Listen to Emily Bick host Adventures In Sound And Music on Resonance FM. The show aired on 26 November 2015 and features tracks by Anna Homler & Steve Moshier, Ellen Fullman, This Heat, DJ Paypal, Tommy Tone and others.

Listen to the entirety of Ben Zimmerman's The Baltika Years album, released on Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never's Software label

If the world's only Tandy Deskmate computer music specialist Ben Zimmerman didn't exist, would nerds like Dan Lopatin have to invent him?

"Compositions based on data run the risk of sounding less interesting than the descriptions of the conceptual thought gone into their construction." Emily Bick journeys to the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research in Plymouth

Emily Bick feels the qualitative in the different approaches improvisors and composers take to the sonification of data sets

Composers who use crowdsourcing tools to generate musical material might be pushing technological boundaries, but this model of creative sharing is an illusion – and one that reinforces, rather than breaks down, hierarchies.