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Andie Brown talks about her work with glass and electronics, discussing how and why she began using Max as a means-to-an-end in developing a system for her live performance and sound installation and how this work has evolved, most significantly in her recent work, Partita for Unattended Glass Harp.

andiebrownsound.com
electricspring.co.uk
research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cerenem/projects/creativecodinglab

Presented at the Creative Coding Symposium at Electric Spring 2019

Recorded and edited by Sam Gillies


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Andie will talk about her work with glass and electronics, discussing how and why she began using Max as a means-to-an-end in developing a system for her live performance and sound installation and how this work has evolved, most significantly in her recent work, Partita for Unattended Glass Harp.


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Andie Brown is a musician, artist, maker and researcher who began her music career as a bass player in her teens. In 2007 Andie began performing and recording as a solo artist under the name These Feathers Have Plumes. Since 2008, Andie has been experimenting with glass and electronics, creating what she has termed an ‘augmented glass harp’. Andie has performed extensively as a solo artist as well as collaborating with a diverse range of artists. Since completing a BSc in Music Technology at London Metropolitan University in 2016, Andie has focused her work on sound installation. She began a practice-based PhD at CeReNeM, University of Huddersfield in 2017 and in 2019 was one of six recipients of the annual PRSF Oram Awards.