How does business and entrepreneurial education within the HE sector align with the needs of candidates? How does an individualistic attainment focused sector encourage authentic collaboration in a dynamic field......
Does the act of creating performance processing spaces constitute composition? My personal compositional practice continues to sees an ongoing decline in interest in through composed works. Perhaps as a consequence......
In this paper we report on the early outcomes of the creation of an installation instrument, its aims and early results from its initial deployments. Our instrument explores non traditional......
The dial as an interface is prevalent in many audio production systems, both hardware and software based. Dedicated purpose hardware dials, such as on a synthesiser, typically offer a variety......
One of the most common hardware interfaces, the simplest to make in many software environments and littered throughout the history of electronic music is the lowly dial. Even in the......
Post the advent of the MP3 format, legal online music stores, YouTube and other legal streaming services the prioritisation and sale of the album has become signicantly reduced. This has......
Following the advent of the MP3 format, legal online music stores, Youtube and other legal streaming services, the prioritisation and sale of the album has become significantly reduced. This has......
In examining the activities of the Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra I suggest the transferable skills and principles that laptop performance offers to cross discipline practitioners, especially within a teaching context......
While livecoding continues to grow in practice and popularity the concerns of documenting actual performance become more critical. While the screen-cast method, popularised by TOPLAP, serves as a performance record......
In this paper the authors will explore the notational approaches used while directing the Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra (HELO), HELOpg and other non meta-instrument based laptop ensembles. We will discuss......
The laptop group ‘HELOpg’ operates as a non-unified ensemble, exploring individually designed interfaces without common hardware or software architecture. The diversity and independence of performers within the group is valued......
In this paper we highlight security issues created through the use of network connectivity in performance. We argue that an awareness of these issues can lead to more secure and......
A bettakultcha presentation about Jamming with Laptops and Friends given at the 2010 Vitae Public Engagement Competition....
Based on an ongoing collaboration we discuss the multi faceted collaboration between composer, technologist and performer....
In this paper we seek to outline the methodology and philosophy of the Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra (HELO). Placing the ensemble in context of similar work, we discuss the Do-It-Yourself......
An early report into the initial happenings of the Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra....
Detailing the current use of network technologies with my current performance practice I highlight the potential for network technologies to empower composers and performers through new possibilities....
This paper offers a standard message format for easy intercommunication over a network, between laptop performers within a drop-in improvisation session. It is based on OSC-like reserved namespaces, namely /test,......
A presentation regarding the development of the SimpleOSC namespace system....