Audio Video / Software Creative
Long term associate of body>data>space, Nick is an internationally renowned software architect, programmer and sound designer. He was a Web/CMS Developer for Guardian Media Group, and has built performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt, Vienna Volksoper and Braunarts, and has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe).
He is currently working on choreographic visualisation tools for Wayne McGregor|Random Dance at the Wellcome Trust, music composition for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, and with Simeon Nelson and Rob Godman, having designed and programmed algorithmic physics animations for large-scale outdoor projection in Poland (Skyway Festival), Estonia (Valgus Festival, Tallinn) and Lumiere Durham.
As part of a recent body>data>space project, Nick collaborates with deaf choreographer Chisato Minamimura’s research into the exciting possibilities digital can offer for enhancing the experience of deaf audiences at dance performances by sound visualisation and haptic tools.
He has composed soundtracks for choreographers Aydin Teker (Istanbul) and Richard Siegal (Laban), and has performed with Laurie Booth (Dance Umbrella, New Territories), and at the Different Skies Festival (Arcosanti, Arizona), the ICA and the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.
Skills: Sound, Music, Video, Python, Clojure, Java, JavaScript, HTML, User Interface Design, Programming, Art, Video, PHP, CSS, Mercurial/Git.
Nick Rothwell
Nick’s musical works
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