Taylor Nuttall

Located in South West Scotland on a rural smallholding. Posts are work in progress updates and general musings about sound, music and art. Taylor Nuttall is a composer, artist and sound designer. His work is often a hybrid of influences usually incorporating found sounds. Taylor trained as a visual artist including paint, sculpture, photography, installation and digital media. Recently Taylor has been focussed on live improvisation producing ambient electronica and generative sound design.

https://www.taylornuttall.com

Summer time baling

July 7, 2026•126 words

I make it a personal goal to be making music everyday. This can take many forms ranging from actually picking up a physical music instrument, to messing with modular patches using VCV rack or MiRack, to making and sampling field audio recordings, to composing new work with Ableton Live and various iPad tools and more recently Live Coding. I also run a smallholding with sheep, a small allotment and orchard. At this point in the year I am getting anxious about haymaking. Keeping an eye on the we...

Live Coding

July 3, 2026•232 words

It's been a long time coming. I first explored live coding several years ago, but it was never more than just following curiosity to see where it would go. A couple more failed attempts to do something interesting with it came and went. Mainly other projects and life getting in the way. So it feels like a new adventure to restart the journey into live coding once more. There are several web browser based live coding platforms, but I find the idea of running the code directly on my own computer ...

Sonic Labs

June 30, 2026•97 words

This weekend is a first time for the Sonic Labs group to come to my studio for an improv / jam session. I will be continuing my exploration of Live Coding using Tidal Cycles. More on this soon. Sonic Labs began at the Stove in Dumfries around 4 years ago with monthly get together usually lasting a couple of hours and featuring a range of activities including presentations and workshop sessions. But mainly local musicians looking to challenge themselves and play in an informal group setting. S...

Keyboard problems solved

June 25, 2026•80 words

New keyboard - yay. Well a second hand - given a new life :-) This is going to make everything so much easier. 1) I can now type directly on my iPad. 2) I now have full mac keyboard shortcuts when using my IMac music software and in particular with Live Coding. No more copying and pasting because I can’t find the # and the \ via my windows keyboard. Haha. Thanks so much to a generous neighbour :-) firstworldproblems ...

Lo Poly Racer

June 18, 2026•219 words

I’m embarking on a new slow burn project developing audio to compliment an interactive and real time visual representation of the route and terrain generated by a cycle trainer. The project is called Lo Poly Racer It is an open-world cycling simulator using software running on a Raspberry Pi. See: https://www.dhp11.com/docs/p005/ The software Raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library primarily employed to create and enjoy videogames programming. See: https://www.raylib.com/ The challenge wil...

This is not a simulation?

May 24, 2026•380 words

The working title of a new 7 minute track - This is not a simulation?’ - raises the question what is real, am I dreaming, are we in an alternate reality? For the Cities and Memory Spring Project I found myself drawn to an audio recording made on the platform of the Gare Du Nord in Paris. Interestingly a key feature of the recording is some fake birdsong perhaps being piped over loudspeakers onto the platform whilst everyday passengers are milling about and passing through the station. I wonder...

Cities & Memory

May 22, 2026•150 words

This year I have become involved with an amazing project Cities & Memory. I will be releasing a new piece of work very shortly based on sounds recorded at Nord De Gare Railway Station, Paris that includes some fake birdsong piped onto one of the platforms. Cities and Memory brings together the worlds of field recording, sound art and composition to create a new form of listening. The project is founded around the concept of working creatively with sound to explore concepts of place and mem...

Reveil 13 Live

May 2, 2026•16 words

reveil is now live and broadcasing worldwide dawnchorus audio streams for the next 24 hours https://soundtent.org/reveil/#/ ...

Bird observations April 2026

April 13, 2026•222 words

In the run up to Reveil 13, on the 2nd May 2026, I am keeping a log of the birds that I am observing around the property. Listen live to the Reveil audio stream at http://locus.creacast.com:9001/dumfries_and_galloway_loch_patrick.mp3 Using the Marlin Bird ID App to aid me I have observed the following: Bank Swallow (Sand Martin) 04/04 Barnacle Goose 08/04 Barn Owl 07/04 Barn Swallow 10/04 Blackbird Blackcap 06/04 Black Headed Gull Blue Tit Buzzard 06/04 Canada Goose 04/04 Carrion Crow Chaffin...

Transition to PeerTube

April 11, 2026•100 words

I'm now making the transition to PeerTube and away from that other place. I will be adding new videos shortly. There will be two channels. One focusing on music, improvisation, audio recording and sound art. The other focussing on biodiversity, sustainability and all things environment. First up is a short compilation of documentary material from the Constellations Of Us installation shown as part of Lightwaves Salford, December 2025. This includes a sample of the immersive soundscape that I ...

Bird observations April 2026

April 2, 2026•200 words

In the run up to Reveil 13, on the 2nd May 2026, I am keeping a log of the birds that I am observing around the property. Using the Marlin Bird ID App to aid me I have observed the following: Barnacle Goose 08/04 Barn Owl 07/04 Blackbird Blackcap 06/04 Black Headed Gull Blue Tit Buzzard 06/04 Canada Goose 04/04 Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Coal Tit Collared Dove Coot Curlew 10/04 Dunnock Goldfinch Great Black-backed Gull 07/04 Greater Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Greenfinch Green Winged T...

Reveil 13 2026

March 30, 2026•285 words

Coming soon…. I am vary happy to be participating again in this year’s Reveil 24hr global broadcast. In its 13th edition. Streaming the sounds of the worlds dawn chorus from a diverse range of points around the Earth. It seems particularly resonant as international uncertainties prevail. The project simply uses live sound recordings worldwide to simultaneously emphasise the vulnerability of the natural world and also present the many different cultures that make up humanity. My first involveme...

AI generated music gaining traction

January 18, 2026•201 words

Some disappointing but not unexpected results from this survey including the fact that the vast majority of end users may be unaware that they are listening to AI generated music, being unable to tell the difference! Deezer has also recently revealed that around 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded to its own platform every day, and that this accounts for approximately 34% of all daily uploads. https://newsroom-deezer.com/2025/11/deezer-ipsos-survey-ai-music/ As a counter to this...

Carl Sagan Audio Sample

December 14, 2025•268 words

In the preparatory research for developing the soundscape for the immersive installation Constellations Of Us I have been considering the writings of Carl Sagan. Emma, as principal artist for the project, had already compiled extracts from the book Cosmos for example: ‘ Science has revealed to us a universe so ancient and so vast that human affairs seem at first sight to be of little consequence.’ Carl Sagan was an American astronomer and science writer. He achieved widespread public notoriety...

Bandcamp Friday

December 5, 2025•123 words

There's always a lot of noise on Bandcamp Friday as so many independent musicians and bands listed on the platform seek to promote their music. Bandcamp describe themselves as an online record store and music community where passionate fans discover, connect with, and directly support the artists they love. On Bandcamp Friday the company waives all of their revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels - benefitting independent musicians and composers like myself. Most wor...

Website update

December 3, 2025•53 words

I have been making a few structural changes to the navigation functions of the website. A new search function has been added. The ability to move forwards and backwards between news postings has been added. Redundant pages have been archived. I am working on content categories :-) Any constructive feedback is always welcome. ...

Envelop4Live

December 1, 2025•424 words

Envelop4Live is a set of tools developed in Max for managing ambisonics within Ableton Live. I have been using these tools within the sound design and composition for the soundscape that I have produced for Constellations of Us. https://envelop.us/page/tools These tools are useful for developing immersive sound with 16 channel ambisonics. Ambisonics are a full 360 degree sound field construct and are speaker layout independent. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics for further detail. ...

Immersive Soundscape

November 20, 2025•155 words

Sitting listening to my immersive soundscape playing through a 6 channel setup 5.1 surround sound. Hopefully I will have developed this enough for a 12 channel set up using a 7.1.4 surround system. Feels very calming, with a gentle waves motion and generative modular sounds sweeping throughout, moving on to a more sombre section evoking whale song and creaking sea ice. Some earlier composition notes: Visual starscape controlled by time and will evolve according to natural constellations behav...

First subscriber

November 18, 2025•49 words

Yay, my first Wordpress Blog subscriber. Thank you Graham Dunning - see http://grahamdunning.com/ It's easy to subscribe with your e-mail address. There is no need to register with Wordpress. There is something very satisfying about going back to a good old website and saying no to corporate internet takeover. ...

Website

November 16, 2025•80 words

I've reset my website at taylornuttall.com As part of drive to move away from Facebook, the intention is to regularly update things via a more traditional website and blog instead and share the website directly on other non Meta owned platforms. I have an account on both Mastodon and Bluesky where there is a lot more useful activity than I'm finding on Facebook. https://mastodon.scot/@digitaylor https://bsky.app/profile/digitaylor.bsky.social Instagram still serves a useful purpose, so for...

Lightwaves

November 13, 2025•57 words

Lightwaves project is nearing completion. Due to be featured as part of Lightwaves Salford from Thursday 4th December to Sunday 7th December. Opening times from 4pm to 10pm. It’s been a big learning curve understanding immersive audio and using the Envelop4Live tools in Ableton Live. We’re using a 7.1.4 surround sound setup and a Dante audio interface. ...

New Blog Test

November 8, 2025•31 words

Test first blog post. Ok limited to plain text. What about URL’s? https://www.soundcloud.com/taylornuttall This is a link to my work published on SoundCloud, enjoy! So, they work! More to come soon. ...