Hello! You’ve stumbled on my rough and ready page of videos on the Uncanny Valley hypothesis – a hotly debated theory about our very human fear of almost human objects.

Why is some music spookier than others? Which tracks give you a shiver down the spine? Is it the music, the lyrics or the association with a creepy film or place that gives it that edge? Join our mini survey to find the ‘world’s spookiest music’ and hear a live performance of the top-rated spooky music in the Brighton Festival Fringe.

Named in honour of the original theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, Clara 2.0 is a robot doll who can play the theremin live. I call her the ‘polite robot thereminist’ as she listens to a line from another player and moves her dolly arm to bring her own theremin in perfect tune.

A mini, automatic puppet show in a shed, created on a shoestring budget for the South Bank Centre, summer 2007. The brief was to come up with something novel inside a garden shed that would celebrate the area and appeal to families.