Journeyman: music for mobile phones, 2014–2019

Journeyman is an evolving software system exploring approaches to composition for mobile devices. It exploits the complex array of sensing devices on contemporary mobile phones to perform pieces in real-time as you move around. The piece has performative dimensions, but can simply be used to accompany your commute. Multiple versions made so far are explained below.

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For exhibitions

The first version of journeyMan was developed for Talbot Rice Gallery in 2014-15. Visitors were encouraged to play the app while exploring Christopher Orr’s The Beguiled Eye exhibition, however, you can listen to this piece anywhere.

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For archives

Journeyman for arhives was made for the the extraordinary collection of speeches, talks and presentations stored in the archives of the Conference on World Affairs. It was presented in Boulder Colorado in April 2015.

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unsettled and oversensitive

This version of the project was built using a new synthesis engine I have put together that smashes together FM and other techniques an quite unruly ways. It was premiered in a duet performance at St Cecilia’s Hall in Edinburgh in February 2018.