Gawain Hewitt will share two of his pieces "Forest of London" - an audio sculpture made of steel, wood and gold leaf, and 'Conversations', a photograph/conductive thread piece as part of talk and discussion about his work, the inspiration of place and the tranformative power of sound in art. Additionally he will touch on his […]
Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician who produces work that explores the realms of sound through exquisitely designed pieces. Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1980. between 1999 and 2005 he worked for Japanese art unit Maywa Denki, where he developed a strong interest in music and technology. In 2005 he moved […]
Vahakn Matossian-Gehlhaar is an artist with BA’s and MA’s in Product Design from Brighton and Royal College of Art respectively. Alongside his father Rolf Gehlhaar -researcher in assistive technology for music- he runs Human Instruments. A new company dedicated to the design and production of digital musical instrument interfaces for people with varying physical ability. Working closely […]
Tara Pattenden is an artist, musician and maker of electronic noise instruments. For the past 5 years she has been working with soft circuitry to create interfaces for audio electronics that manipulate sound through touch and movement. She will be presenting and discussing some of her creations. As Phantom Chips she performs with an array […]
Brane Zorman is a composer, sound and radio artist and founder of CONA. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he has composed numerous sound works for theatre and dance performances, new media and internet events and projects. His work examines and explores the possibilities of processing, presenting, perceiving, understanding, positioning, manipulating and reinterpreting the sound and space. […]
Simple playback of audio files within the iPhone environment has always been relatively straightforward. But what if you want to do something more sophisticated with audio in iOS? In the past, the Apple frameworks for doing this have been relatively inaccessible. This workshop will focus on how to use Pd (Pure Data) patches as an […]
Atau Tanaka (eavi.goldsmithsdigital.com) will present twenty years of work in corporeal interaction with computer music systems, with a focus on electro-myogram based muscle interfaces. He will talk us through his artistic practise and academic research as well as his work in the music technology industry. In addition, the event will feature a demo, and samples […]
During the six weeks you will build The Ultimate Headbutting Machine – 10 step sequencer with drums and cymbals. You will learn principles of electronics starting from simple circuits to more complex ones. Each class (4h per week) will be focused on building different modules of the UHM, exploring CMOS technology in depth. Participants will […]
Becky Stewart will share her work combining music with textiles and will bring along samples to demonstrate. She will show Solo Disco Scarf and Sound Direction, both developed as tools to teach simple analogue audio signal processing through sewing and crocheting circuits. She will also show her current work using textile interfaces as capacitive touch control surfaces for […]
Ross Flight is and sound and interactive system designer working in designing for theatre for the last ten years. Ross will present a short musical performance followed by an explanation of the processes involved in the data translation and the importance of mapping when it comes to interactive sound design. Ross' work has increasingly begun […]