Welcome to the weird and wonderful website of Luke Child
Creative Technologist; Designer; Educator.
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I am Luke, known online as Cites and Sounds
Forged in the fires of noise and rainbows in the West Midlands, I travelled to Bristol to study music technology and then stayed to research accessible audio design for video games. I describe myself as a creative technologist with a penchant for game audio and accessibility. Here are some things I love: the band Biffy Clyro, Japanese whisky, Corgis, character creation menus, crunchy leaves and chocolate milk.
I do research
I am currently building Blind and low vision-accessible auditory navigation systems for open world video games. I'm actually a PhD student doing this, but I often procrastinate by building new websites.
I make music
I play and produce music as: Walking Billboards, Cosmic, Space Dad, Scrub, and Take Up Darts. If you're a fan of heartfelt indie hyperpop triphop midwest emo experimental lo-bit math metal then I might have something for you...
I consult in creative technology and accessibility
I have worked on projects such as with: Sony Interactive Entertainment' and their' Accessible Musical Instrument Hackathon, MiMU Gloves's Remote_CTRL artist residency and with Pytch and virtual production technology. I love working on projects. Give me all your cool projects. Om nom nom.
I provide top notch education
I have taught and supervised at: The University of the West of England and Luleå University. I mainly deliver awesome lectures and profound musings on audio programming, music, game audio, research methods and audio technology.
I sometimes document my work
There are only so many hours in the day. However, sometimes there are more hours in the day than usual. If so, you may find me uploading things to to my YouTube channel.
