I’ll be getting out the camel hair brush and putting my 1904 Edison Standard Phonograph through its paces at the Catalyst Club, Brighton, 10 December 2009. Hear some commercial wax cylinders from the early 1900s and witness a live recording of a voice from the audience, straight onto a blank cylinder of carnauba wax…
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11 February 2009
Exhibits, Sounds
Tags: acoustics, Bad Vibes, baked beans, EPSRC, Foley artist, school science project ideas, science fair activities, sound effects, Trevor Cox, vomit, world's worst sound
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Don’t read this entry if you’re about to eat your dindins. I created this sound effect for Bad Vibes, an exhibit I made for acoustician Trevor Cox to test people’s endurance of the worst sounds in the world.
In December 2006, Spacedog assembled a group of musicians in the reverb chamber of the UK National Physical Laboratory. This room has one of the longest reverberation times in Europe. Here are some videos of our extemporisations in this highly unusual musical space.