28 March 2010
JG and Tychonas Michailidis present a paper entitled “Rediscovering Mozart: motion capture technology in contemporary music practice” at the Sonic Arts in Wales Electroacoustic Symposium 2010.
Read more...26 February 2010
JG records the Cambridge New Music Ensemble in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.
Read more...26 February 2010
A student performance of Steve Reich’s video opera.
Read more...26 February 2010
JG sound engineers at Kettle’s Yard.
Read more...28 January 2010
Live recording of the Cambridge Songbook recital in Kettle’s Yard.
Read more...23 January 2010
JG records Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge.
Read more...10 January 2010
A new Max/MSP panning patch that uses common stereo microphone arrays as the basis for positioning recorded sounds in auditory space.
Read more...8 November 2009
Cambridge New Music Ensemble in Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Read more...25 October 2009
A home-made 8 channel snake using high quality components.
Read more...29 September 2009
JG sound engineers for the Athelas Sinfonietta for two concerts in Denmark. Programme: Strange News by Rolf Wallin and Voi(rex) by Phillipe Leroux
Read more...21 September 2009
JG sound engineers for a London Sinfonietta performance of Jonathan Harvey’s Bird Concerto with Pianosong at the 2009 Warsaw Autumn Festival, Poland.
Read more...10 September 2009
Loop through regions of sound files and modulate any parameter without causing clicks.
Read more...28 August 2009
An implementation of granular synthesis in Max/MSP.
Read more...15 August 2009
Performance of Julia Barber’s “After the Shock” for solo violin and live electronics at the Royal College of Music.
Read more...6 August 2009
JG installs the new sound studio at Eastside Projects, Digbeth.
Read more...20 June 2009
My Secret Heart installation at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Read more...6 June 2009
MidiToText is a simple command-line utility to extract MIDI data into a comma separated list.
Read more...24 May 2009
A simple and robust motor interface for real-time physical control of interactive art works.
Read more...12 May 2009
Live recording of Handel’s opera performed by the Cambridge Handel Opera Group at West Road Concert Hall.
Read more...24 March 2009
Dan Tidhar performs JS Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy in D minor BWV903.
Read more...8 March 2009
Sarah Nicolls performs Into Movements and two other pieces for piano and electronics at a Sunday Morning concert at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Read more...8 February 2009
JG records “Blaze of Noon” for soprano and piano by Phillip Neil Martin.
Read more...8 January 2009
JG records pupil’s compositions at King Edward VI School, Handsworth.
Read more...18 December 2008
JG writes documentation and manual for “Strange News” by Rolf Wallin
Read more...12 December 2008
JG records the Wren Choir’s Carol Service in the Pembroke College Chapel.
Read more...27 November 2008
JG records Quartet for the End of Time at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge.
Read more...23 November 2008
JG engineers for a BCMG performance of Voi(rex) by Phillipe Leroux.
Read more...13 November 2008
A concert of Baroque music performed by music students at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge.
Read more...4 November 2008
Sarah Nicolls performs Piece for Piano and Lamp at Brunel University as part of a Shadowplay concert of new music.
Read more...30 October 2008
Multi-video playback system for Catherine Yass’ High Wire. Commissioned by Art Angel.
Read more...24 October 2008
JG assists composer David Horne and violinist Alexandra Wood at the King Edward VI Handsworth School, Birmingham.
Read more...16 October 2008
A DIY speaker system built to generate and process background sound for a documentary.
Read more...24 September 2008
JG records Martin Creed’s “Work No 955” performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons in Symphony Hall.
Read more...21 September 2008
A networked multi-channel synchronised distance sensor system to detect the movement of people around an architectural exhibit.
Read more...21 August 2008
Photograph by Clive Barda
JG records Streetwise Opera participants around the UK.
Read more...21 August 2008
Sarah Nicoll’s BMIC Cutting Edge Concert in November last year is broadcast on Hear and Now, Radio 3.
Read more...17 July 2008
Following the concert, JG records David Purser performing the pieces at the Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire.
Read more...12 July 2008
JG records the Cambridge Camerata in concert at the West Road Concert Hall.
Read more...7 July 2008
Multi-channel audio and multi-channel video playback system for Paul Pfeiffer’s The Saints. Commissioned by Art Angel.
Read more...27 June 2008
“Dress as a man dressed as a bat. Then fall.” Keir Williams, 2008.
Photo by Nikki Pugh
JG manages PA and audio recording for a concert of new and existing Fluxus works at St Pauls Church, Birmingham.
Read more...22 June 2008
JG engineers at Sarah Nicolls’ concert at this year’s Soundwaves Festival in the Pavilion Theatre, Brighton.
Read more...17 June 2008
A concert for trombone (David Purser) and live electronics (JG) at the Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire.
Read more...14 June 2008
JG records the audio for a DVD recording of the 2008 Nigel Brown Competition, University of Cambridge.
Read more...10 June 2008
JG supervises the electronics for the final Integra Festival concert with the BCMG in Birmingham.
Read more...21 May 2008
The Talk Magazine: “an amazing, mind-boggling piece.”
Read more...12 May 2008
JG and Angela Balint perform Anthemes II to Pierre Boulez as part of the Boulez in Birmingham event on 12th May 2008.
Read more...3 May 2008
JG and violinist Angela Balint are invited to IRCAM in preperation for a performance of Pierre Boulez’s Anthemes II on 9th May in Birmingham.
Read more...8 April 2008
Jonathan engineers for the BCMG on an intensive Rural Tour day.
Read more...9 March 2008
Jonathan moves to Cambridge to work at the Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge.
Read more...28 January 2008
JG perform a new version of Piece for Large Metal Sheet at this year’s SightSonic Festival on March 15th.
Read more...30 November 2007
Sarah Nicolls plays JG’s Into Movements for piano and motion sensors at The Warehouse, London, as part of the BMIC’s Cutting Edge Tour. To be broadcast on Radio 3 sometime in January.
Read more...21 November 2007
Jonathan provides technical support for another performance of Julian Anderson’s Book of Hours by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Oliver Knussen.
Read more...11 November 2007
Sarah Nicolls performs the first part of Into Movements on “In Tune”, BBC Radio 3, 13th November 2007.
Read more...13 September 2007
JG and Gregory (director, VRU) give a demo of home-made prototype of Lightpipe at the E-Science 2007 All Hands Meeting held in Nottingham.
Read more...11 September 2007
JG oversees electronics for a performance of Julian Anderson’s Book of Hours by Oliver Knussen and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at the BBC Proms.
Read more...28 June 2007
Experimental acoustic-electronic music and video installation and concert.
Read more...22 June 2007
Jonathan Green from the Visualisation Research Unit gives a short presentation on Real-Time Data Acquisition at the AHRC ICT Methods Network conference, 19th June 2007.
Read more...15 June 2007
Jonathan is giving a demonstration of live electronics with recorder alongside Sarah Jeffery on 20 June 2007 to students at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
Read more...11 June 2007
I’m involved in two sound installations and a concert for the New Generation Arts Festival.
Read more...11 June 2007
Sarah Nicolls has commissioned me to compose a piece for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007 .
Read more...11 June 2007
I’ve been asked to do the electronics for Julian Anderson’s piece Book of Hours at this years Proms.
Read more...16 May 2007
Keir Williams and Jonathan Green from the VRU give a demo of networked audio-visual performance environments at St Martins, London.
Read more...8 May 2007
I’ve been working on developing a piece for acoustic-electronic piano where all the sound generation occurs inside the piano (no pre-recorded sounds and lots of feedback…).
Read more...24 April 2007
The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group performed Johannes Maria Staud’s new piece ‘One Movement and Five Miniatures’, for which I developed the electronics using Max/MSP.
Read more...6 December 2006
Some thoughts about how and why to document the technological aspect of musical works.
Read more...3 December 2006
Max is not keeping up with trends in software design and because it cannot evolve (see below), another solution should be found.
Read more...3 December 2006
A slightly academic introduction to a series of short practice-based Max/MSP workshops aimed at beginners in technology in the performing arts. In this workshop, an overview of Max/MSP and it’s capabilities will be presented alongside an introduction to the Max methodology.
Read more...1 December 2006
Notes and patches for the introductory Max/MSP workshop given at the Birmingham Conservatoire lead by myself.
Read more...21 November 2006
An overview of a demonstration by a VJ (Keir Williams), electronic musician (Jonathan Green) and a dancer, of a computer network designed especially for the performing arts.
Read more...19 November 2006
A system which allows control data (MIDI, Open Sound Control) to be streamed over the internet.
Read more...30 October 2006
This workshop will focus on the identification and practicalities of e-science models and solutions.
Read more...22 June 2006
Played by Sarah Nicolls in the Corsham Festival 2006 on 21st June.
Read more...22 June 2006
Launch concert of Ensemble Interakt, exploring interaction with computer generated sounds.
Read more...16 April 2006
Live sampler which records sound to a unique buffer when an attack is detected.
Read more...14 April 2006
A suggestion for a family of hardware devices for performing works with live electronics. These devices do not exist and are probably not financially feasible for a manufacturer.
Read more...12 April 2006
Just completed: a MaxMSP live sampler which loops material with crossfades.
Read more...11 April 2006
Roadmap for the development of the David’s Garden live electronics environment.
Read more...9 April 2006
Prototyping real-time signal processing networks in Logic.
Read more...8 April 2006
Cormac Faulkner’s sound installation at the Herbert Gallery in Coventry.
Read more...7 April 2006
A hardware/software environment for improvisation with electronics to be completed by June 2006.
Read more...12 January 2005
Julian Anderson’s composition for ensemble and live electronics.
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