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.
Posted on: May 8, 2021
Horror-Fi Me invites listeners to enter into and become composers of their own interactive horror movie soundscape, a real-time cinematic experience that entices exploration and promises both intrigue and suspense – the creation of a filmic experience where reality is the screen. Horror-Fi Me has been developed using mobile augmented reality (AR) technology and dynamic binaural spatialised audio to render a realistic audio augmented reality soundscape within almost any real world environment. Horror-Fi Me works… read more
Posted on: March 27, 2018
“We’re functioning automaticAnd we are dancing mechanicWe are the robots, we are the robots…” (Kraftwerk, 1978). Kraftwerk’s The Robots, features on the band’s 1978 album Man-Machine. It reflects both the band’s cyborg-like stage theatrics, their futurist aesthetic, and society’s pre-occupation with mechanical and artificial humans. This fascination with robotic or artificial humans has presented itself in various forms for century’s. Such as Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk in 1769, the chess playing mechanical automaton (Collins & d’Escrivan,… read more