Ealing Feeder – new exhibit at the Kinetica Art Fair 5-7 February 2010

I’ll be showing off the latest version of my carillon (automatic bell-playing rig) at the Kinetica Art Fair, P3 Gallery, 23 Marylebone Road, London, 5-7 February 2010. You’ll find me on the ArtHertz’ stall Electricity and Ghosts, which gives a sneak preview of our upcoming live show at Battersea Power Station.

Here, it will be playing an electric lullaby, inspired by a delightfully unsettling poem I discovered on the pages of The Electric Age (Vol 1, 1930), a pioneering gadget magazine published by the Electrical Association for Women. The words of the lullaby are inscripted on the piece, along with fragments of domestic circuitry from the time.

I’ll be posting images of the new carillon in a week or so – it features a new figure which may interest anyone who has enjoyed watching my other  robotic dolls in action. The words Ealing Feeder come from the control room of Battersea Power Station, which provided London with electricity during the boom years of the fossil fuel age.

22 January 2010

Posted in Exhibits | Robots | Sounds

Tags: carillon, Ealing Feeder, EAW, Kinetica Art Fair, musical robots