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…
Read MoreLasers 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…
Read MoreMaker Faire: Sat 15th Nov. 2014
We recently had a lot of fun participating at the Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire. It was inspiring to meet so many creatives and makers, and to receive such great feedback. This is the summary of the event, with videos, photographs and some sounds! The Frame has somewhat always been a core project we’ve…
Read MoreSun 26th Oct. 2014
The sound of metal on metal, and clickety-clacks of springs on rods and relays – flawlessly automated. What more could one ask for? Call for Works We’re excited to be participating in the Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire 2014, taking place on Saturday 15th November at London College of Communication. If you would like…
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