Guardian Multimedia: Integrating audio and video to AS3

Guardian Multimedia

Ported the Guardian's audio, video and slideshow widgets to AS3. Integrated Omniture analytics logging. Worked with Brightcove to build a custom player able to display video and ad content at multiple resolutions across the Guardian site. Helped the Java team incorporate versioned SWF artifacts into their main build process using Ant, Maven and SVN.

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In rainbows: Colourful music visualisation

Rainbow visualizer inspired by seventies SF

Here's an attempt to make an unusual music visualiser, inspired by seventies cartoon colours.

I guess my main motivation was trying to avoid all those black background, BitmapFilter feedback, spectrographic cliches. After several months in SF, what better than a few rainbows?

The code is over here, in case you fancy a nose around.

The Folk Songs Project: Exploring cultural identity through sound

Cinco Cidades

Co-founded a project exploring themes of cultural identity by mapping the sounds of New York, Manchester and five Portuguese cities. This work combined a Flash client with a MySQL database and a custom MP3 streaming engine. It was featured in TimeOut, the Guardian newspaper and BBC Radio and won several prizes and festival commissions.

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