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Muriel Howorth: Atomic gardener
The Odditorium is a compendium of eccentrics, trickers, deviants and obsessives, many of whom are largely unacknowledged in the usual histories of science, politics and the arts. This book has been compiled…
9 June 2018 -
Ventriloquism: Unheimlich Manoeuvres
Published online by Wire Magazine (June 2014), Unheimlich Manoeuvres is a short essay on ventriloquism and the uncanny. It’s illustrated with videos of many fine ventriloquists including Ray Alan, Arthur Worsley and…
21 May 2018 -
Material Culture and Electronic Sound
Material Culture and Electronic Sound is edited by Tim Boon and Frode Weium, with a forward by Brian Eno. Published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (2013), this is the eighth book in…
21 May 2018 -
Reprint of Daphne Oram’s ‘An Individual Note’
Funded by the Daphne Oram Trust, Anomie Academic have republished Daphne Oram’s An Individual Note: of Music, Sound and Electronics – a book that’s been out of print since 1973. This beautiful…
21 May 2018 -
South Shields meets the sublime
A report on the Foghorn Requiem When sound escapes the confines of a building, it takes on an unusual caste. At myriad outdoor festivals around the country, we’re in denial about this…
24 June 2013 -
Happy Ada Lovelace Day 2011
This must be how it feels to see a unicorn. Six months ago, I came face to face with a machine I’d read about often but never expected to see. A one-off…
7 October 2011 -
The Bird Fancyer’s Delight – background notes
For those of you who would like to know more about The Bird Fancyer’s Delight, the topic of my recent Radio 4 documentary, here’s a bumper crop of references I’ve found over the last few months. These include transcripts from the British Library, music excerpts, photographs of a serinette and details of contributors to the show. I hope you find them interesting…
6 July 2011 -
Stooky Bill
With jet black eyes and hair singed by the lights of the John Logie Baird’s early televisor, Stooky Bill was the inventor’s ventriloquial sidekick. Stooky’s face appeared as a streaky blob on the second ever televisor image, around 1925. Here’s photographic evidence that Baird had at least two Stooky Bills.
30 May 2011 -
Loving the Machine – notes
Thanks to everyone who came along to TEDx Brighton, January 2011. I had a great time – never knew I could hear so many new ideas in one day. Taking a tip from Antony Mayfield’s inspiring talk on social networks, I’d like to share these links with you all…
22 January 2011 -
Music machines in the Science Museum stores
A trip to the electronic musical instrument collection of the Science Museum stores, during a research trip on electronic sound (March 2010). I was shown around the stores by curators Tim Boon…
28 March 2010 -
Play the saw in six weeks
A brief tutorial on how to play the saw, a European skiffle instrument with a haunting, ethereal sound.
18 January 2009
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