Tags: acoustics, Brighton events, Catalyst Club, cylinder, Edison phonograph, science of music, spiritualism
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…
Sarah Angliss is a musician, engineer and writer.
Her band Spacedog mixes theremin, vocals and laptops with Sarah's home-spun musical robots.
Uncanny Valley - a new live show from Spacedog, Prof. Elemental and assorted robot friends, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, 5 May 2010
Spacedog with Jane Bom-Bane and Nick Pynn, Bom-Bane's, Brighton, 13 May 2010
Electricity and Ghosts - live performance at Battersea Power Station (date tbc)
Spacedog play Hastings Museum and F-ish Gallery, 20 March 2010
Electricity and Ghosts preview at the Kinetica Art Fair, 5-7 February 2010
Shift Run Stop - podcast interview, January 2010 Demo at Dorkbot Recording live onto a wax cylinder, using an original Edison phonograph, Catalyst Club, Brighton, 10 December 2009 Clog dancing as early noise music, with Caroline Radcliffe, Central, London, 4 December 2009 Robin Ince's Darwin birthday bash Transfer New multimodal effect, in collaboration with Punchdrunk
Sleigh ride (Troika), from Prokovief's Lieutenant Kije, played on the robotic bells
This bell rig is regularly used in live performance - this is the Mk III version, built December 2008.