Chibitronics fun time

Combining crafts and electronics in a lovely little way.

http://www.crowdsupply.com/chibitronics/circuit-stickers

3d print show

I attended the 3D print show in London this year and found a couple of interesting sound related occurrences.

Here the website for the show
http://3dprintshow.com/category/london2013/

One thing that caught my eye was Gilles Azzaro voice sculptor with his exhibit http://www.gillesazzaro.com/pages/fr/printing3D.htm. Using an Obama speech carved physically into a 3D printed sculpture with a lazer that ran along and scanned the riddles and trough to churn out the speech. It was pretty epic.

Another awesomesauce feature of the show was a robot, like acutal robot, that would respond to vocal commands and was not only 3D printed with the parts, the software and the schematics were all completely open source. By the company InMoov. http://www.inmoov.fr/

Check it! I want to build one.

Marco Donnarumma Xth sense

After attending a recent talk by Miguel Ortiz (http://www.miguel-ortiz.com/), the name Marco Donnarumma was mentioned in conjunction with Xth sense. A free open source system for interfacing biochemical signals with the computer to create sounds from biology!

Its cool, look it.

http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/xth-sense/

Chris Watson, meeting an inspiration.

I got the chance to go and see Chris Watson, forerunning audio recordist, in Bournemouth as part of the Arts Festival. This guy is phenomenal and very passionate and informative about what he does, I would urge anyone to see him talk if the can as he is very open with techniques, equipment and rivetting stories of the natural and man-made world of sound.

http://artsbournemouth.org.uk/events/chris-watson-talk-and-performance/

I then went on the field trip day to Brownsea Island the next day where we took hydrophonic, contact and parabolic mics to capture some of the sounds of the island and to glean knowledge from Chris himself on what to record and where, and why. It was a fantastic day!

http://artsbournemouth.org.uk/events/chris-watson-field-trip/

RING! An experience

On 1/10/13 I went to see/listen to Ring. What an experience to be sat in pitch black room with 200 other people and binaural recorings played to simulate your journey to another room. It was pretty epic and at times terrifying.

http://artsbournemouth.org.uk/events/ring/

Penned in the Margins and Mercy presents Electronic Voice Phenomina

This was a special and weird night and I enjoyed each performance in a different way. My top two were Ross Sutherland with hisamazing spoken word and visual accompaniment;

http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/

Also Leafcutter John with his energy field microphone that made audible the hidden world of electronics and their electronically goings on;

http://leafcutterjohn.com/

Here is the website for the event which was part of Bournemouths Art by the Sea Festival;

http://artsbournemouth.org.uk/events/penned-in-the-margins-mercy-presents-electronic-voice-phenomena/ 

Here is a few pics of the night and the wonderful and kooky location of Shelley Manor Theatre!

Chorus Ray Lee - Arts Festival Bournemouth

I had the pleasure of seeing Ray Lees spectacle of metal, light, and sound that was Chorus. Below are a couple of pictures and a little video (sorry shaky and blurry cam). Also links to Ray Lee's website and the arts festival information on the event. 

http://artsbournemouth.org.uk/events/chorus-ray-lee/

http://www.invisible-forces.com/about%20ray%20lee.htm