Andrew R Brown

Creativity - Technology - Learning
 
Andrew R Brown

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 …

Sound Reflections

Sound Reflections: Your Music Learning Diary, is a student reflective journal and diary with attitude. It encourages considertion of all music activity in the classroom, instrumental studio, and ensemble, by providing a powerful tool for …

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 …

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 …

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 …