Posts by Tim Yates
Highlights from Turbine Festival: Sat 25th July 2015
With an estimated 28,000 people through the doors of Tate Modern, 8,000 people more than a usual Saturday in July, the Turbine Festival 2015 is by far the largest and most successful event we’ve ever participated in. We had so much fun meeting people of all ages, and sharing with them our fascination in sound through weird and wonderful…
Read MoreSolenoid City: Sun 28th June 2015
We had some more fun with solenoids this week – Tim brought the prototype for the next iteration of the automated glockenspiel which you can see in the video and image below. It’s going to be ready for the Turbine Festival at the Tate, so watch this space…
Read MoreGround Control: Sun 31st May 2015
This little critter is Maplin’s Bone Conductor Transducer offering for not so cheap at £9.99! [ Maplin ] It is a small, sturdy and relatively weighty device, due to a metal body housing two coils and a metal actuator. The metal plate photographed above in between the screws is a moving actuator, which induces vibration into any surface…
Read MoreIn the Darkness! Sun 26th April 2015
Have you ever heard the sound of fishing line? Probably not! That’s why we are here. Our purpose is to present to you materials like never before. You can hear the Fishing line as it stretches due to the weight of the hanging blade. The recording was made using our Frame Project. Below is a high…
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