I am presenting a paper at King’s College London next month (June 2026) and have posted the repository as Audio CCS for now. I am hoping that this will become a touch larger. For now it is just the initial data and templates.
Software tasks for this week have focused on a new project tracing AI in mobile applications. This is part of a fellowship project to develop a wider toolkit for app studies to run on High Performance Computers. While I have an existing toolkit, it is designed for laptops or High Throughput processes. The current project […]
I was reading Mary Beard’s Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old (Profile Books, London, 2026) through curiosity about why learn the classics and as an exercise in reading. I did Latin at school many years ago and have forgotten a fair amount. However, she discusses the use of diacritics in the production of Greek […]
I recently read a couple of books that have links to sound and audio in different domains. Keza Macdonald’s Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun (Guardian Faber, London, 2026). It is a journalistic run over the history of secretive company through their games and systems. My previous 1980s experience of […]
I recently read Marion Coutts’s What Did the Deep Sea Say? (Fern Press, 2026), after seeing a piece in the Observer a little while ago. The book is a meditation on grief that uses the natural world as a mirror and highly worth reading for that alone. However, I am more interested in the pages […]
Came across this via other social media, but this video of a synth powered by plane traffic caught my ears. https://youtu.be/hYLcwwlLMU8?si=iT20b1BZASfIGnWQ
I am attending the Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) workshop on Tuesday to present a poster, Digging into Atlas: Engaging with Archived Code and Sound. This is initial work on the Eric Sunderland archive at Manchester, which has become a larger project than intended. I will be running an initial tool to begin mapping the […]
The Resonant Computing Manifesto has been launched and has five principles: Private, Dedicated, Plural, Adaptable, and Prosocial The scale of software is a core concern , where the rough edges of a being a human can be sanded off with a tendency to the average. The manifesto suggests that AI might help in responding to […]
I came across an Arduino being used to control sound using a Passive Infra Red Sensor and a Douk Audio to play the instrument that was picked up from an old barn. More information on Daric Gill‘s blog about building it and the challenges.
As I may have mentioned, I have been working to extract a sound from the old printouts. I spent some time using OpenCV to convert some low quality images into grey scale so that I could use Tesseract on them. It did need hand correction – but I think I can see some ways of […]
