Dear Justin,
I'm afraid this is for someone applying to undertake a new doctorate at Durham, and not random funding for an existing one at a different institution, however worthy : )
best
Nick
On 11 Oct 2015, at 22:32, Justin Northrop <justinorthrop_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Would they be interested in funding my project? I'm currently a computer
> science PhD student at Georgia Tech.
>
> I'm building a livecoding enabled visual language currently called
> TanScript (tangible script).
>
> In TanScript, a 'head' walks along a program and executes each instruction
> that it touches. A program is a directed graph of instructions, which the
> programmer can drag around in order to make them readable and beautiful.
>
> Instructions can play music.
>
> Musical programs themselves are a form of score. The score is a program
> that executes as a head walks along it.
>
> One can build interactive soundscapes by leaving some choices to the
> listener. If the listener wants, she can modify the choices that are made
> at some locations in an interactive soundscape, similarly to how junctions
> on a railroad track can be toggled left and right at any time during the
> track's operation.
>
> I'm currently most focused on applying TanScript to GUI design and language
> editing and navigation. The language editing and navigation is mainly
> focused on editing generalizations of text (where text is a list of rows of
> symbols), and on editing TanScript programs (including musical ones).
>
> I'm also working under the constraint that everything in the TanScript IDE
> should be usable without a monitor (or by a blind person). Even non-musical
> programs can be sonified, so that it is possible to efficiently browse them
> without the aid of vision.
>
> More info can be found here:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Mneumonese/comments/3mbgmi/tanscript_as_a_musical_language/
>
> - Justin
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Nick Collins <clicksonnil_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In case of interest, a possibility for funded visual culture related
>> doctoral work at Durham; live coding and audiovisuals might provide
>> interesting angles to secure one of these scholarships (I'd be happy to be
>> involved as a supervisor, though I'd imagine a supervision team would take
>> in the visual cultures people too). From past experience, you'd need a
>> strong academic background and a stand out research proposal if you wanted
>> to pursue this; happy to discuss off list if anyone was very keen.
>>
>> https://www.dur.ac.uk/cvac/postgraduatestudy/visualscholarships/apply/
>>
>> (UK and EU but not non-EU international, fees + living allowance)
>>
>> best,
>> N
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