I work as a music and music technology lecturer at Barnsley College. I am also a songwriter and performing musician, freelance sound engineer, producer and video editor. This is the hub for my music, studies and other creative projects.
As a continuation of my Masters dissertation (completed 2010), I am working on a system of Real Time Rhythmic Automatic Accompaniment otherwise known as the ‘Automatic Accompaniment Project’ (AAP). Essentially the system is a sequenced backing track that pushes and pulls along with live musicians as an attempt to move away from more restrictive ‘click-track’ backing tracks. (The system breakdown can be found on pages 44-51.) I am writing an article for inclusion in the Journal of Music Technology & Education, which discusses the gap in music technology academia for pop music.
As a part of my Masters, in 2009 I created a Synthesis Tutorial program using Max5. I updated the program early 2010 (v1.03) for general release and it can be found through the Synth Tutorial page of this site: /tcsynthtutorial. It is totally interactive and is intended for anyone who is interested in learning or teaching the basics of sound synthesis.
Several tracks of my music can be found on this site – some band stuff and some solo. Hopefully there will be more of these to come, in one form or another, later in 2011. Please feel free to head to my SoundCloud if you want to leave any comments.
