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ItemA Java-based Remote Live Coding System for Controlling Multiple Raspberry PI Units(International Computer Music Association, 2013)Cheap embedded devices create new opportunities for networked, distributed, generative or remote-controlled music. In this paper we present a simple audio programming environment designed to run realtime, remote live-coded audio on a low-cost completely wireless hardware setup consisting of a Raspberry PI, a WiFi dongle, a speaker and a battery pack. Audio is processed in realtime using the Beads library for realtime audio in Java, running on Oracle’s distribution of Java for embedded devices. Code is remotely injected in realtime by sending Java class files over a socket connection to a dynamic class loader, which instantiates and runs the classes. We describe the system and its capabilities, and give an example of a performance that utilises this system. This paper is accompanied by a musical performance at ICMC 2013.
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ItemUsing Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction to Promote Social Encounters Around Large Media Façades(Association for Computing Machinery, 2014-06-21)In this paper we describe the design of a large-scale interactive light and music intervention on a corporate high rise building and its surrounding urban area. Designing for interaction with media façades has traditionally posed challenges regarding proxemics, scale of the augmented architecture and placement of interactive spaces. With the increasing availability and affordability of interactive technologies, factors such as playability and tangibility are assumed not only to be present but also to enable richer collective experiences. We propose a new approach for interaction with large media façades employing embodied audio-visual interaction at the floor level. That way, the floor level serves as proxy for interacting with the media façade whilst facilitating social encounters. We discuss aspects considered during different phases of the project development and derive principles for connecting zones of proxemics, promoting encounters by distributing the performance, designing for urban activation and isolating implementation concerns.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableExploring Sonic Contexts of the Roland TB-303 Bassline Synthesizer(Cambridge University Press, 2016)This presentation explores how sonic meaning is conveyed through the iconic TB-303 Bassline Synthesizer and its various clones through an all hardware live electronic dance music (EDM) performance. It will present real time sonic examples born from the unique TB-303 sound and demonstrate its significant contribution to the sonic development of EDM since Acid House.
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ItemVideoconferencing for teaching and learning using highly interactive pedagogy(School of Engineering, Deakin University, 2015-12-06)
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ItemConcertos for Intermediate-level Piano Students(Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference, 2015)Pre-College level piano students—unlike their orchestral instrumentalist peers—can too often lead an almost isolated musical existence, both in the practice room and when performing. While the musical and social benefits of playing duets, either student/student or student/teacher are well known and documented, there also exists a vast array of exciting and expressive concerto repertoire for the Intermediate Level piano student, in all manner of styles, beyond the popular entry-level concerto that is Haydn’s Concerto in D major. This lecture-recital proposes to explore the Concerto repertoire suitable for pre-Diploma level students as well as related Duo Piano repertoire that will be of interest to the studio music teacher with students in the Grade 4-8 range. Opportunities to present such concerto repertoire beyond the music studio, in either a two piano format, with string quartet, or with orchestra will also be discussed.
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ItemMaking 'Soundmarks': Places and ecologies in contemporary sound art(International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 2015)
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ItemThe impact of idiopathic synaesthesia on musical abilities(Humanities Research Institute, 2015)
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ItemContinuous Response To Music Using Discrete Emotion Faces(Springer Verlag, 2012)
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ItemCushioning the blow of culture shock: Using individual strengths to alleviate the burdens of cultural adjustment.(NAFSA: Association of International Educators, 2006)