Here are published texts relating to my artistic practice and research.

UPIC Ludique: Reimagining Xenakis’s UPIC as a Toy for Drawing Sound.

Blackmore, Simon. “UPIC Ludique: Reimagining Xenakis’s UPIC as a Toy for Drawing Sound.” ECHO, no. 8 (September 7, 2026).
https://doi.org/10.47041/HSDI2354

Drawing Sound: From 20th-Century Experiments to L’UPIC Ludique

Blackmore, Simon. “Drawing Sound: From 20th-Century Experiments to L’UPIC Ludique.” Arts 15, no. 6 (2026): 125.
https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15060125.

L’UPIC Ludique

Blackmore, S. (2025). L’UPIC Ludique. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 102–103.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15028075

Playing Code: Interacting with computers through rhythm

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy awarded by Oxford Brookes University
Submitted for examination September 2020
PhD Playing Code

Data Transmission as Musical Performance

Simon Blackmore. (2018, July 4). Data Transmission as Musical Performance. 15th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2018), Limassol, Cyprus.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1422647