Portfolio

Below are various projects I completed between 2004 - 2008 at De Montfort University, Leicester where I studied BSc Music Technology & Innovation and MSc Creative Technologies

MSc Research Projects

• Social Network Identity Research Project

  On Facebook our virtual profile identity is often a miss-representation of our true offline identity. Documented in this report is a detailed analysis of identity consumption within Facebook followed by a critique of the Facebook Application Platform as a tool for Social Network Research. Read more »

• Fedaks Facebook Research Project

  As part of a preliminary research project a data mining tool was developed and deployed as an application within the popular social networking site facebook. Between March and April 2008 data was extracted from 58 facebook profiles and after analysis, relationships between individual data fields were identified. Read more »

• Aesthetic qualities of music technology

  Despite an ever increasing technological power, as we have moved into the 21st century, there have been no major changes in the genres of music we compose. Today with so much emphasis devoted to increasing our technological power should we now start to ask ourselves, where was the aesthetic in our actions and why have we come to expect so much from technology in music? Read more »

• Demon Mobile Web 2.0 Application Prototype

  An application concept proposed to bring WEB 2.0 functionality to De Montfort University student information services. In particular, incorporating RSS and folksonomy collaborative tagging to aid in the development of a more semantic information network and prevent academics from information overload. Read more »

Adobe Flash Application Development

• Flash MP3 Player Widget For Myspace (pt.2)

  A Flash audio application developed to make use of the data grid flash component. Improved features inlclude right click funtionality with links to artist's homepages, mp3 track downloads and shuffle playlist mode. Listen here »

• Flash MP3 Player Widget For Myspace (pt.1)

  A Flash mp3 player developed for myspace profiles. Mp3 tracks are pulled in to the Flash data grid component via ann external mp3 file. Features buffering, loading progress bar and skip functionality. Listen here »

• Oasis photo puzzle game Flash widget

  A simple Flash puzzle featuring Manchester rock band Oasis. Consists of 4 x 4 grid of jumbled up tiles which need re-arranging to complete the oasis band photo. However you can only one tile at a time. Play here »

• Starbar interactive Flash drink pouring game

  A crude drink pouring game set on location in Leicester outside Manilla Night Club and Vodka Revolution on New Walk Street. There are 3 levels to the game which test your skills and pouring red wine, opal nera black sambuca and tropicana orange juice! Play here »

Audio Recording & Musical Composition

• Louie Louie in the style of Joy Division

  This is a cover version of Louie Louie in the style of Manchester post punk band Joy Division. The track was written by Richard Berry but later made famous by The Kingsmen. The track features myself on vocals, keyboards and guitar and Wibisono Sjarif on drums and percussion. Listen here »

• Force of Electro a Jsyn (Java) poem

  Jysn is a Java API for real-time audio synthesis and computer music production. Jysn is fundamentally a synthesis language inspired by Csound and other MUSIC-N languages. Force of Electro was created using 5 different synth circuits and an audio buffer to playback speech. Listen here »

Short Film Production in Leicester

• Return of the Soldier - Indonesian short film

  This short film was shot very early one morning in late January 2007 and tells the story of an Indonesian student battling serious depression and homesickness. Watch here »

• Fast Food Fat Nation - slideshow documentary

  A short film about fast food in Leicester and what types of fast food are available in Leicester. The film features the KFC on High Street, Burger King on Granby Street, the Fish and Chip Shop on Granby Street and the McDonalds next to the shires shopping centre before it became High Cross. Watch here »