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Dr Joseph Manghan

Web Developer | Front-End


Music & Web Science PhD graduate from the University of Southampton

I am a futurist, technophile, composer and musician. My PhD explored outsourcing compositional tasks to crowds, and I am keen to continue exploring this interest in roles that focus on engagement and communication within modes relevant to the digital age.


Junior Frontend Engineer with Backbase

Trained in web development by Pitman Training | The Tech Academy. Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap and Git.

Based in Cardiff, Wales.

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PhD Thesis

Crowd-composition: Exploring the Qualities of Collective Creativity

'Crowd-composition' is the practice of outsourcing a creative task to a crowd, leading to a new musical composition that is assembled and shaped by collective input. This project aimed to consolidate, add to and develop the field, leading to a series of original works which utilised voting techniques as the primary mechanism for collective decision-making.

A selection of these works is presented below.

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CrowdComp was a Web-based work in which 50 participants voted in daily polls, with majority vote determining the pitch and duration for each note in this 16-bar melody.

It Wasn't All Yellow is an interactive workshop where an extract of Yellow by Coldplay is transformed through the votes of an audience. Below is the final result of a performance from February 2019.

ElectroQuiz invites an audience to vote to create electronic music. Its engine is built on a string of probabilistic music generators which produce a continuous, generative music, able to to be edited in real-time. The audience manipulate parameters within these generators to gradually create four textural layers.

The accompanying video is a recording of an ElectroQuiz performance commissioned by the SÓN orchestra, at the John Hansard Gallery.

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