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Music

A collection of 6 posts

Signal Chain

For the last few months, I've been making music as part of a collaboration called Signal Chain with photographer Oliver Holms. The collaboration was a limited-run pop-up newsletter where we would bouce off each other's creative work. I would send a piece of music, Oliver would then send a photo

Listening to the Atmosphere

Listening to the Atmosphere

I’ve built a small single-purpose Norns script [https://llllllll.co/t/ppm/54589?utm_source=duncangeere&utm_medium=email] that does one thing - emitting a tone with a pitch that represents the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. The script is called “ppm”. ppmppm parts per million a

Putting Music on the Map

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Putting Music on the Map

Our songs are trapped in time. They’re chronologically fixed. Even “Longplayer” — a piece of music written by Jem Finer that’s designed to last for one thousand years [http://longplayer.org/] — has an ending. Why? What’s so great about time that music has to have a duration? I’

Telling Stories With Data & Music

Telling Stories With Data & Music

I've just published an article for Nightingale [https://medium.com/nightingale?source=post_page-----f60ac0b5f1be--------------------------------] , the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, on the new approach to sonification that we're taking with Loud Numbers. Here's an snippet: > Our goal is to create something that not only tells a series of compelling

In My Head

A few weeks back, I appeared on a local radio station for a show called "In Your Head [http://www.k103.se/program/inyourhead]". It's a bit like Desert Island Discs - they invite someone on the show, and get to know them through a playlist that they've chosen. Now

Dymaxion Rotation

Dymaxion Rotation

Discovering new music has become more difficult for me in recent years, for two key reasons. The first is that I've had less time to spend reading the music press, which was always my favourite source of recommendations. The second is that music itself has splintered into zillions of microtrends