It’s the press launch tonight of the Brighton Festival Fringe. This year, Spacedog are teaming up with Professor Elemental to bring you a delightfully unsettling evening, probing our very human fears of the almost human, from zombies to ventriloquists’ dummies. Marlborough Theatre, 5 May 2010.

Accompanied by our home-spun musical robots, we’ll be singing songs of love, death and the uncanny as we explore the darkest reaches of your mind. With theremins, taxidermy and strange automata…

I’ll be showing off the Ealing Feeder, the latest version of my carillon (automatic bell-playing rig) at the Kinetica Art Fair, P3 Gallery, 35 Marylebone Road, London, 5-7 February 2010.

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…

Hear 8-bit sound artist extraordinaire Paul B Davis, Dave Green and I talking about electronic music, robots and other geekery on Shift Run Stop, a new weekly podcast from Leila Johnston and Roo Reynolds…

This is my Mk III robotic bell rig, designed to make it easier to take the bells to venues. I’ve already used the bells in my own compositions at the Gasworks Gallery, Vauxhall (a Resonance FM night, curated by Ed Baxter) and at the Freebutt, Brighton. Here, for Christmas 2008, they’re playing Troika (from Prokovief’s Lieutenant Kije).