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Iain McCurdy is a composer of electroacoustic music based in Belfast. His tape music and instrumental music has been performed throughout the British Isles, across Europe, and in North and South America and Australia. On the site you will find information about many of his compositions including mp3 excerpts and programme notes. There is also a catalogue of over two hundred example csound files. The purpose of these examples is to teach both Csound and general computer music principles. They make extensive use of FLTK graphical user interfaces to allow the user to explore the sounds produced without having to delve into the code. (Delving into the code is encouraged however!) Some of my recent work has explored the possibility of building low cost electronic sensors for music. Videos of some of these experiments can be found under 'Techniques'. Last Update: 2nd July 2010

2nd July 2010 - added 3 examples to Csound catalogue.

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* The 'Carchofa' (*) Electric Band: an Electronic Workshop for 300 children between 12-14 years old, using local vegetables fruits, sensors, electronics and computers by composers Iain McCurdy and Ricardo Climent. * Where/when: Friday, 29th May, @ 10 am. Biblioteca Suecana, Claustre, Sueca, (Valencia), Spain. Festival: 5th Muestra Sonora de Sueca. Participants will need to bring a piece of fruit or veggie from home. Alongside this workshop, McCurdy will present his sound installation Pendulum, already presented at MANTIS 08 and Spanish trombonist Carlos Gil will perform Climent's works Gyrosbone (2005) and Trombonsis (1999). (*) Carchofa means artichoke in Valencian language.