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In the autumn of 1998 John Eacott performed his first live generative composition in London, UK. He developed his generative composition in two Sound Art exhibitions at Morley
Gallery, London, 'Strange Attraction' in 1999 and 'Another Strange Attraction' in 2000 which featured amongst others the
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is also the home for a
Floodtide sound sculpture (2014) by Andrew Baldwin, that continuously plays live local tidal readings. In 2015 John Eacott took the Floodtide project on a five months tour on Jacomina, a 46 ft sailing yacht, performing the piece in ports in Europe and UK with local
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In 2001 Eacott made a generative music album 'Morpheus' together with Nick
Collins, Frederik Oloffson and others using SuperCollider audio programming environment. These compositions formed part of a number of projects that contributed to his PhD 'Contents May Vary: the behaviour and play of
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in 2010 and the Mayor's Thames
Festival in 2009. A permanent tidal sensor (provided by Nortek) is installed at Trinity Buoy Wharf which gives a constant reading of Thames tidal data on the Floodtide website. Musicians anywhere in the world can play the music generated at any time.
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