Andrew R Brown

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Andrew R Brown

About

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.

Music on SoundCloud

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.

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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Tile Town

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

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 …

Connections

Connections is a generative audiovisual work developed in the Impromptu environment and exhibited as part of the [d]Generate exhibition of digital generative art at the Gympie Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia, from June – August 2013. …

Affecting Interference

This work by Daniel Mafe and Andrew Brown in 2012 is a combination of painting and digital sound into a single, large scale, immersive exhibition/installation. The work as a whole acts as an interstitial point …

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 …