Build practice
- Creative direction and prototyping
- Real-time graphics and spatial UI
- Interactive installation engineering
- Live show systems and control rooms
whoami
Rook
& Rill
Creative technologist / live experiences / useful oddities
- based
- Glasgow, UK
- status
- available for select builds
- focus
- code, rooms, sound, maps
- since
- 2012
I design and build interactive systems that sit between a screen and a crowd. Sometimes that means a stage, sometimes a museum, and sometimes one very stubborn browser tab.
$ cat experience.txt
Recent roles
- Technical director — Gatherworks
- Lead prototyper — Public Signal
- Creative developer — Northbank Lab
- Freelance systems designer
projects/
├── live/ stage systems + collective interfaces
├── field/ public installations + places
└── screen/ tools + networked stories
├── live/ stage systems + collective interfaces
├── field/ public installations + places
└── screen/ tools + networked stories
01 / lantern-room2026 :: LIVE
Lantern Room
A responsive light score for orchestra and audience, driven by breath, movement and the shifting density of the room.
open case study ↗02 / arena-atlas2025 :: LIVE
Arena Atlas
A venue-scale wayfinding and broadcast layer that turns arrival patterns into a living overhead map.
open case study ↗03 / meadow-radio2025 :: FIELD
Meadow Radio
A playful outdoor listening trail where tiny transmitters give local weather, insects and passers-by a shared frequency.
open case study ↗04 / tide-table2024 :: SCREEN
Tide Table
A collaborative forecasting story built from eyewitness accounts, speculative maps and a very slow cursor.
open case study ↗05 / choir-of-one2024 :: LIVE
Choir of One
An audience instrument that gathers hundreds of quiet recordings and releases them as a single evolving chorus.
open case study ↗06 / night-index2023 :: FIELD
Night Index
A nocturnal city guide built from light levels, open doors and places where people still talk after midnight.
open case study ↗07 / common-words2023 :: SCREEN
Common Words
A typographic atlas of the phrases communities use when they are trying to make a decision together.
open case study ↗08 / pocket-stage2022 :: SCREEN
Pocket Stage
A browser-based rehearsal room for performers working across time zones, kitchens and unreliable connections.
open case study ↗$ ./start-a-conversation
Have a room, a signal, or a peculiar problem?
Send the rough version. Early questions are usually the useful ones.
- email hello@rookandrill.studio
- signal available on request
- elsewhere Glasgow / remote
- response usually within 3 days