Sonic Futures: Sound Postcard player and website

Posted on: November 2, 2020

A collaborative project with sound artist Aleksander Kolkowski to create a website and web-based record player as a part of the Science and Media Museum’s Sonic Futures exhibition. Sound postcards were popular in the early 1900s and consisted of a postcard accompanied by a small phonograph (or gramophone) record. The website documents the history of this novel recording technology along with the making of some recently commissioned examples and includes a web-based record player for playing them.

Visit the Sound Postcards website to see (and listen to!) the new postcards.

I’m a freelance web developer, graphic designer, digital artist, music producer and an EPSRC funded PhD researcher at The University of Nottingham. I currently work across a variety of sectors for companies, agencies, individuals and organisations throughout the UK. My research explores past and present futures, working with sound, open source hardware and software, radio transmissions, live data feeds and custom digital processing techniques, it seeks to exploit both emerging and near-obsolete technologies in order to create visual and sonic artworks that challenge popular aesthetics. Influenced by fields including cybernetics, artificial intelligence and science fiction, the resultant works are often realised by exploiting technology’s perceived failings in order to expose otherwise hidden content, or to generate initially indeterminate output that can be used as a foundation for further exploration.