Posts by Tim Yates
Lasers with OptoNoise: Sun 29th Mar. 2015
This Sunday, we met with Stanley Lewry to experiment with the sound of Lasers. The recordings above are made using Lasers being put through engraved/grooved or painted on spinning discs mounted on a motor shaft. Light through the discs are picked up by a transducer into an amplifier for your listening pleasure. 🙂 You can…
Read MoreSlinkies: Sun 22nd Feb. 2015
This meetup, we experimented with the sound of Slinkies [ Thanks to Faraz ]. It is amazing such alien, other-worldly sounds can be obtained from such otherwise ordinary object. We recorded the sound of the slinkies using our frame construction, and the piezo setup we’ve designed last year. The sound at the meetup was absolutely enlightening.…
Read MoreTute Chigamba: Sun 25th Jan. 2015
This meetup, we were joined by Frederic Roksam; a sound and an acoustic engineer who has experience of working in organisations such as IRCAM and Philips Consumer Electronics. One of the participants [ Adam ], playing an African made Mbira, specifically made by the craftsman in the video below. The simplicity of the tools being…
Read MoreAuto Glock: Sun 30th Nov. 2014
People stare at a Solenoid-Powered Glockenspiel… This Sunday witnessed a significant upgrade to the design of the Frame Project, which is thoroughly detailed here [ link ]. This preliminary version is an A-type frame, and the main advantage is the vastness of space created to place much bigger objects. Frame v2.0 upgraded design – uses curtain…
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