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 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 […]
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.
A few posts ago, I wrote about sketching out some ideas for an ontology to work through programming languages and their interaction with sound. I hacked up some ideas from the diagrams to test some initial ideas and queries so that I can develop the ontology and test the ideas within it. From this, I […]
A while ago, I was asked to contribute to a forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Sound Studies. The contracts have been signed so the entry on Computer Science and Sound is being written. One of the things that I have been playing around with is creating a Linked Data graph of programming languages, what facets exists, and […]
I have recently started looking at retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for some project ideas and came across the concept of GraphRAG. My understanding is that it uses knowledge graphs rather than vector stores to identify additional information to create context for onward processing and Large Language Model use. It seems interesting and I am curious to […]
I heard about Luis Felipe R. Murillo’s Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures (Stanford University Press, 2025) on a Digital Labour list. I wasn’t able to attend the advertised talk but did pick up the book and read on the flight to Lisbon for a conference. I have become slightly wary of Hackerspace books either […]
I had the fortune of getting a paper accepted for this year’s Digital Humanities conference, which will be in Lisbon. I will be talking about computational audible infrastructures as extension of Kyle Devine and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier’s audible infrastructures. I will follow this up by talking at the MoCREN event that is straight afterwards. I will […]
