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Oct 28, 2011

Christina and Charles Ragtime Project

Christina’s favourite kind of percussion music is ragtime xylophone, so we’ve decided to start a duo project recording and performing the music of George Hamilton Green, Red Norvo and many others.

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Oct 28, 2011

A computer music system for vibraphone

I recently finished my first prototype for a dedicated computer music system for vibraphone, just in time to use it at Electrofringe at the end of September and to take with me to Sweden!

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Sep 29, 2011

Nordlig Vinter at Electrofringe

Heading up to Newcastle tomorrow for Electrofringe and This Is Not Art! The best part is that I’m putting on the first performance of my new project “Norra Vinter” along with my lovely and supportive fiancée, Christina. Norra Vinter is a suite for percussion and iOS reflecting the sights and sounds of life in Northern Sweden, since I’ve used RjDJ to develop the iOS component of the performance, I’ve reworked some of it as an interactive sound experience for the audience to download and take away! So here’s the link (click this using mobile safari on an iOS device!):

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Sep 12, 2011

Developing for RjDj on Mac OS X Lion

update the developer tools from rjdj.me have been updated for lion now.

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Sep 2, 2011

Last Man to Die and Arduino Fio

Last week the Last Mans and I put on a little run of our show as part of National Science Week.

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Aug 19, 2011

lessons in improvisation and jazz vibraphone/marimba

In August and September 2011 I’m offering lessons in improvisation and jazz interpretation on vibraphone and marimba. Lessons will be in my home studio where the student and I will have enough space for collaborative music making and exploration.

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