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 […]
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 […]
I have recently come back to text and audio generation using a Hugging Face account with a Gradio interface. I’m not sold on Gradio, but right now it seems sane. My first use is with Stability Audio where I’ve been usng both the toolkit and the diffusion options. Last time that I used the toolkit […]
I have just come across the sapf (Sound as Pure Form) language (github source) from the creator of SuperCollider. I am currently looking through some of documentation and videos before diving in and exploring it properly. However, the examples are intriguing enough to want to investigate further and see where it might all go. More […]
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 was recently playing around with an Arduino and Baltic Lab’s Baudot Code for a quick experiment. I do want to continue doing some work on this to understand some of the issues in Strachey’s code for the Manchester Machine as in David Link’s article on God Save the Queen in Computer Resurrection #76. I […]
Started teaching this week and the world still moves. Having had conversations with the other staff (that will be ongoing), I sketched out some ways of donating data from the Unheard City project and using phones around it. It is a challenge. No doubt the work will change and move, but it raises some interesting […]
