Andrew R Brown

Immersive Audio-visual Objects

January 31, 2020 January 16, 2021

Mauricio Iregui (PhD) This project, Immersive Audio-visual Objects: New Opportunities at the Intersection of Electronic Music and Interactive Visual Media, queries how we experience sound and moving image, with a particular emphasis on immersivity. The …

About

September 17, 2019 September 2, 2021

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.

A multi-disciplinary design language and its use with artificial intelligence for innovation

February 4, 2019 September 4, 2020

Nelson Vermeer (PhD) This research explores how a workflow be developed to allow for design co-creation, entity mapping, the discovery of analogous question-solution pairs across disciplines based on ideation synthesis through the generation of invention …

Chorus: Songs of Inanimate Objects

September 15, 2018 June 15, 2021

Chorus is a series of three sonic sculptures which have varying haptic qualities and respond with electronically generated sound. Created by Daniel Della-Bosca, Andrew R Brown, and John Ferguson, the objects combine digital design/fabrication (3D …

Music on SoundCloud

September 10, 2018 September 10, 2020

Over the years I’ve posted various musical creations on my SoundCloud account. It provides an overview of my creative journey and features the many approaches I’ve adopted in my co-creative practice with algorithmic systems.

Creating knowledge through collaboration at the interface of art and science

September 4, 2018 September 4, 2020

David Harris (PhD) There has not yet been a good descriptive accounting of the nature and form of existing art and science collaborations although some informal sketches have been outlined and such an accounting has …

Visualising disillusionment with politics: An exploration of remixed media and commercial design practices

September 1, 2018 September 4, 2020

Rae Cooper (DVA) This research aims to further establish the position of visual communication design as an agent of meta-systemic political engagement. It responds to the question: “How can visual communication design visualise disillusionment with …

GenDynish – Xenakis on the Arduino

March 17, 2018 March 1, 2022

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

September 23, 2017 October 6, 2022

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

March 13, 2017 January 13, 2021

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 …

The Unseen Water: The Transmigration of Scientific Photography into the Domain of Art through Experimentation with the Scanning Electron Microscope

September 4, 2016 September 4, 2020

Anastasia Tyurina (PhD) This research involves aesthetic approaches to scientific microphotography. Scientific photography is commonly perceived as a way of recording scientific data through techniques such as photomicrography, high-speed photography, time-lapse photography, x-ray photography, aerial …

The Aesthetic Implications of Complexity Theory for Object Creation and Haptic Response

September 4, 2016 September 4, 2020

Daniel Della-Bosca (PhD) This research explores the ideas of complexity as borrowed from the sciences and in turn adapted to help understand some aspects of the creation and perception of art and design. This exploration …

Tile Town

October 15, 2015 October 15, 2020

Tile Town is a web-based audio-visual work combining multi-agent generative systems and audio field recordings. It explores computational processes as a design prompt and examples of unfolding intelligence. The project builds a contemplative commentary on …

Ripples

September 4, 2015 September 11, 2020

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 …

Modular Synthesis and the Unconscious: An Exploration of the Role of Technology and Self-Reflection in Sound Creation and Compositional Process

June 13, 2014 June 13, 2023

In this research, David Chechelashvili situates electronic music-making with a modular synthesiser within a broader context of technologically mediated music composition and the various traditions and philosophical underpinnings derived from psychoanalytic writings of Freudian origin …