I spent the day at Ben’s house, recording (guitars mostly) for an album that we (and others) are (sporadically) working on. Ryan joined us in the evening, and he played some guitar parts that Ben had written. Ryan came up with a new guitar part for a tune that I’d written a few months ago.…
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Words
CreativePact ↓ CreativePact is the hub of a group of artists, musicians and technologists who enter a pact to create and document some new creative output regularly over the course of a month. Pacts may begin between August-October and run for 30 days. In years gone by the word regularly would have been daily, but…
Nakedness
Day one for this CreativePact project (see the intro posted yesterday, and see creativepact.co.uk for other projects going on this month), and to begin this month of collecting videos of improvisation I started with some simple searches. The term ‘improv’ returns many cases of words like ‘improvement’ in the video titles, descriptions and tags; nevertheless,…
CreativePact 2014: Inclusive Improv Vimeo Group
CreativePact 4 Aug – 4 Sep, 2014 In short: share a video each day via vimeo.com/groups/inclusiveimprov (either something found or something new), and blog about it. About: After an exchange of messages, few months ago, with someone on vimeo about the inclusive improv group on that site, a new description was added to the group:…
Off-grid AV at NGG
This time last week I was getting ready to go to Derbyshire for the Northern Green Gathering (NGG). Whilst there I helped to install, wire, and operate a solar-powered cinema (photovoltaic panels → charge controller → 24v DC → inverter → 240v AC → laptop, projector, stereo amp…).
Visually Representing CeReNeM
Several people, including Monty Adkins, who was the co-supervisor of my PhD, shared a link to an article on RedBullMusicAcademy.com which describes many of the inspiring goings on at CeReNeM – the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield. The thing that first caught my eye about this was the way…
Raspberry Pi
Towards doing more interesting things the Raspberry Pi… see notes on my pi specific blog: sdf-rpi.blogspot.co.uk
thisis drawing circles
A data matrix from sdfsys exported as a png: The data was drawn using the macro syntax of thisis; six slightly different macro sequences were recorded for putting points relative to points that have been put, and another macro is defined for drawing six circles at a time with those points. The delay prefix to…
Getting there
With such a backlog of things that one could blog about, one may feel overwhelmed to the point of paralysis, and thus end up not posting anything. Having updated aspects of my internet self in the past 24 hours, I thought it time to post something, so that’s what this is. Because it’s blog post…
Hello world!
Welcome to yet another WordPress site. This one is for me (sdf/Sam/Samuel Freeman) to represent various involvements that I have and have had. From my academic work and publications, to commissioned collaborations and recreational musicking.