This is a collection of websites that I have coded. They are created using a combination of html, css, javascript and php.
Websites
davidpocknee.com (2019 - present)
http://www.davidpocknee.com
bun, preact.js, html, css
This website is designed to be as small and streamlined as possible, and relies on as few dependencies as possible to prolong its lifespan. It compiles using a custom build system that relies on bun rather than node. Preact.hs is preferred over react.js, as it is more lightweight (i.e. the javascript on the home page is reduced from 500kb to 50kb).
Brion Gysin's Permutation Poems (2019)
http://www.davidpocknee.com/gysin
react.js, html, css
This is a website that investigates the history and technology of the visual artist and writer Brion Gysin's Permutation Poems. Part of this project has involved collecting together historical permutation algorithms. These have been released as a JavaScript library and can be found on github and npm.
Between 1958 and 1982, Brion Gysin wrote a series of 43 Permutation Poems, in which the four or five-word title of the poem would be permutated into some or all of its possible orders. Some of these permutation poems were run through a computer, making them very early examples of computer-generated poetry. Prior scholarship on these poems has frequently failed to recognise that there are several different versions of each poem, which has led to an inaccurate dating of many of them, and a misunderstanding about the role of technology within all of them. Additionally - and probably most importantly - the failure of prior research to contextually situate this work within the history of early computing has led to an undervaluing of its technologically pioneering and progressive nature, as well as the significant difficulty that was overcome when producing this work in the mid 1960s. I attempt to correct these problems by providing the first accurate comprehensive chronology and bibliography of these works, along with an in-depth look at technical implementations of permutation algorithms in this era.
"Every" Composition Tool (2018)
http://davidpocknee.ricercata.org/every
react.js, webaudio, html, css, php
A tool designed to help compose my guitar piece "Every", by allowing the user to drag and drop all 319 chords in the piece into an order of their choice. A sythesized version of the re-ordered piece (algorithmically spliced together from samples) can then be played back by clicking the play and stop buttons in the bottom right of the window. The slider in the bottom left of the window can be used to choose the chord from which this playback starts. After the user has decided upon an order of chords that they like, it can be converted into musical notation in the liypond format by using the controls at the bottom of the window. This app was built with ReactJS and the webaudio API with a php backend.
Online version of my book "Self-Helplessness" (2017)
http://mtmn.ricercata.org/mtmn005-selfhelp-online
html, css, emacs lisp
An online version of my choose-your-own-adventure self-help book. The pages were algorithmically created using Emacs lisp.
Much Too Much Noise website (2015)
http://mtmn.ricercata.org
html, css
Website for the online publishing organization Much Too Much Noise. A simple, one-page website using just html and css.
@textscoreaday Online Calendar (2015)
http://aces.ricercata.org/textscoreaday/
html, css, javascript
Design by Ana Smaragda Lemnaru
An online calendar based upon tweets from the http://www.twitter.com/textscoreaday twitter account. This account was set up by a group of five composers and visual artists who posted an experimental text score to this twitter page every day for an entire year. The project started on October 12th 2012 and ended on October 12th 2013. This calendar automatically shows a different tweet from this project every day and the arrangement of date and text randomly changes each time the page is refreshed.
The New Fordist Organization website (2013)
http://nfo.ricercata.org
html, css, php, javascript
Design by Ana Smaragda Lemnaru
Website for the artist collective The New Fordist Organization providing information about the collective as well as presenting information and content about their 2013 residency at GEMAK gallery in The Hague.
The Institute of Applied Cultural Economics and Sociology website (2013)
http://www.aces.ricercata.org
html, css, php, javascript
Design by Ana Smaragda Lemnaru
Website for the independent research organization Institute of Applied Cultural Economics and Sociology.