We’re on campus at Royal Holloway today for our forum day on #Technology & Contemporary Classical Music: #Methodologies in #PracticeBasedResearch with a lovely group of practice researchers from around the UK. We’re going to be chatting about the #methods & methodologies we use for doing our #research, determine what approaches we have in common & discovering new strategies which might be broadly useful in this field - excited to see where we end up with this! #musictechnology #ArtisticResearch

Catching up! Just posted volumes 15 & 16 of my composition notebooks online at https://notebook.caitlinrowley.com - this brings things up to early August 2022, with intense work towards the end on From the Exquisite Dark, but also some bits on A Memory of Wind & some other bits & pieces. Almost back on track! #PracticeAsResearch #ArtisticResearch #PracticeBasedResearch

Good #writing this morning. I'm working through a section on using #interdisciplinarity to establish discursive relationships between private and public creative spaces (i.e. studio/notebook/stage) in my portfolio pieces. Finding this section more satisfying than previous bits in this chapter & I suspect at the end of it I'll be able to chop out a bunch of stuff from other sections, which will be v good. #PhDLife #ArtisticResearch #PracticeAsResearch #PracticeBasedResearch

Last chance today to submit your abstracts for the #CallForPapers for our symposium in June, Music Ex Machina: Methods & #Methodologies for Technology-Centred #PracticeBasedResearch in #ContemporaryMusic https://www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-papers-2023 #ArtisticResearch #PracticeAsResearch #musicTechnology

Started a new #ProceduralBlending diagram today, this time for Quiet Songs - it's really surprising me how it's making me think about how far back some of the ideas for these pieces have started, with seeds in work done (used or not) for multiple previous works. Also making me think hard about why I've made the decisions I've made, which is proving valuable. #PracticeAsResearch #PracticeBasedResearch #ArtisticResearch #PhDLife

This #ProceduralBlending diagram for Haydn Space Opera is beginning to terrify me - & it seems it's beginning to terrify #excalidraw too because when I save, some of the longer arrows bounce back on themselves & stop being attached to where they should be - anyone else found this/found a fix for this? (possible solution: don't make your diagram so damn enormous, I know). So much clarity going on here though... #PracticeAsResearch #PracticeBasedResearch #obsidianMD #ArtisticResearch #phdlife

Just one more day to submit your abstracts for 'Music Ex Machina: Methods and Methodologies for Technology-Centred Practice-Based Research in Contemporary Music' - deadline tomorrow! Details here: https://www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-papers-2023 #practiceasresearch #practicebasedresearch #callforpapers #artisticresearch #composerlife #performerlife #musictech #musicandtechnology #phdlife

Closing soon! Submit your abstracts for our June symposium, 'Music Ex Machina: Methods and Methodologies for Technology-centred Practice-Based Research in Contemporary Music' by 17 March. Details here: https://www.cyborgsoloists.com/call-for-papers-2023 #practiceasresearch #practicebasedresearch #musicandtechnology #callforpapers #musictech #artisticresearch

If you want to know more about Procedural Blending for analysis and creation of practice-based research, you can read a paper on her research here: http://irisgarrelfs.com/offthelippaper #practiceasresearch #artisticresearch #practicebasedresearch

I have been trying to find time to fill some gaps in the documentation of my work that relies on the Twitter API to function. These were mostly done in collaboration with Chris Rodley and were usually installed in galleries and public sights.

B.E.T.T.Y. (2014) is one such work.

It asks, "What happens when a chatbot draws their words from social media?"

I have revisited many times, and as the tone of Twitter, and it's user-base has changed over the years, so too has B.E.T.T.Y.'s tone. If the API goes dark tomorrow, then today is probably the last time I will get to interact with her

#electronicLiterature #elo #generativeArt #designResearch #digitalhumanities #practiceBasedResearch

https://andrewburrell.net/projects/b-e-t-t-y

“Death of an Alchemist” - 2015 (2023 code update). Big-data narrative projection. Datasources - Twitter and various text and image web scraping. It’s tone feels somewhat different than it did in 2015.

#electronicLiterature #elo #generativeArt #designResearch #digitalhumanities #practiceBasedResearch

Some of my “writing with big-data” collaborations with Chris Rodley feature in this new book from John Potts - “The Near-Death of the Author
Creativity in the Internet Age“

Some very interesting discussions around the slippery role of an author in guiding generative text (I see it more as providing conditions for finding patterns in found text) into being and then standing back to let other forces takes control - Author as Demiurge, as Potts puts it.

#electronicLiterature #elo #generativeArt #designResearch #digitalhumanities #practiceBasedResearch

How is it 1.30am?? This is the downside of #Obsidian, clearly. I haven't been this engrossed in my #research (even while still enjoying it) in a very long time. Is it just that I have a new toy to play with? Possibly, but I'm thinking not entirely - I keep raising new ideas & connections & questions to the surface & it's addictive - be warned... #PracticeBasedResearch #ArtisticResearch #PhDLife @phdstudents

other stuff:

#QueerEcologies
#QueerEcology
#EnvironmentalJustice
#PracticeBasedResearch
#LandBack
#NatureNerd
#WalkingMethodologies
#LandBasedMethodologies
#Ethnobotany
#bikes #CargoBike
#decolonizing #AntiCapitalist #reciprocity #envhum #geog