pat of the performance. It is a practice that is like improvised …
ActivePixels
ActivePixels is an application designed by Andrew R. Brown and Daniel Mafe, and programmed by Brown. It uses generative processes based on cellular automata-like rules relating to colours in a grid formation. Building on a …