Gary-Martin is a sound artist, designer, and electronic musician. He is interested in systems of production and consumption, and their ecological entanglement. Shaped by perspectives on new materialism, access-first design, and bad environmentalism, his social practice spans participatory art, critical making, and practice research.

For over a decade he has facilitated creative projects with young people across Wales, and partners like Cadw, The King's Trust, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Tate. He is a Pervasive Media Studio resident and a creative producer with pyka, where he develops interactive sound tools and experiences. He is also a lecturer in the school of creative arts at the University of Gloucestershire where he manages releases on Parkland Records and his teaching focuses on critical practice in relation to networked cultures and political ecology.

Gary-Martin was part of the MyWorld 'More Than AI' Sandbox where he worked with pyka in developing The Conductor for The Expression Orchestra; a suite of multi-sensory instruments that provide diverse access to shared musical expression. The Conductor is a custom programme that interprets performer interactions with the instruments, and adaptively translates these into musical outputs. The Conductor demonstrates the potential of Machine Intelligence to enhance creative expression by honouring performer intentions that would previously have gone unheard, offering an alternative to narratives of AI replacing human creativity. Gary-Martin led on the praxis of ethical data training and access-first design, and supported wider experience design. 

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