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I make interactive aural analysis apps for Radiohead's music. The term is Michael Clarke's: software that lets you 'interact with the musical materials and the methods used to create them' (Clarke 2012). Clarke developed it for electroacoustic music; I take it out to the art-rock edge of popular music.

Why this way? Because it's how popular musicians actually learn. Lucy Green found that their main way in is not books or lessons but learning 'to copy recordings by ear' (Green 2002: 61): you listen, you try it, you get it wrong, you try again. Yet writing about how popular music works still mostly comes as prose and notation. My apps turn the analysis back into something you do with the record. You learn what Radiohead are doing by doing it yourself.

I build the apps by vibe coding with the AI assistant Claude. They are the artefacts of my PhD at Durham, Vibe Coding for Interactive Aural Analysis of Radiohead's Music.

PhD researcher, Music · Durham University

Clarke, M. (2012) 'Analysing Electroacoustic Music: An Interactive Aural Approach', Music Analysis, 31(3), pp. 347–380.
Green, L. (2002) How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education. Aldershot: Ashgate.

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NO.001

The National Anthem

be Jonny on SNL
NO.002

Let Down

program the Spectrum
NO.003

Creep

be Jonny, ruin it
NO.004

Everything In Its Right Place

cut Thom up
NO.005

Videotape

feel the syncopation
NO.006

Fitter Happier

Bitter, Happier · write your own list
NO.007

Myxomatosis

Myx: bassline · move the 3s and 2s
NO.008

Myxomatosis

Myx: swing · find Phil's swing
NO.009

Idioteque

mild und leise · a small taste of how Lansky made sound in 1973
NO.010

Morning Mr Magpie

where is one?