Writing | Nicholas Brown — British Composer

A low island viewed across calm water beneath an overcast sky, photographed from a ferry

Jul 13, 2026

The Closeness of Distance

A horizontal abstract artwork composed of vertical stripes in varying widths and tones of grey, ranging from pale silver on the left to near-black on the right

Jun 19, 2026

A Different Interface

Motion study (mixed media) from The Soul Finds Rest in Unity (2007) by Nicholas Brown

Jan 4, 2026

Composing from Within

A horizontal abstract artwork composed of vertical stripes in varying widths and tones of grey, ranging from pale silver on the left to near-black on the right

Jun 23, 2025

Composing Beyond the Screen

A pencil drawing of a shallow rectangular wooden tray viewed in perspective, containing a diagonal wooden batten and a small ball near one end, signed with initials in the lower right corner

Jun 3, 2025

The Problem of Beginning

Max/MSP patch showing bach.transcribe, cage.noterandom, and metro objects alongside generated staff notation

Apr 13, 2024

Getting Started with Algorithmic Composition in Max

A flat-style digital illustration of a carved Halloween jack-o-lantern with triangular eyes, a triangular nose, and a jagged grinning mouth, on a white background

Nov 11, 2023

The Point is to Be Noticed

p5.js sketch with a volume slider above two coloured rectangles, blue and olive green

Oct 12, 2023

Build a Browser Synth with p5.js

Illustrated cartoon bird singing on a branch with a sun in the background

May 27, 2023

How to Manipulate Sound in the Browser with p5.js

Audio waveform visualisation showing a transient sound pulse

May 4, 2023

Play a Sound in the Browser with p5.js

Code editor showing HTML boilerplate with p5.js script tags

Apr 25, 2023

Getting Started with Sound in p5.js

The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb panel from the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck: a vast crowd of robed figures converging on a central altar bearing a lamb, with a dove descending above and a Gothic city visible on the horizon

Jan 17, 2022

Sonoptics & Augmented Reality

Cover of Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice, with a medieval manuscript illustration

Dec 17, 2021

The Composer's Domain: Method and Material

Cover of Experience / Music / Experiment: Pragmatism and Artistic Research, edited by William Brooks

Aug 23, 2021

Game-show; or The Playful Work of the Voice

Abstract network diagram showing multicoloured nodes connected by lines in a circular arrangement

Oct 26, 2020

On Networked Performance - A Provocation

Cover of Music and Sound in Silent Film, Routledge, showing silhouettes of a pianist and conductor

Dec 13, 2018

Electroacoustic Composition and Silent Film

Cover of Artistic Experimentation in Music: An Anthology, Orpheus Institute series

Jan 1, 2014

Composing as a Way of Doing Philosophy

Three white sheep standing and lying in dappled sunlight at the base of large dark curved bronze sculpture forms, on closely cropped grass

Jan 1, 2013

Drawing and the Third Dimension

Nicolas Poussin's painting Et in Arcadia Ego (c.1637–38): three male figures and a woman in classical dress gathered around a stone tomb, one man tracing an inscription with his finger

Jan 1, 2013

How to Keep a Villa in Arcadia

A wide flat coastal marsh landscape under a pale blue sky, with dried seed heads of cow parsley in the foreground and a distant low shoreline on the horizon

Jan 1, 2012

Robert Wilson's 'Walking'

Cover of Organised Sound journal, Vol. 16 Issue 2: Performance Ecosystems

Jan 1, 2011

Being Among the Living - On the Relationship between Performers and Environment in As I Have Now Memoyre.

A traditional Punch and Judy puppet show booth with red and white striped front, showing Mr Punch in red costume and a female puppet facing each other on the ledge, with a painted decorative arch above

Jan 1, 2008

By the Magician's Hand

Cover of Contemporary Music Review: Bodily Instruments and Instrumental Bodies, Vol. 25

Mar 1, 2006

The Flux Between Sounding and Sound - Towards a Relational Understanding of Music as Embodied Action

Dissertation title page: Music as Embodied Action, Nicholas Brown doctoral thesis, Oxford University, 2006

Feb 1, 2006

Music as Embodied Action

Dissertation title page: The Death of the Composer — Interaction between media in the Greenaway/Andriessen opera, ROSA

Jan 1, 2006

The Death of the Composer: Interaction between media in the Greenaway/Andriessen opera, ROSA