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 …
Characteristics of Music Algorithms
The concepts and terms currently applied to discussions of algorithmic music are varied and, especially for new comers, often confusing. For example, consider the term “generative music”, which is used with different meanings by various …
Digital Instrument Building
The methods of digital instrument building and the ways these enable creative expression are interests of mine. In 2003 with assistance of a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and the efforts of …
Phasing exhibition
The Phasing exhibition was held in the QUT Art Musem, Brisbane, Australia. It was the first public exhibition of the collaboration of Daniel Mafe and Andrew R. Brown in the development of their ActivePixels software. …
NIAM
This generative music application allows the user to compose music made up of cyclic patterns. Musical attributes can be treated separately and cycled in or out of phase. A number of parts can be overlaid …
jMusic
jMusic is a project designed to provide composers and software developers with a library of compositional and audio processing tools. It provides a solid framework for computer-assisted composition in Java™, and is also used for …