And finally
OK so I haven’t really had the chance to keep this resource up to date over the past few months, and my internet presence is somewhat lagging behind. I’ve been working on the Oramics project (I now have the machine and am developing it with some pretty big players), working on my Brain Computer Interface project (which is now much faster), designing a studio for audiovisual cognition and arts/technology research at Goldsmiths (which will be world leading), and doing a fair amount of related research and promotion, including giving 6 invited talks at different Universities, as well as running Creative Computing here at Goldsmiths, where I am very happy. There’s been a few radio interviews too, mainly for the BBC. I did a few gigs, and helped to organise the Future of Sound/ Future of Light Symposium, which featured the totally genius Andrei Smirnov from the theremin centre, who I will be working with much more closely I hope. Also I’ve been working on building some objects for Max MSP that do feature extraction and search for sound and image, and helping to manage the new Mabuse VST plugin development which is seriously sexy and will be released soon. Then there was raga explorer, a collaborative software tool for exploring Indian classical music. I did this with SPNM, who’ve merged with SAN, BMIC and some other into what I hope will be an excellent organisation that doesn’t waste public money, but invests it in truly novel sound and music programmes for the benefit of all.. Hint hint.
I hope this is of interest to some of you. One thing I have learned in the transition from lowly avant-gardist to whatever I am now, is the sheer amount of work that is involved. It’s got to the stage where there is simply not enough time to do the everyday things that I used to take for granted, like showing up to the Roundhouse at the weekend to see the various Daphne Oram related events I have helped to make happen over the last few months. I’m particularly excited about Andrea Parker’s Oram performance, which should be great. There’s also a film by a guy called Barry Gibb, which should be good, with unheard music from our Daphne Oram Collection.
Finally, I got married, bought a house, and my partner and I are having a baby. These, I have to say, were the best things to happen over the last few months.
Truth is, I am now so busy that this could be my final post here for a while.
However, as I think you might be able to tell, it won’t be the last word by any stretch of the imagination.
Kind regards,
Mick




