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Articles/Essays, EASy MSc, Music
Brian Eno and Generative Art
Tonight, I’m heading to Brighton Dome to see a performance of Brian Eno’s seminal album Apollo as part of Brighton Festival, which Eno is curating this year.
Two years ago, I wrote an essay about Eno (and the wider theme of generative art) as a piece of coursework for a course called “Generative Creativity” (part of the EASy MSc at the University of Sussex). I thought today might be a good opportunity to put it online for posterity. Below is Part One of the essay, which is essentially a short biography of Eno, concentrating on his contribution to generative art and music.
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Design & Programming, Electronics + Robotics, Music, Projects, Software
Cahors
A few months ago, I spent some time writing a MIDI sequencer for the Arduino. I finished the sequencer, wrote a couple of songs with it, and then got sucked into MSc thesis mode and had to abandon it.
Well, I’ve finally got round to publishing it as an open source project on Google Code, [...] -
Music
Dark Matter Guitars
My brother has recently been learning how to make guitars, and will be starting to produce them under the name Dark Matter Guitars.
Here’s a picture of his first prototypes:The one on the left is an OOO-shape in standard tuning, the one on the right is a baritone model. There’s a soundclip of me playing [...]
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Music
Mashed Beatles
I stumbled across an album of Beatles songs that have been mixed and blended with lots of other songs, from artists like Madonna, Portishead, Coldplay, Genesis, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Cure, Goldfrapp and Glen Miller. It’s very well done, and strangely entertaining.
You can download them all separately from here or you can find [...]
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