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 …
The Many Faces of Creativity in the Digital Arts
Digital arts practices have implications for education effecting the form and modality of work by staff and students and posing challenges for contemporary curriculum in the creative arts. This post will introduce three issues that …
What is Musicianship and how do you teach it?
Andrew R. Brown One of the great things about music is that it is multifaceted. It can be many things to many people, and you can spend a lifetime studying it but still not be …
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 …
Small-r and Big-R Research
The term ‘research’ is used in many ways, for example “I’m doing research about which car to purchase.” Such research is very helpful. The information found is likely new to you, but not to the …
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 …
AV Jam @ Sydney Powerhouse Museum
The AV Jam system is exhibiting at the beta_space facility within the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, Australia. AV Jam is a generative audio-visual system that is controlled by multiple MIDI sliders. It is designed to encourage …
Education as Meaningful Engagement
The theory of meaningful engagement is a philosophy of education that draws together research by Steve Dillon and myself. It represents a significant shift in educational philosophy with its emphasis on education as primarily concerned …
Software Development as Research (SoDaR)
SoDaR is an approach to research that involves software development as an active research method in the humanities. This theory describes how software development can be used as a method for research in the arts …
Modes of Creative Engagement
My research shows that creative activity is most importantly directed by how interested and involved a person is during the creative experience. It has also revealed, on closer examination, particular ways in which this experience …
Slice-Flower: A computational art work
Through the work Slice-Flower Andrew Soresne and Andrew R. Brown (aka: aa-cell) explore the aesthetic potential of computational expression. The work is part of a series that explore the potential of algorithms that occupy 10 …
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 …
Binary Beats
Binary Beats is a probabilistic drum machine I wrote so to produce variable drum beats with some musical sense. Its quite amazing how prominent powers of two (binary) numbers are in music with a simple …
Unscrambler
The Unscrambler is an interactive generative art work that was used displayed in the Ian Potter Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), as an activity within the Scoot location-based game in Melbourne, Australia, from Sept …
ScreenPlay and Journey One
The ScreenPlay and Journey One series of animated computational arts work by Daniel Mafe and Andrew R. Brown were exhibited at The Block, in Brisbane, Australia in 2005. ScreenPlay consists of real-time digital animation/sound screen …
World Exhibition
The works in World are real-time digital generative animated screen works. These works are the latest results of a collaboration of almost 4 years between Daniel Mafe and Andrew Brown. Together Daniel and Andrew have …
Live Coding with aa-cell
With Andrew Sorensen, I’ve been part of the live coding duo aa-cell since 2005. In live coding, musical algorithms are coded and edited during the performance. Typically, the laptop screens are projected so the audience …
Interactive Dynamic Stochastic Synthesizer
The Interactive Dynamic Stochastic Synthesizer (IDSS) is an instrument that uses stochastic synthesis. It extends the original dynamic stochastic synthesis process devised by Iannis Xenakis and provides an effective interface for interaction. The IDSS was …