Scott Mc Laughlin is a composer based at the University of Huddersfield where he is currently working towards a PhD - Audible Processes and the Problems of Mapping - under the supervision of Bryn Harrison and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.

Most of my work is concerned with 'frequencial harmony' and the proliferation/evolution of inharmonic spectra. Currently I am investigating ways of using cellular automata and similar techniques as proliferative methods.
I am also interested in works which use open forms or which can be infintely extended (while retaining their identity): 'game' pieces text pieces and music written on principles/rules rather than brute force notation.

I've begun a project working with a poetry scholar to set the work of Irish poet Brian Coffey as sound; using the sonorous qualites of of the poetry as the basis of musical composition. Three pieces have been done so far, see here.
New: work on this project stalled last year but I've just taken up the principle again in another solo violin piece wherein Amy Whitwam set the challenge of writing a piece which responded to a given poem. Reacting with music to 'meaning' of the words is beyond my capabilities so again I take the sound of the words as my jumping off point. 'Three Mappings of Words' treats the words in three different ways: the words in the score are not to be spoken and are just a guide to the speech rhythm.