Laurence Cliffe

intermedia arts | creative technology | research through design

Sonic Futures: Sound Postcard player

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 included this web-based record player for playing a selection of newly commissioned sound posts remotely.

Click a sound postcard to play.

Sound Postcard - Zoetrope Sound Postcard

Sound Postcard - Sounds that Emerge from the Silence

Sound Postcard - Listening for the 22nd Century

Sound Postcard - People I see in the Absence of a Dishwasher

Sound Postcard Player developed by Laurence Cliffe in collaboration with Aleks Kolkowski.

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Psychobotanic Installation

Posted on: April 7, 2016

Psychobotanic Installation utilises the inherent electrical connections and resistive properties of plants and their ability to interact and adapt to their environment to create an interactive visual and sonic installation. Visitors are invited to interact with the installation directly, enabling them to create different live audio and visual scenarios. Psychobotanic Installation invites questions, and raises awareness, regarding the consciousness and interactive potentials of plant life, a theme continually explored within popular science fiction from The Day Of the Triffids to Avatar and the… read more

As an intermedia artist and creative technologist, I have worked for a variety of different institutions, companies, agencies, individuals and organisations. My practice-based research explores past and present futures, working with sound, open source hardware and software, radio transmissions, live data 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 a 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 research and exploration. I am currently a research fellow based at the University of Nottingham's Mixed Reality Laboratory.

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