Beats and Pieces came about when I decided to pull together all the bits and pieces I was doing to make a living through music.

Electronic music composition, band website design, artistic development, event promotion & electronic music based workshops… is there anything this guy can’t do? Keep up the great work.

If you want to be like rich get in touch, we’re always looking for like minded people.

Directed by Scott Hewitt, HELO and friends, Adam Jansch, Sam Freeman and Tom Mudd (biotic audio artist), will be performing a variety of works exploring laptop ensemble playing, bounded improvisation and interpreted scores.

Ed Jenks & Matthew Barnard will also be performing on the evening.

8pm @ Café Ollo, The Media Centre, Northumberland Street, Huddersfield.
Thursday 6th November, Thursday 13th November and Thursday 20th November.

Don’t forget to check out other artists playing in Huddersfield during the HCMF friday 21st – sunday 30th November 2008. the ASCOLTA / ZAPPA gig at bate’s mill looks especially good.

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update: A recording of Tom Mudd’s minimal bass performance from that evening can be found here.

a kind of 3d didital flower that responds to 7 open sound control variables.

i’ve omitted the source as it’s kind of embarrasing being a bodged effort way back in 2003 before the oscp5 implementation was released. really it was just the protocol wrapped around an example sketch.

even so, i could still see the potential of processing as a vis/ui platform back then.

new pd test patch to go with though.

The jquery js is now running the rounded corners, the sidebar code works without js enabled and we’ve sacked off the fold out comments for a more traditional inline design.

The archives and author templates are borked, I know. I’ll tweak those over the next few days.

Post up any feedback or weird browser bugs in the comments.

I managed to secure slot 30 in the queue for the remaining 40 units at 18:00:33 and had that auction winning feeling when I received the confirmation of my slot and then later payment. I really like the fact that we’ll be some of the lucky few to have secured a device.

I envy the developers for being in the great position of the orders now flowing in, having a great community, while still not outsourcing manufacture. We’re going to be coding/patching up some experiments as soon as the device arrives in a month or so. You never know we might even release some of them.

See vimeo for some fun videos.

isn’t it just a bunch of buttons with lights? yes, isn’t it wonderful? by having separate light and button systems, the device can be reconfigured infinitely. new applications and uses are continually being invented.

Hear where it all began here.

The hours were mental and the conditions were not always great as you’d expect on a night shoot… my body clock is still adjusting to diurnal life!

However, I met many industrious people and found the new experience of working with Kate McSweeny and Kathy Doyle (co-writers and directors of upcoming short film ‘Clean’) very rewarding.

My task on the project is really just beginning as we enter the post-production stage.

Here’s me looking forward nervously to hearing the rushes after import.

Finally publishing some much needed content… with free downloads!

We’ve gone through many designs from static html to fullscreen flash.

Last week I implemented wordpress and a modified version of the Slider 1.0 theme by Karmadude.

There’s still a few minor changes to make to the design and lots of content to add, however, most of our artists are pretty busy working on current projects, so we’ll get on it asap.