Have you ever tried writing out a standalone “Hello, World!” program in Java, away from an IDE, and instead on a piece of paper or a whiteboard?

In 2011, it was discovered that the star Kepler-18 has 3 exoplanets using the Photometric Transit method. I thought, why not try to make an audio file out of the data collected by the Kepler satellite on this light curve!

So I spent today helping out with plotting the output of the Scanse LiDAR sensor.

I’ve been writing some music for a film my brother is creating.

Weather. It’s all around us! Here’s a map of all the Met Office’s weather stations. This map was made using the plotly library in Python.

How did he do this by hand??? Amazing technique and patience!

After trying Euclidian Sequences, I had a look at some different methods of generating rhythmical sequences. I wanted to find something elegant, with a minimum of parameters, that might also be intuitive for control. I decided to make use of triggering events via binary means, and after a little research found a nice idea in the “De Bruijn Sequences”.

Here are some nice sprinklings!

Sitting quietly, doing nothing.
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

This is a piece of music that I was commissioned to write by cave photographer Andy Freem for the opening film for Hidden Earth 2015, the annual caving conference organised by the British Cave Research Association (BCRA).