Bicycle powered synthesiser - the Velotone
Penguin on display at the Southbank Centre (Clore Ballroom) from Sunday 18th to Wednesday 28th April.
There will be a special performance around midday on the 24th, involving lots of interesting equipment - hope you can make it!
New project - Marvin the Robotic Penguin
A rare chance to see Nine Owls in a Baguette this Friday 22nd January at Corsica Studios.
There will be strange costumes and even stranger sounds, with home-made electronic instruments and owl masks.
Visit to Jean Tinguely exhibition
I have just made a remix for my good friend DJ Urine, who makes fantastic music by gluing together sections of different records and playing them on up to six turntables simultaneously.
The album also has a remix by DJ Scotch Egg and other interesting people, and is available to buy on vinyl here.
Ralph the Robot (prototype preview)
Sonic Explorations workshop - children playing the musical stepladders
Casio SK-5 with CGS/Steiner Synthacon filter
Another modified Roland TR-505 drum machine
Nine Owls in a Baguette perform 'A Recipe for Disaster', an opera in roughly four parts, live at Cafe Oto, Dalston.
Joe Henson's Tweed Runner machine completed today - construction details and video here
Thorpe Park ride and scenery restoration - painting Happy Halibuts in the snow.
NewSound audio newspapers - collaboration with the London Sinfonietta
Finally managed to start making a modular synthesiser - hooray!
You can buy PCBs to make your own from www.musicfromouterspace.com
The power supply is from www.synthesizers.com
A rather excellent band called Mucky Sailor have asked me to make a musical ship's wheel for them - click here.
Huge mechanical LED sculpture constructed at the workshop of 2D3D Ltd.
Just received an exciting new commission from Joe Henson (www.joe.hensonmusic.com):
"I am looking for: Sweeps Bleeps and Beats, and maybe voices... Anything that could be in the film Brazil... I want to live in the land of Blade Runner but in Britain.... in tweed."
And so the Tweed Runner project was born. This page will be updated as the project progresses.
Three performances in one week from Naked With Horses side project Nine Owls in a Baguette - click here!
Finished the speaker brackets for Kaffe's Marvelo bikes - click here.
Me on the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7432505.stm
Future Music have just published a rather nice article about some of the stuff I've made. Click here to read.
Just started some work for sound artist Kaffe Matthews - brackets to attach speakers to six bicycles. Check out The Culture Show on BBC2, June 17th.
Four new Furby Gurdies! Sound files and more details on the way...
Some characters for a gig at The Others, Stoke Newington, London. L-R: 'Monsieur Hibou', 'Dr. Sandfax' and 'Rod Hull 3000'. Dr. Sandfax is named after a fax machine made on a beach near La Rochelle.
