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, chess, crunchy leaves, chocolate milk, list items beginning with the letter 'c'.

A thick pen-style drawing of Luke smiling to the camera wearing a Biffy Clyro t-shirt.

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. my current publications are:

Now We're Getting Somewhere - A First Prototype for a Co-Designed, Blind-accessible Auditory Navigation Toolkit for 3D Open-World Video Game Environments (Luke Child and Dr Natanya Ford)
- Publication on AES E-Library (requires a membership)
- HTML Pre-print hosted on my website
A systematic review of reverberation and accessibility for B/blind users in virtual environments (Luke Child, Dr Tom Mitchell and Dr Natanya Ford)
- Publication on AES E-Library (requires a membership)
- HTML Pre-print hosted on my website (coming soon)
Towards an audio attribute framework for understanding the perception of reverberant spaces through elicitation and clustering methods based on participant expectation (Luke Child and Dr Natanya Ford)
- Publication on AES E-Library (requires a membership)
- HTML Pre-print hosted on my website (coming soon)

A thick pen-style drawing of Luke stood in a power pose by a poster that reads 'accessibility + reverb = good times!'.

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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I am happy to recieve your communications

You can contact me via email, Instagram, BlueSky or LinkedIn. You can also add my Discord, if you'd like! I am 'CitesAndSounds' on there. Messenger pigeon, fax, or a loud shout from across the street are also accepted.

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Welcome to the weird and wonderful website of Luke Child