Music Production
I like making music with technology, including electronic music and sound design. I prefer to generate ideas with hardware but then finish them in a DAW. I use Apple's Logic Pro and Ableton Live with Push. I'm interested in multiple genres.
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TAiL
"Velvet Underground-style psych pop. Melodic vocals alternate with snippets of self-penned beatnik poetry. Visual projections and malfunctioning vintage gear complete the experience." Ben Bailey, The Brighton Source.
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ja! Sputnik
Described as 'Kraftwerk reserves with a couple of the Laibach youth team', we play motorik influenced, high-energy spacerock.
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Jazz piano
I briefly had piano lessons as a child. Decades later I returned to it and fell in love. I've now practiced daily for nearly seven years. It's improvisation and the rich harmonic language of jazz that fascinates me the most.
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Where is My Mind?
I like doing covers. This is an interpretation of French composer Maxence Cyrin's arrangement of 'Where is my Mind?' by Pixies.
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Everybody's Talkin'
My guitar, vocal and production skills come together in this, a cover of Fred Neil's Everybody's Talkin'. A song made popular by Harry Nilsson and featured in John Schlesinger's 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy.
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Eric Sanders' 100th birthday
The Von Krapp Singers are a three-part vocal harmony group. We performed at the 100th birthday of Eric Sanders, a celebrated Viennese emigre who fled the Nazis as a boy.
Everyone's Library for Brighton and Hove Libraries
Public installation, January 2024
I partnered with Brighton and Hove Libraries on a public installation promoting their Everyone's Library campaign. It invited users to share what the library means to them via a React app talking to a Google Firebase back-end.
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HTML5 games for Cambridge University Press
2021 - 2023
I am currently working with London-based agency Alternative View Studios developing a suite of editable templated HTML5 games for Cambridge University Press.
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Hardcoded Ltd
Since 2006
I am a senior front-end developer. I've worked with market-leading digital agencies since 2006, helping them create award-winning content for household names in finance, entertainment, telecommunications and the media.
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Education and early career
1998 - 2006
I have a postgraduate degree in Hypermedia Studies. I've worked in new media since 1998, originally as an Adobe Flash developer. I was a co-founder of Kerb, an award-winning agency that pioneered viral marketing before social media was even a thing.
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Patchhero
Personal project, 2022
Patchhero is an independently released iPhone app. It's the missing screen for your Sequential OB6 synthesiser; allowing you to navigate, name, categorise, and filter patches.
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The Moderator
The Moderator is a thriller about a guy who works for a social media company. His girlfriend is missing until she's seen in a video flagged for inappropriate content.
The Alice Frequency
The Alice Frequency is a literary novel about a disturbed young woman who believes she's receiving transmissions from an abandoned radio station.
Desire's Harmonium
Desire's Harmonium tells the story of the arrival of a mysterious stranger into the lives of a group of friends who live in and around Reno, Nevada. It was my first novel.
Ketchup
I tried to write a serious 5-minute short as a screenwriting exercise, but instead wrote the pilot episode of a bawdy sitcom called Ketchup, set in a seafront café.
Tokyo blog
I won a competition to shadow a press junket to Tokyo and blog for 3 mobile using one of the first handsets to provide internet services, including social media; Hutchison's INQ1.
Chernobyl and Pripyat tour
Fascinated by modern ruins, I took a tour of the abandoned city of Pripyat and the damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.
The Analog Lab
I took the technical mentoring program at The Analog Lab, NYC. It taught the design, repair and restoration of vintage electronic musical instruments.
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
This fascinating collection of uncommon devices could easily be mistaken for the artefacts of a counterfactual history. They are in fact the arcade machines of the former Soviet Union.
Atari Punk Console
A literal implementation of Forrest M. Mimm's classic stepped tone generator circuit, and a tribute to the legendary Atari VCS 2600 that inspired it.
Sprites and Dirty Circuits
Sprites and Dirty circuits are two collections of work inspired by classic video game characters, and the printed circuit boards of vintage synthesisers.