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- 19.10.20 Inspiration shoud always be a fuzzy thing
Right now the work I’m making is often monochromatic, exploring light and shadow, composition and contrast within a greyscale palette. This …
- 01.06.20 From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange | …
From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange | Music | The Guardian
- 03.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd May 2020
During the sixth week of lockdown I explored some sound reactive work in Houdini. I'd played around with this type of stuff before, and …
- 24.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 24th February 2020
Over the year's my desk has been host to many different notebooks, from the default Moleskine, to a super-posh Smythson Soho I picked up in …
- 16.01.20 Making The Art of Cybersecurity
A year on from when this work was commissioned, I thought I'd write up my thinking and process that went into The Art of Cybersecurity — my …
- 05.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 5th January 2020
Every now and then I like to go back and revisit an experiment I've been playing with, to see if I can dig down further, to see what might …
- 22.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd December 2019
The Dubai large screen visualisation enquiry I had last week has now been moved back to a little later in the New Year, so the pressure is …
- 15.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 15th December 2019
It seems next year the theme is one of collaboration if this week's phone conversations is anything to go by. The last few weeks have been …
- 01.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 1st December 2019
I started to drill down into my Code in your Pocket print project. As I began to play with the code I realised some of the iterations began …
- 24.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 24th November 2019
On Thursday I travelled to Glasgow to speak at the inaugural Silicon Swalley — an event organised by Filament PD, who I haven't seen for a …
- 20.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 20th October 2019
This latest work is almost done, except now I'm trying to wrestle with these new colours that need to be incorporated somehow. My initial …
- 30.09.19 Handy FFMpeg Automator Scripts
This is a follow up to the post detailing how to quickly convert sequential images into a movie using ffmpeg. Since writing that I've added …
- 23.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd September 2019
When I have a bit of down time I try and use that time to learn new things or new techniques that I might later use in my work. So this …
- 25.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — 25th August 2019
My free copy of Vitsoe Voice arrived, complete with Gary Hustwit on the cover. Inside he talked about his latest film, Rams, about the …
- 11.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — August 11th 2019
My new print — Manifesto for Myself — arrived on the Tuesday from Harvey Lloyd Screens and looked fantastic. It's an A5 two colour screen …
- 03.07.19 Making it up as you go along: how your brain improvises
Making it up as you go along: how your brain improvises Interesting piece in The Guardians on how certain parts of the brain go quiet when …
- 02.07.19 A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him | Music | The Guardian
A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him | Music | The Guardian I first heard about this story when I watched Whiplash, though I …
- 01.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 30th June 2019
Even though I had just signed the contract for my next project, there was still a few things to fall into place before I could actually …
- 28.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 28th April 2019
The week started out on a sad note when John Davey announced he was ending the Reasons festival which happens in Brighton each year. I …
- 19.04.19 My Conference Code of Conduct
Many conferences now have a codes of conduct. So in this same spirit I thought I would write the code of conduct for ME that I can pass to …
- 29.03.19 A simple fade in and out technique with TouchDesigner
I was recently working on a project in TouchDesigner in which I needed to fade in and out background music when a voiceover came on. I …
- 28.03.19 There’s nothing more satisfying than when you manage to figure out something …
Currently working on a project in TouchDesigner and needed an elegant way to fade out and fade in audio programmatically. In the end I used …
- 27.11.18 A sound-led dive into deep time and ‘the long now'
A sound-led dive into deep time and ‘the long now' Beautifully made radio program from the BBC about deep time and the long now.
- 30.09.18 Radio 4 Data Stream Day
Radio 4 Data Stream Day Radio 4 takes the entire output of one day’s broadcast and turns it into art. I was very honoured to be asked by …
- 18.08.18 Experimental music notation resources
Experimental music notation resources There’s always new ways to look at things.
- 18.06.18 From the archive: Chomsky Space
I took some Noam Chomsky sound bites and put them into a 3D interface. The idea was encourage exploration through sound and typography, …
- 09.05.18 All of these in the palm of my hand are generated from music
Probably should do something with them one day.
- 30.01.18 Strangelove. Or how I stopped worrying how web design is meant to be and got …
brendandawes.com has been online since 2000. Over that time it’s been through various incarnations, from purely Flash based (gasp) to …
- 08.01.18 Digital Harmony by John Whitney (1980). John Whitney was a pioneer of computer …
- 14.10.17 Another study in sound generated structures.