the name is the thing
This month's piece is a (relatively) straightforward music sequencer. There are 6 circular looping sequencers, each moving slower than the last, and you can...
wings unfurled
This one's unfinished, sorry. I've managed to keep to a fairly intense rate of productivity since the start of lockdown, and I think last weekend it finally...
tentative translations
Ever since twitter offered the option, I’ve been adding image descriptions to any images I tweet. Reading the white pube’s review of Abi Palmer’s What Now?,...
lost in the echo
This month’s piece is an augmented drawing tool/musical instrument. Each gesture/line you draw… …serves as a musical pattern. A cursor will travel along the...
a quiet clamouring
This month’s piece was a slightly difficult one. I don’t know where I first heard the idea that each piece of software you develop has it’s own grain (was it...
numbers go up
Following on from last month’s piece, this month I made an actual videogame (I think this is the first traditional videogame I’ve made for this project?). I...
become a successful game developer in just 7 days
Drawing on thecatamites, BECOME A GREAT ARTIST, Powerpoint and Bitsy, this month’s piece is a tongue-in-cheek game making program/teach-yourself-game-...
a message written in the curve of the horizon
In which I work out my anxieties about the coronavirus lockdown.Not sure how to convey this one in words. It’s an interactive… fiction… fragment? I don’t...
a smile, risen on the dark face of the sky
This piece’s title comes from a line in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. I found it a bit hard going in places, but it ended so...
your waiting song
Another drawing tool. With this one you can only perform 1 action each (real-world) day: you can either draw a single stroke, or you can erase the image...
all the longings of a waiting world
The linked software appears to be a high-density dimensional tunnel bore, capable of providing limited surveillance of an unidentified paraphysical...
tell me about your day and I will sing you a song
This month’s piece is a fairly straightforward sonified diary. Each letter you type triggers a note (and a wandering pen that draws until it hits something)....
instructions for a life on the wing
I’ve found myself thinking a lot about gamepoems lately, so this month’s piece is a cycle of gamepoems with some minimal audiovisual interaction. Each (real-...
the lights I saw over the river
First, some background: My house looks out over the Tay, towards the road bridge. If I look to the east I can see the oil rigs waiting to be...
a wanderer's map
This month’s piece is part Kentucky Route Zero, part A Strange Voyage, and part vector flowfield. Run it and it will generate an idiosyncratic, wandering...
this sky is a canvas
I love the strange tangents and unexpected details that arise when you try and translate something from one medium to another. This month’s piece was born of...
the company of clouds
I take a lot of photos. One of my recurring preoccupations is using code to make those photos move. I’m not interested in having them move in a realistic...
there are secrets
If you read last week’s letter you can maybe guess where the inspiration for this one came from (visually at least, if not aurally).I’m starting to think...
111bpm
This is a ritual of rhythm.Use it to reset, to recalibrate your relationship to time. Time does not flow in a consistent, constant stream. It speeds and...
turn left
Hi folks. I think with videogames it's sometimes easy to forget that the game is not just what's happening on screen, or in the code. The game is also what's...