Saturday, 08. May 2010
More Max, More Grid 

A bit of an outbreak of writing for Sound On Sound over the last couple of months: a two-parter on Max for Live in the Ableton Live Techniques series (
one
two), and a
review of the
Livid Instruments Ohm64 controller.
For those (myself included) who are on the fence regarding the Ohm64, the fact that it can now be ordered in
customised colours might be persuasive.

Wednesday, 05. May 2010
Xenakis at Spitalfields 

We are starting work on the software, tracking system and audio engine for an interactive installation piece - the
Xenakis Pavilion - for the
Spitalfields Festival. This photograph shows the area where the installation will materialise, TARDIS-like, in early June.

Trespassing at Somerset House 

We have been commissioned to compose a sound score for
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company for a new work entitled
Trespass at
Somerset House. More details
here.

Sunday, 21. February 2010
Ras goffa, Spring Loaded, London 

Fresh from a performance at British Dance Edition 2010,
ras goffa Bobby Sands is showing in the
Spring Loaded festival at
The Place on April 10th.
(Photo:
Keith Morris.) 
Saturday, 20. February 2010
Max for Live for Print 

Late news: our
Max for Live review was published in the February issue of
Sound On Sound. It may still be on news stands, and is available for download
here.

Friday, 15. January 2010
By the Numbers 

Nearly five years after
I pondered using the
Conet Numbers Stations recordings for a bit of sound art,
madebyrobot a.k.a. Jon Sykes has curated a
rather nice compilation of concept tracks on the theme, released by
PublicSpaces Lab. Cassiel is featured with
Ciocirlia (track 5).
(Cover Art by Rita Monteiro @ PublicSpaces Lab.) 
Thursday, 07. January 2010
Vitruvian Fieldwork 

Work continues in
Field on the Vitruvian-inspired software
Choreographic Language Agent for
Wayne McGregor's
Entity piece, the latest incarnation of which will be performed in November.
Since most of our projects involve sound art, we usually obsess over CPU performance and RAM, but Field/CLA is graphics-heavy with lots of OpenGL action, so the GPU rules. This 2006 MacBook Pro is way underpowered, so we're awaiting delivery of a 2009 model, slightly faster CPU-wise but (hopefully) a revelation in terms of graphics performance.

Monday, 04. January 2010
Ras goffa, British Dance Edition 
ras goffa Bobby Sands is being performed as part of British Dance Edition 2010: details
here.

Sunday, 25. October 2009
Memorial Lasers 

We have some
shots on Flickr of the laser rig we designed and programmed for
ras goffa Bobby Sands (the Bobby Sands memorial race) by
Eddie Ladd.
Further performances this week at
Chapter, Cardiff.

Ableton to Zawinski 

In anticipation of the release of
Max for Live, I felt a sudden desire to program Ableton Live to be able to read mail. With a bit of help from MXJ and
Jython, Live can attach to a POP3 server and load email header information into the names of sound clips. Et voila, via
Vimeo and our fledgeling
Posterous blog for Max for Live tips and tricks:
http://maxforlive.loadbang.net/ableton-live-now-obeys-zawinskis-law-thanks-t.