I’m a Computer Scientist by training and profession, but in my spare time I like playing music and writing poetry. So, when making digital things, a fair bit of both music and poetry tend to feature. Here’s a quick overview of a few recent projects. Sheep Dreams In this project a cuddly sheep is connected … Continue reading Making Things
Being a big fan of both Sonic Pi, a live-coding music program, MaKey MaKey, a gadget that makes bananas and other unlikely objects musical, I decided to have a go at running together some code that would let me use them together. This solution is based on Pygame Zero, a wrapper program for Pygame written by Daniel Pope. … Continue reading Sonic Pi goes bananas
I’d read about the program Electric Sheep a few months ago and, as a long-time fan of Blade Runner, was really taken with the idea. It’s a distributed, collaborative artwork by Scott Draves where people all over the world run the program on their machine. Each “sheep” is an animation based on the fractal flame … Continue reading Sheep dreams are made of this
I was trying some experiments with cardboard filters on my Holga recently. They didn’t come out quite the way I was hoping (too much diffraction I think) but I quite liked these ones. “Suspicion on White Street” – a rectangular alien lands in the West End. “Impossible Pier” – … Continue reading Bending Light
I’ve always been really attached to the tower of the University of Glasgow’s iconic Gilbert Scott building, despite spending most of my time there in the much less picturesque surroundings of the Boyd Orr. These are double-exposures taken using my favourite app: Hipstamatic, which lets you turn your expensive phone into a £20 plastic camera … Continue reading Two towers
Raise the roof at the live music coding workshop this Friday at #GSCLates https://t.co/PRxNtMrKS1 @alcluith @Sonic_Pi 🤓 pic.twitter.com/RBBPMfVZ5c — GlasgowScienceCentre (@gsc1) May 3, 2017 I recently ran some music live-coding workshops for Glasgow Science Centre at one of their new Science Lates events. These evening sessions are adults-only and include a huge range of entertaining, … Continue reading Eine Kleine Science-Musik
Click here to make a digital blackout poem (works on desktop/laptop only for the moment and not on Firefox browser. New version coming soon!). Blackout poetry: not something you write to occupy yourself when there’s a powercut, but poems created from other texts by obliterating most of the original words. I’d never actually tried this … Continue reading Poems in the Gaps – a Blackout Poetry Tool
This field of lightbulbs had sprung up outside the library earlier this week – unfortunately they weren’t lit when I was going past, and they’d vanished by the next day (it seemed to have something to do with a JP Morgan recruitment drive). Continue reading Lightbulb Moments
Back at Stereo this weekend for the latest gig in a Threads-packed month. First on was Adam Stafford, who had one of those cunning looping devices – in the manner of KT Tunstall – but produced much less standard sounding music with it. Many of the pieces had complex layers of vocal harmony, not often … Continue reading Adam Stafford, 17th c., and Martin John Henry
Here’s my shot from yesterday’s levitation workshop in Edinburgh with Miss Aniela (also the model in this photo) which was excellent. I think my Photoshopping and levitation skills still need some work, but I certainly learnt numerous incantations and got lots of new ideas 😉 Continue reading Moonlight Shadow
Claire Quigley 