Mar 22: UCL and Trance

An interesting post on the UCL blog about the work of Professor Andrew Hudson Smith of CASA.

He has recently co-authored a book called Cities in the Metaverse, which tracks how digital technology is transforming the way we think about cities. 

The album, Place and Space, is an accompanying piece which functions as a fun way into the timely subject matter. Heavy on synthesisers, arpeggiators and four-to-the-floor kick drum, it’s the sort of euphoric trance many would sooner associate with a festival than a lecture theatre.

It was made using the tool SUNO, which has appeared elsewhere on the blog.

The lyrics are all his own...

One of the other co-authors of the book that inspired the album is Duncan Wilson, also of UCL. I worked with Duncan and other organisations on a project called DISTANCE some years ago. I was working with Helen Leigh and other colleagues at Explorer HQ on a project exploring the Internet of Things and how it could be taught in schools. This was back in 2013.