# robgodman ## Posts - [Music for Clarinet and Electronics](https://robgodman.co.uk/music-for-clarinet-and-electronics/): Anarchy in the Organism (Eb Clarinet) Hymn (10 days lost forever) Toggle and Pulse Dances - [Plenum](https://robgodman.co.uk/plenum/): Simeon Nelson : Rob Godman : Nick Rothwell Plenum is a computer generated architectural light projection conceived and developed by the internationally acclaimed artist Simeon Nelson in collaboration with myself and computer scientist/artist Nick Rothwell. The team received major EU funding (Artichoke Trust). Plenum has been shown at three world-leading international light festivals in the UK and Europe, has been projected onto the world’s most significant buildings (including the iconic King’s College Chapel, Cambridge and Tallinna Raekoda, Tallinn, Estonia) and inside the KickArts Contemporary Arts Gallery, Cairns, Australia. Intended as a large-scale public-art work, it runs on a 15-minute loop whereby the light […] - [ArtSci](https://robgodman.co.uk/artsci/): Much of my work explores the relationship between art and science. I am a founder member of the Art:Sci Lab at the University of Hertfordshire. Formed in 2021 to lead on research in the domain of art and science collaboration, its remit is to reassert art as a knowledge forming discipline in its own right and in doing so, take a leading role in art / science collaborations. The Art:Sci Research Lab seeks to find ways in which a meaningful co-creation can be achieved, equitably between disciplines. https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/groups-and-units/art-sci-lab-research Echiea and Vitruvius Pendula Sound visualisations and historical physics related to waves […] - [Hello world!](https://robgodman.co.uk/hello-world-2/): Welcome to Astra Starter Templates. This is your first post. 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The piece has a quiet, intriguing presence, tempered by slight feelings of menace of such a weight of glass suspended so lightly. Solid  is derived from sounds of glass, digitally dismantled into tiny constituent parts (known as sonic grains) and reconstructed into a self-generative and ever-evolving piece of music, which has a haunting resemblance to […] - [Early Morning Wren](https://robgodman.co.uk/early-morning-wren/): ‘One Island – Many Visions’ was a curated exhibition of Portlands landscape legacy with symposium and programme of workshop /events developed over 18 months in partnership with 27 artists from the Royal Society of Sculptors  and Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust.  The exhibition ran from 06 September to 31 October 2025 and included a two day Symposium  Sat 27 / Sun 28 September, focusing on environment and art. ‘Early Morning Wren’ – a collaboration between glassmaker Colin Reid and Rob Godman (UH Music) with acoustic consultation by Rob Phillips (UH Music) The glass sculpture ‘Early Morning Wren’ combines textures cast from Tout Quarry rocks […] - [Works of William O Smith](https://robgodman.co.uk/works-of-william-o-smith/): Knowledge Exchange at Stapleford Granary This knowledge exchange places composer / sound artist Rob Godman within Stapleford Granary Arts Centre, working with CEO / clarinettist Dr Kate Romano. Together, they will decipher, analyse and interpret a body of little-known, unpublished music for clarinet and electronics composed in the pre-digital 1970-80s by American pioneer William O Smith (1929 – 2000). We seek to create and disseminate new performance materials for Smith’s obsolete music, opening up a ‘dead spot’ in the repertoire. We will bring this neglected repertoire into historical performance discourse, whilst asking the question: to what extent is it possible […] - [Sound Visualisations](https://robgodman.co.uk/sound-visualisations/): Faraday Waves - [Everyday Tic’s](https://robgodman.co.uk/everyday-tics/): Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a disorder characterised by involuntary, repetitive and non-rhythmic motor and vocal tics. There exists a problematic representation of the disorder in the mainstream media that tends to the formulaic sensationalism portrayed by recent TV documentaries. This prevalent image of TS may have a detrimental effect on public service provisions (education, health, in the absence of NICE guidelines etc). In 2024, a group of collaborators bringing together lived experience, the arts and psychology came together to explore the shared question – what does a typical day, for an adult living with Tourette’s, look and sound like? Together, […] - [Electroacoustic](https://robgodman.co.uk/electroacoustic/): The Dress TT Recordings available on UH Record Label 2006 eye speak Recording available on En Red O 2000-Electric Songs compilation CD. VIII Simposio de Musica Electoacustica  Fly Wheel Fantasy Recording available on This Music is Silent Until You Listen Discus 6CD - [Music for Ensembles and Individual Instruments](https://robgodman.co.uk/music-for-ensembles/): Abigail’s Party – for String Quartet Abigail’s Video Diary – for Wind Orchestra Abigail – the Sequels! – for Solo Piano - [Music for Choir and Electronics](https://robgodman.co.uk/music-for-choir-and-electronics/): if there are any heavens my mother will – for SATB Choir and electroacoustic sound thing no is(of  – for SATB Choir and electroacoustic sound for Philip Mead and the St Augustine’s Singers, Cambridge - [Music for Clarinet and Electronics](https://robgodman.co.uk/music-for-clarinet-and-electronics/): Anarchy in the Organism – for Eb Clarinet Toggle and Pulse Dances – for Eb Clarinet Hymn (10 days lost forever) - [Music for Piano and Electronics](https://robgodman.co.uk/music-for-piano-and-electronics/): Duel – for piano and responsive electronics Commissioned by Philip Mead with funds provided by the Arts Council of England Halo – for piano and responsive electronics - [Music with Narrative](https://robgodman.co.uk/music-with-narrative/): Tiny Stories CMPFR.22C Bowland Beth Alyona – Poetry, Hip-Hop and Immersive Sound - [CMPFR.22C - Stories from the 22nd Century Campfire](https://robgodman.co.uk/cmpfr-22c-stories-from-the-22nd-century-campfire/): Decade 6: Words: Emma ShaferVoices: Lennox Helmeid and Emma ShaferSound: Rob Godman Produced by: Aiken Muller, AJ Lindner , Amber Cortes, Brad Muller, Clayton Kinney, David Halsell, James Wenlock A project of: REALMOREREALCMPFR.22c is a collaborative storytelling project of speculative fiction, an episodic future history crossing genres and generations — stories told around the campfire where humans have gathered over thousands of years to share our experience, our wisdom, our hopes, and our fears. CMPFR.22c brings together storytellers, actors, artists, and sound artists-designers around a “sonic campfire” to create a collection of stories imagining the decades of the 22nd century. […] - [Tiny Stories](https://robgodman.co.uk/tiny-stories/): During the Covid period, like many time-based artists, I was asked to create new content for an online audience, largely to replace live gigs. My colleague Kate Romano is a regular presenter on the BBC fronting  the long-running Radio 3 series Time Traveller and Our Classical Century . Litchfield Festival commissioned us to create Tiny Stories – ‘little collages of music-and-spoken-word are all less than 5 minutes long and form a wünderkammer of curiosities…. ghost trains, snowglobes, clocks, electricity pylons, ships in bottles, an extraordinary feminist icon …and conclude with a reflection on the strange and silent times in which we find ourselves.’ - [Music for Brass](https://robgodman.co.uk/music-for-brass/): Sexy Bass Lines for Bass Trombone These small studies were written, largely, to assist with getting my lip back in on the bass trombone! Each bass line is inspired by ‘ethnic’ rhythmic beats from around the world. They have been transformed in some way – by adding an irregular beat or two… Balkan Rhythm Method for Brass Band Three Balkan Tunes for Brass Quartet or Quintet Another Three Balkan Tunes for Brass Quartet or Quintet Ukranian Folk Tunes for Brass Quartet eye propose – for Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble and Electroacoustic Sound - [Art:Sci](https://robgodman.co.uk/artsci/): Much of my work explores the relationship between art and science. I am a founder member of the Art:Sci Lab at the University of Hertfordshire. Formed in 2021 to lead on research in the domain of art and science collaboration, its remit is to reassert art as a knowledge forming discipline in its own right and in doing so, take a leading role in art / science collaborations. The Art:Sci Research Lab seeks to find ways in which a meaningful co-creation can be achieved, equitably between disciplines. https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/groups-and-units/art-sci-lab-research Echiea and Vitruvius Pendula Sound visualisations and historical physics related to waves Droplets […] - [Stories of Unexpected Loss](https://robgodman.co.uk/stories-of-unexpected-loss/): Sam Jury : Asida Butba, SKLAD : Rob Godman Coming soon… - [Faraday Waves](https://robgodman.co.uk/faraday-waves/): Rob Godman : Professor Stephen Morris : Sam Jury Faraday Waves is a short audio-visual work written as a companion piece for a concert-hall performance of Poème électronique by Varese. Faraday discovered that a liquid undergoing vertical vibration, whose frequency exceeds a certain value, becomes unstable to surface waves. Also known as Faraday Instability, they form non-linear standing waves that appear on liquids enclosed by a vibrating vessel. In ordinary Newtonian fluids (those that do not exhibit shear thickening or shear thinning) the wave patterns include ones with 1-fold symmetry (stripes), 2-fold symmetry (squares), 3-fold symmetry (hexagons) as well as higher orders of […] - [Pulse](https://robgodman.co.uk/pulse/): Rob Godman : Dr. Giampaolo Martinelli Pulse is a series of high resolution unedited real-time audio recordings produced in St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, May 2022 to November 2024. A variety of procedures have been recorded, including thoraco abdominal aneurysm repairs and VT ablations (a means of correcting heart arrhythmia). Created in collaboration with Dr. Giampaolo Martinelli, Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist, the work focuses our attention on the ambient sound – room tone and associated noise, surgical paraphernalia and human interaction found within an operating theatre. By exploring repetition and variation, rhythm and further subdivisions of time over the micro and macro […] - [Plenum](https://robgodman.co.uk/plenum/): Simeon Nelson : Rob Godman : Nick Rothwell Plenum is a computer generated architectural light projection conceived and developed by the internationally acclaimed artist Simeon Nelson in collaboration with myself and computer scientist/artist Nick Rothwell. The team received major EU funding (Artichoke Trust). Plenum has been shown at three world-leading international light festivals in the UK and Europe, has been projected onto the world’s most significant buildings (including the iconic King’s College Chapel, Cambridge and Tallinna Raekoda, Tallinn, Estonia) and inside the KickArts Contemporary Arts Gallery, Cairns, Australia. Intended as a large-scale public-art work, it runs on a 15-minute loop whereby the light […] - [Droplets](https://robgodman.co.uk/droplets/): Droplets – with Professor in Digital Microfluidics Loïc Coudron and Sam Jury Using Electrowetting-Produced Audible and Near-Ultrasonic Waves for Water Sample Composition Analysis From a scientific and engineering perspective, this project opens new avenues to develop novel, non-destructive characterisation techniques employing audible or near-ultrasonic waves. The sonic waves, interacting with discrete volumes of fluid, can produce signature spectra that can be correlated with the fluid composition. Unlike traditional sonic-based characterisation methods, where the audio source is external to the object under test, the liquid will be the emitter by electrically induced oscillation.  Whilst ultrasound characterisation is well known for defect diagnostics, […] - [English Change Ringing Patterns](https://robgodman.co.uk/english-change-ringing-patterns/): Permutation. Permutate v.tr = PERMUTE. Permutation n. 1. an ordered arrangement or grouping of a set of numbers, items, etc. 2. any combination or selection of a specified number of things from a larger group. Permute v.tr alter the sequence or arrangement of (from Latin permutare ‘to change thoroughly’) Terminology Element – in English Change Ringing patterns the elements of a four-bell peel would be 1, 2, 3 and 4. Group – all available permutations (also known as a peal and extent in English Change Ringing terminology).  For instance, in a four-bell peal, there would be twenty-four listed permutations. Set – […] - [Bowland Beth](https://robgodman.co.uk/bowland-beth/): Bowland Beth (2023) is a short film in collaboration with choreographer Catherine Seymour and film maker Vidda Lefeber, inspired by the poem ‘Bowland Beth’ by David Harsent. It has a score composed by myself and danced by Zoe Arshamian. The poem is an elegy to Beth, a Hen Harrier born and tagged on the wild moors of the Forest Bowland in Lancashire and illegally shot before she could breed. Showings have taken place at Exeter International Film Festival, Skydancer, Harbour House Arts Centre and Fish Eye Film Festival Documentary of the project – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z905uPWe7EU - [Echiea](https://robgodman.co.uk/echiea/): The clarity of sound within any Greek or Roman theatre (without any form of enhancement) is impressive to any visitor. The seats arranged in curved rows around the circular orchestra form large horizontal reflecting surfaces. This ensures that the path of the sound waves travel from the source (the actor or singer) to each of the listeners in a direct path (i.e. without reflection). Vitruvius, however, claimed further enhancements could be made. “In theatres, also, are copper vases and these are placed in chambers under the rows of seats in accordance with mathematical reckoning. The Greeks call them Echeia. The […] - [What's on now and later?](https://robgodman.co.uk/whats-on-now/): Early Morning Wren – a collaboration between glassmaker Colin Reid, Stroud Sensation Sculpture Exhibition, Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, Stroud 13th June to 29th August 2026 Pulse Dances – Kate Romano (Eb Clarinet) and Pulse Installation – Sam Jury (film), Muse meets Medicine, Festival of Arts and Human Dimension in Healthcare, The Great Hall, St Bartholomew Hospital, London 16th to 17th March 2026 - [Newtonian Physics](https://robgodman.co.uk/newtonian-physics/): Pendula pendulum, body suspended from a fixed point so that it can swing back and forth under the influence of gravity. Pendulums are used to regulate the movement of clocks because the interval of time for each complete oscillation, called the period, is constant. The formula for the period T of a pendulum is T = 2π Square root of√L/g, where L is the length of the pendulum and g is the acceleration due to gravity. https://www.britannica.com/technology/pendulum It has become increasingly common to use physics models in coding. Partly to get away from the tyranny of the single regulated clock in DAWs, I have been exploring the periodic nature of multiple pendula when […] - [Kate Romano and Stapleford Granary](https://robgodman.co.uk/kate-romano-and-stapleford-granary/): Works of William O Smith The Tin Forest Tiny Stories Anarchy in the Organism Ritual in Transfigured Time - [Blogs and Podcasts](https://robgodman.co.uk/blogs-and-podcasts/) - [Field Recording](https://robgodman.co.uk/field-recording/): I suspect like many, when the Covid lockdown hit, I experienced a noticeable change in our sonic environment. Opening my front door, on a bright sunny Spring morning, it became clear something was missing from our world – the sound of mechanisation. At that point, a slight obsession began, something that has stayed with me – the wish and enjoyment to capture sound worlds that are usually hidden or invisible to the eye or ear. Whilst I’ve sporadically used field recordings in various projects over the past twenty years, using them entirely in complete works is a new departure. 600 […] - [Music](https://robgodman.co.uk/music/): Scores and Recorded Media Please contact Rob Godman for full performance versions. These scores are © Rob Godman Music for Piano and Electronics Music for Clarinet and Electronics Music for Choir and Electronics Electroacoustic Music with Narrative Music for Ensembles Music for Brass - [Installations](https://robgodman.co.uk/installations/): Pulse Early Morning Wren 600 Pieces of Landscape Audio Installation for Shure UK Cosmoscope  Anarchy in the Organism  Hydrosiren Plenum  My Bike, My Bell… The Dark Inside the Eye of Silence Solid/Ephemeral Cube Crossing Borders Audio Installation for Year of the Artist …so where did it all go? The birds of bird island Cycle Sound System Nova Sound System - [Films](https://robgodman.co.uk/installations-and-films/): Stories of Unexpected Loss This you must remember To Be Here Bowland Beth  A response to IXEK 7-1 (Dora Maurer) noonwraith blues  Uchronia No. 1  Faraday Waves  Popehelm Batum  - [Scores](https://robgodman.co.uk/downloads/): Extracts of scores will be found here… - [Code](https://robgodman.co.uk/code/): Software will be found here, but in the mean time… 12_ScafellPikeLittleSurpriseMaximus 5_SparkyTreble π to 9895 places… Max RNBO Coming Soon… - [Research](https://robgodman.co.uk/research/): Music, Sound and Science Field Recording Kate Romano Projects English Change Ringing Patterns Music in education pre-HE Interdisciplinary studies Teaching in HE MaxMSP - [Contact](https://robgodman.co.uk/contact/): Contact Me​ - [About Me](https://robgodman.co.uk/about-me/) - [Home](https://robgodman.co.uk/): Rob Godman Composer and Sound Artist As well as his concert hall and gallery pieces, Rob has worked on large-scale public art projects, projecting sound and light onto many of the world’s most iconic buildings throughout Europe and Australia.  The relationship between art and science, interdisciplinary methods and spatial properties of sound are also pivotal. Future-proofing ‘old tech’, making it performable, and bringing these works to a new audience has become central to his arts practice. He has a passionate interest in how sound behaves acoustically and has developed many techniques for controlling and building virtual spaces for use within live performance and installation.  Welcome To My […] - [My account](https://robgodman.co.uk/my-account/) - [Checkout](https://robgodman.co.uk/checkout/) - [Cart](https://robgodman.co.uk/cart/) ## Products - [Flower Bed](https://robgodman.co.uk/product/flower-bed/): Quisque volutpat mattis am. 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