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Craig Gell

Composer and Sound Artist

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Category: Sound Art

Wind Chime

A virtual wind chime, created in Pure Data (Pd), reacts to real-time Met Office data. Wind speed and wind direction data is used to trigger a pentatonic scale of synthetic bell-like sounds. An automated text-to-speech recitation of the corresponding weather conditions is sounded at regular intervals, using descriptions from the Beaufort scale.

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Posted on March 18, 2020January 13, 2023Categories Sound ArtTags Audio Synthesis, Data Sonification, Pure Data

Wave Machine

Live sea wave data streamed from a marine observation buoy is transformed into a continuous electronic soundscape. Using the Pure Data (Pd) programming platform, the various sea and wave measurements are used to shape and control the different parameters of sound.

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Posted on February 21, 2020January 13, 2023Categories Sound ArtTags Audio Synthesis, Data Sonification, Installation, Pure Data

Green Language

Created in collaboration with eco-poet Chris Poundwhite, Green Language offers a unique perspective on the ever-present Folkestone Downs. Through a blend of transportive soundscapes and poetry, we explore its rich ecosystem and consider our relationship to this integral part of the local landscape.

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Posted on September 16, 2019January 13, 2023Categories Sound ArtTags Composition, Field Recording, Installation, Video

Starling Broadcast

Starling Broadcast is an electroacoustic sound art piece combining bird song with digital synthesis and improvised manipulation.

Field recordings, made over three subsequent dusk evenings in late November 2018, capture the sound of starlings roosting beneath Folkestone Harbour’s 1930s swing bridge.

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Posted on February 7, 2019January 13, 2023Categories Sound ArtTags Field Recording, Improvisation, Installation, Pure Data, Sampling

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