Performance/talk: Embodying algorithmic music
Reposted from Alex McLean. I’m off to the RMA study day on “Embodied Research Methods in Music Sound” in More
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(un)weaving workshop, April 2026
We had a lot of fun running an unweaving, aka “reverse drafting” workshop in Sheffield last Tuesday! This was inspired … More
Knitting
I’m drawn back to Sanquhar knitting again! A guide to the patterns Videos from May MacCormick on knitting - knitting class introduction, part one, part two I also found the seemingly less well-known tradition from the Yorkshire Dales of “Dales Glove...
Weaving 8-shaft crackle patterns
We acquired an eight-shaft table loom for the algorithmic pattern project, and have been exploring 'crackle weave' patterns, where a threading pattern is created by repeating a small motif is repeated along a path, with intermediate steps added accordi...
Short film: Pattern Club Winter School
Last winter, we ran a winter school as part of the Algorithmic Pattern project, in collaboration with Ray Morrison and Lucy Cheesman. With participants with diverse practices brought together via an open call, we explored patterns in origami, dance, mu...
Tying knots in Düsseldorf
In January Alex, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Dave were invited by our long term collaborator and friend Julian Rohrhuber to visit the Institute for Music and Media (IMM) in Düsseldorf to expand on our previous work together with Andean Khipu.The t...
Upcoming research workshop: Natural Language as Heritage Code
I was happy to meet linguist Wataru Uegaki at a research crucible event connected with my fellowship (we are both More
Exploring 8 shaft weaving
Reposted from Alex McLean. After a bit of time off from weaving after the PENELOPE project, it was great to More
Workshop: On being formal: communal informatics, khipu technologies, extractivism, and debt.
We are running a workshop alongside Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Julian Rohrhuber on the 31st January at the Epistemic Media Research Group (Institute for Music and Media) in Düsseldorf. This event will be a convergence of two areas of recent resea...
Weaving to understand how humans think
I've been playing with a weaving pattern over the last few months, it's based on one of the oldest pieces of fabric found, in Hallstatt in Austria. The papers and publications on it are largely pay-walled and quite tricky to get hold of, but ...