Nicholas Kirk-Canny is an improviser, composer and creative coder with experience in instrumental and digital music. He recently completed a Ph.D. in Creative Music Practice at the University of Edinburgh, which involved the humanisation of electronic music. Currently, he is working as a postdoc at the Computer Music Laboratory at the Open University in Milton Keynes, on the Polifonia Access Pilot, which aims to develop new ways to enhance participation and engagement in music.

Nick’s Instagram

Nick’s Soundcloud

Nick’s PhD

Keith McMillen SoftStep

The Guitar Wing

The Triple Play MIDI pickups

Kurt Rosenwinkel’s website

The Open University Music Lab website

Rob Clouth’s website

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​ollie turbitt is a scottish-italian musician, sound artist, and audio engineer based in trento, italy. as well as providing guitar and bass duties for a handful of bands, he has pursued a fluctuating solo career in avant-garde exploration. under the pseudonyms oxhead, sforza gramsci, oj turbitt, hermetic gaze and others, his self-released cassettes, usbs and digital albums have aimed to express ideas of cultural memory, psychogeography, false consciousness and mysticism/esotericism through improvisation, sound collage, ambient textures, laptop experimentation and field recordings. ollie also runs dead hound records (which serves as a platform for both his own material and an increasing list of international experimental acts) & works in freelance mixing/mastering.

Ollie’s website

Dead Hound Records bandcamp

Brigid we Built on Rock from Skein

All Things in Common from Omnia Sunt Communia (Synthetic Landscapes for Tape, Computer and Filterbank)

VCV Rack modular synthesis software

1982, Janine by Alisdair Gray

Castel Sant’Angelo Rome website

Kevin Drumm’s Imperial Distortion

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

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