nick rothwell
@cassiel.com
digital music and visuals designer, software builder, generative process collaborator for the performing arts. grapheme-colour synæsthete.
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Since this will soon be much less relevant here, you need to see the Swiss Guards' rain wear before it's too late
May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Since this will soon be much less relevant here, you need to see the Swiss Guards' rain wear before it's too late
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Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne
April 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne
Call for participants: Choreographic Coding Lab, Creative Computing Institute, UAL, High Holborn. Looking for creative coders, technologists, digital artists, movement practitioners, choreographers.
March 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Call for participants: Choreographic Coding Lab, Creative Computing Institute, UAL, High Holborn. Looking for creative coders, technologists, digital artists, movement practitioners, choreographers.
Just backed this worthy project. I have the first three volumes which are wonderful. www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
A Guide to the Birdsong of Migration
An album of music inspired by the song of migratory birds of the Americas.
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March 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just backed this worthy project. I have the first three volumes which are wonderful. www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
"Gorton is a decidedly toy-like, amateurish font deployed to for some of the most challenging type jobs: nuclear reactors, power plants, spacecraft." aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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February 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"Gorton is a decidedly toy-like, amateurish font deployed to for some of the most challenging type jobs: nuclear reactors, power plants, spacecraft." aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
"But her emails" www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
DOGE as a National Cyberattack - Schneier on Security
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, b...
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February 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"But her emails" www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
Gig, london, tomorrow. ra.co/events/2076350
AlgoRhythms at The Carpet Shop, London ⟋ RA Tickets
Let's get algoraving! Yes it's party time at the cutting edge of club music. THIS - is where the magic happens. Open to everyone. And if you're a liv...
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February 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Gig, london, tomorrow. ra.co/events/2076350
Still prepping for the gig on Wednesday. Live-coding of VSTs slowly becoming more feasible, if not exactly sensible.
February 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Still prepping for the gig on Wednesday. Live-coding of VSTs slowly becoming more feasible, if not exactly sensible.
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So great that it’s day one and we are already rating different forms of Nazi salute, who knows what’s on the advent calendar for day two.
January 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
So great that it’s day one and we are already rating different forms of Nazi salute, who knows what’s on the advent calendar for day two.
10 years since we lost Edgar Froese. My thoughts at the time: cassiel.com/2015/01/24/e...
Edgar Froese 1944-2015 - Cassiel
Cassiel: music, media, systems, performance, installation
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January 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
10 years since we lost Edgar Froese. My thoughts at the time: cassiel.com/2015/01/24/e...
I would be more amused by this if my electricity provider didn't actually show my power usage in watt-hours per minute. xkcd.com/3038/
Uncanceled Units
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January 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I would be more amused by this if my electricity provider didn't actually show my power usage in watt-hours per minute. xkcd.com/3038/
Call for artists: 2nd International Choreographic Coding Lab by Motion Bank, A+E Lab, Chatham. Application deadline: Friday! aelab.uk/event/open-c...
OPEN CALL - 2nd International Choreographic Coding Lab by Motion Bank, A+E Lab – A+E Lab
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January 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Call for artists: 2nd International Choreographic Coding Lab by Motion Bank, A+E Lab, Chatham. Application deadline: Friday! aelab.uk/event/open-c...
Putting together an online discography. Man, we had crazy fun in 1995.
January 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Putting together an online discography. Man, we had crazy fun in 1995.
Am rather enjoying Shetland (2014-): gritty police procedural, intense brooding landscapes and a guest appearance by the Bibby Stockholm.
January 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Am rather enjoying Shetland (2014-): gritty police procedural, intense brooding landscapes and a guest appearance by the Bibby Stockholm.
It's 2025 and Tate Modern are now explaining to visitors what a television is.
January 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It's 2025 and Tate Modern are now explaining to visitors what a television is.
Towards a monoculture. Building out a non-computer rig for potential gigs in 2025. (Not shown: the ancient ADAT converter, the Push 3, the monome norns.)
January 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Towards a monoculture. Building out a non-computer rig for potential gigs in 2025. (Not shown: the ancient ADAT converter, the Push 3, the monome norns.)
Happy New Year, looking forward to a great 45². Hopefully an improvement on 44², which saw Stalin’s Great Purge, the abdication of Edward VIII and the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger.
January 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Happy New Year, looking forward to a great 45². Hopefully an improvement on 44², which saw Stalin’s Great Purge, the abdication of Edward VIII and the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger.
One for the reading list: Stalin's manipulation of photographs. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photograp…
The Commissar Vanishes offers a chilling look at how on…
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December 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM
One for the reading list: Stalin's manipulation of photographs. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
Slowly working through ideas for the 2025 live rig. Right now it's a pair of norns units feeding audio into an 8-channel A/D converter box that's older than my students.
December 26, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Slowly working through ideas for the 2025 live rig. Right now it's a pair of norns units feeding audio into an 8-channel A/D converter box that's older than my students.
The Economist's 1843 magazine has some pretty sharp graphic designers.
December 8, 2024 at 3:11 PM
The Economist's 1843 magazine has some pretty sharp graphic designers.
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The inventor of the anagram has died.
May he erect a penis.
May he erect a penis.
December 6, 2024 at 12:16 PM
The inventor of the anagram has died.
May he erect a penis.
May he erect a penis.
For reasons which are not immediately obvious I have just exhumed a quarter-century-old digital mixer.
November 30, 2024 at 9:03 PM
For reasons which are not immediately obvious I have just exhumed a quarter-century-old digital mixer.
A good long read on Kraftwerk and Autobahn 50 years on. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/19/kraftwerk-autobahn-50-epic-road-trip-electronic
November 19, 2024 at 5:36 PM
A good long read on Kraftwerk and Autobahn 50 years on. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/19/kraftwerk-autobahn-50-epic-road-trip-electronic
Another Friday night impulse buy - but you can't go far wrong for a tenner. ShaperBox does a superset of this, but with less immediacy and focus. Am liking the band pass filtering in particular. https://www.cableguys.com/halftime
November 15, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Another Friday night impulse buy - but you can't go far wrong for a tenner. ShaperBox does a superset of this, but with less immediacy and focus. Am liking the band pass filtering in particular. https://www.cableguys.com/halftime
Nerve Lab: Live at UAL, 2024-10-02. Live looping and processing of stems from Listen/Move. Performed with monome arc, MIDI Fighter Spectra, Bitwig Studio, Max, custom code. https://cassiel.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-lab
November 14, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Nerve Lab: Live at UAL, 2024-10-02. Live looping and processing of stems from Listen/Move. Performed with monome arc, MIDI Fighter Spectra, Bitwig Studio, Max, custom code. https://cassiel.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-lab