Category: 2014

Talking at Tobacco Dock exploring ideas in playful ways can help develop new insights and creative tools.  The presentation is available at WIRED UK.

Running from 16th to the 19th, featuring Missing Link and videos of my work.

An opportunity to see Play House again as part of ITV’s event focusing on popular culture in society.

A family-friendly drop in at the Museum to make mechanical toys with gears, levers and cams made from card, toothpicks and straws!  Event running from 13th March to 24th March.

Exhibiting between 25th February to 3rd March, Play House is an automata that mechanically computes and performs hooky and hypnotic acid house. A sequence of LEGO gears, levers and latches move to mutate riffs and rhythm patterns. Their motions are played out in real time on analogue drums and synthesisers from the halcyon days of 1980’s dance music, while the machine gradually shifts the timbre and space of the sound. With the process and function laid bare one can pick apart the interactions driving the score, seeing sound as it changes in sculpture – or simply rocking out to some fruity acid.

Commissioned by Oxford Contemporary Music, Play House has received media attention in Wired.co.uk, Mixmag and Creators Project. A story entry about the process of the build is on Makezine.