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University of Sussex

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:::: Selected Publications ::::


:::: Books ::::

Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions
[Bloomsbury Academic. Buy book here with 35% discount code: "GLR MP6"]

Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperCollider
[A SuperCollider tutorial, available at Leanpub]

Live Coding: A User's Manual
[ with Alan Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox and Alex McLean. Open Access here. Info at MIT Press]



:::: Articles and Papers ::::

Autocoder: a Variational Autoencoder for Spectral Synthesis
[at the International Computer Music Conference 2022. Download the paper here: PDF]

The Proto-Langspil: Launching an Icelandic NIME Research Lab with the Help of a Marginalised Instrument
[at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference. Download the paper here: PDF]

Reflexions upon Feedback
[at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference. Download the paper here: PDF]

Designing the Threnoscope, or, How I Wrote One of My Pieces
[in Sound Work (Orpheus Institute publication). Download the chapter here: PDF]

Introduction to the special issue on socio-cultural role of technology in digital musical instruments
[Journal of New Music Research. Download open access version here: PDF]

The Migration of Musical Instruments: On the Socio-technological Conditions of Musical Evolution
[Journal of New Music Research. Download open access article here: PDF]

Curating experience: Composition as cultural technology - a conversation
[An interview I conducted with composer Claudia Molitor for the Journal of New Music Research. Download preprint here: PDF]

Instrumental Investigations at the Emute Lab
[New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference. Download paper: PDF]

Digitizing the Txalaparta: Computer-Based Study of a Traditional Practice
[Computer Music Journal. Download paper: PDF]

Digital Musical Instruments as Probes: How computation changes the mode-of-being of musical instruments
[Organised Sound. Download paper: PDF]

Designing for a Pluralist and User-Friendly Live Code Language Ecosystem with Sema
[International Conference on Live Coding. Download paper: PDF]

An AudioWorklet-based signal engine for a live coding language ecosystem
[Web Audio Conference. Download paper: PDF]

Composing spatial soundscapes using acoustic metasurfaces
[Audio Mostly. Download paper: PDF]

Ergodynamics and a Semiotics of Instrumental Composition
[Tempo Journal. Read preprint here]

Live Coding Machine Learning and Listening: A Survey on the Design of Languages and Environments for Live Coding
[ICLC Madrid. Download paper: PDF]

Sound and Music in Networked Media
[The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies]

Echoes of other worlds: sound in virtual reality [REVIEW]
[International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media. Read review here]

Ergomimesis: Towards a Language Describing Instrumental Transductions
[International Conference on Live Interfaces. Download paper: PDF]

The Ensemble as Expanded Interface: Sympoetic Performance in the Brain Dead Ensemble
[ International Conference on Live Interfaces With Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris, Alice Eldridge and Chris Kiefer. Download paper: PDF]

Performing with Patterns of Time
[Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Download chapter:PDF]

Musical Organics: A Heterarchical Approach to Digital Organology
[Journal of New Music Research. Download paper: PDF]

Contextualizing Musical Organics: An Ad-hoc Organological Classification Approach
[NIME 2017 conference. Download paper: PDF]

Interfacing Sound: Visual Representation of Sound in Musical Software Instruments
[Musical Instruments in the 21st Century. Download chapter:PDF]

The Acoustic, the Digital and the Body: A Survey on Musical Instruments
[A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression]

Writing With Shaky Hands
[International Journal of Performance and Digital Media. Download paper: PDF]

Notating the Non-Notateable: Digital Notation of Txalaparta Practice
[Tenor 2016 Conference. Download paper: PDF]

Code Scores in Live Coding Practice
[Tenor 2015 Conference. Download paper: PDF]

Scoring with Code: Composing with Algorithmic Notation
[Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music and Technology. Download here: PDF]

Improvising with the Threnoscope
[New Interfaces For Musical Expression. Download here: PDF]

Herding Cats: Observing Live Coding in the Wild
[Computer Music Journal Special issue on Live Coding, 2014. Download here: PDF]

From a Music Industry to Sound Industries
[Mono #2 - 2013 (Cochlear Poetics: Writings on Music and Sound Arts). Download chapter: PDF]

On creativity and calculation: attempts at and rejections of formal definitions of creativity
[Computational Culture Journal (Review of the book: Computers and Creativity). View html article]

The Threnoscope: A Musical Work for Live Coding Performance
[Live 2013 (International Conference on Software Engineering). Download here: PDF]

The Musical Score: The System and the Interpreter
[ISEA 2011 (International Symposium for Electronic Arts). Download here: PDF]

Algorithms as Scores: Coding Live Music
[Leonardo Music Journal 2011 - download at the MIT Press Website or here

Confessions of a Live Coder
[International Computer Music Conference 2011 - Download here: PDF]

When instruments become architecture: On liquifying frozen music
[The Sound of Shadows: Peter Vogel Exhibition 2011 - Download here: PDF ]

ixi lang: a SuperCollider Parasite for Live Coding
[International Computer Music Conference 2011 - Download here PDF ]

Interface Investigations
[In the SuperCollider Book (March 2011)]

Designing Constraints: Composing and Performing with Digital Musical Systems
[Computer Music Journal 2010 - download PDF ]

Sobre como emborrachar un ordenador
[Sonic Ideas Vol 2 (2). 2010 - download PDF]

ixi lang: a Constraint System for Live Coding
[ISEA 2010 (International Symposium For Electronic Arts) - download PDF]

An Epistemic Dimension Space for Musical Devices
[NIME 2010 - download PDF]

Of Epistemic Tools: Musical Instruments as Cognitive Extensions
[Organised Sound 2009 - download PDF]

Epistemic Tools: The Phenomenology of Digital Musical Instruments
[PhD Thesis 2009 - download PDF]

The Phenomenology of Musical Instruments: A Survey
[eContact 10.4 2008 - article here]

Working with Sound
[The Digital Artists Handbook 2007 - article here]

Expression and Time: The question of strata and time management in creative practices using technology
[FLOSS+ART Book - download PDF ]

Generative Schizotopia: SameSameButDifferent v02 - Iceland
[Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, 2007 - download PDF ]

The ixiQuarks: Merging Code and GUI in One Creative Space
[ICMC 2007 - download PDF]

The Acoustic, the Digital and the Body: A Survey on Musical Instruments
[NIME 2007 - download PDF]

SameSameButDifferent v.02 - Iceland
[YLEM Journal, 2007 - download PDF ]

Affordances and Constraints in Screen-Based Musical Instruments
[NordiCHI 2006 - download PDF]

Screen-Based Musical Instruments as Semiotic Machines
[NIME 2006 - download PDF]

Intelligent Tools in Music
[in Artificial - article here]

ixi software: Open Controllers for Open Source Audio Software
[ICMC 2005 - download PDF]

ixi software: The Interface as Instrument
[NIME 2005 - download PDF]

Processor Art: Currents in the Process Oriented Works of Generative and Software Art
[Cand Mag. Thesis 2002 - download hi-res PDF or lo-res PDF]

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