Live events
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Echo in a Bottle
BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4
A documentary for BBC Radio 4, exploring our fascination with the echo and our attempts to capture echoes through the centuries. For a new arts series Pursuit of Beauty, a Far Shoreline Production produced by Peregrine Andrews.
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Being There
Bristol, UK Pervasive Media Studio
A short performance at the showcase for Being There, an EPSRC-funded exploration of humans and robots in public spaces.
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Multimedia, art and sound design course
Dartington , Devon, UK Dartington Summer School and Festival
20-27 August 2016 I'll be teaming up with fellow composer and sound artist Matthew Fairclough to present this fun, one week course for musicians of all backgrounds interested in electronics, composition and sound installations.
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CANCELLED: Sweet Thames Flow Softly
London, UK Fulham Palace
CANCELLED: In the Tudor Great Hall, live music inspired by The Bows and other London folksongs, for a Caught by the River exhibition about Thames lore: Sweet Thames Flow Softly.
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Acoustic set (featuring saw)
Beccles (nr. Southwold), Suffolk, UK Latitude Festival
Musical saw and other acoustic instruments in this solo set on the evening Bandstand.
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Alternative Histories of Electronic Music
London , UK Science Museum Research Centre
A conference exploring alternative histories of electronic music
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Sonic Imperfections
London, UK Sonic Imperfections
A live performance for this experimental music night when it visits Telegraph Hill Festival.
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Our Machines
Hastings , East Sussex , UK The Observer Building
A musical performance, featuring some new experiments with poetic robotics and telepresence. For Our Machines, an events series curated by Louise Colbourne.
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Listening in the Wild
London Centre for Digital Music, QMUL
Listening in the Wild - birdsong extemporisations on the robotic carillon and a short talk on songbirds and music
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Sonic Imperfections
London The Montague Arms
Sonic Imperfections - a short set at this monthly music night
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Train your Bird in Stereo
Charlbury, UK Wilderness Festival
Train your Bird in Stereo - a short talk about the ancient art of teaching songbirds human tunes
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Moog Soundlab
Birmingham, UK Millennium Point
Moog Soundlab - all day, 4 and 5 June
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All Ears
Birmingham, UK Millennium Point
Hourly demo of new automatic pipe organ - 6 to 14 June
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Prima Vista
Tartu, Estonia Elektriteater
Music to sci-fi film from the BFI National Archive
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Harmonic Series
London, UK The Blue Room, Royal Festival Hall
Live performance for Harmonic Series - RFH series of adventurous new music
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Off the Page – Oslo
Oslo, Norway Kunstnernes Hus
Talk for Off the Page, Oslo - hosted by The Wire and nyMusikk
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Robotics and performance masterclass
London, UK City Lit
A one-day masterclass on introducing robotics and Arduino into your stage act.
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Spike Island
Bristol, UK Spike Island
Live performance with music and automata, including an accompaniment to a film by Anna Franceschini
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British Library Labs Symposium
London, UK British Library
Talk and short performance - exploring some unlikely affinities between sound making today and in the Victorian era
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The Attic
Southampton, UK The Art House
The Attic - joining Professor Elemental and fellow Spacedog Stephen Hiscock for this musical cabaret with a Halloween theme.
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Fort Process
Newhaven, UK Newhaven Fort
A live musical, robotic installation at Fort Process, a one day sound and art festival in the labyrinthine acoustic spaces of Newhaven Fort.
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Live at Campbell Road
Brighton, UK Campbell Road Studios
Live at Campbell Road Studios - Minimal Bouge also on the bill
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Maker Faire
Newcastle, UK Centre for Life
Newcastle Maker Faire. A live performance with Spacedog and a short talk on the Uncanny Valley.
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Atomic Gardening
London, UK Resonance FM
Podcast: A poetic, one-hour documentary, digging into the British allotments and archives to reveal the little known story of the 1950s atomic gardening movement.
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Atomic Gardening
Southampton, UK Nuffield Theatre
Atomic Gardening - a new, 20 minute TEDx talk for the University of Southampton, curated by James Dyke. The theme of the day is 'flourishing in the 21st century'.
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Monomania
Cambridge, UK Cambridge Junction
Monomania - a one-day festival exploring obsessive and solitary creative experience.
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Bees in a Tin
Birmingham, UK The Gatehouse
Bees in a Tin - a talk and demo at this gathering of people who experiment with novel interfaces
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Sound Women
Brighton The Marlborough Theatre
A live interview for this Brighton collective of women who work with audio.
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If Wet Fundraiser
Callow End, Worcester, UK Village Hall
If Wet Fundraiser - hosted by Morton Underwood, in a village hall in rural Worcestershire.
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Live at the Art House
Southampton, UK The Art House
Live music for this Halloween celebration
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Bring to Light
Birmingham, UK New Library
Bring to Light - a weekend of adventurous music celebrating the opening of the new Library of Birmingham. Curated by Capsule.
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Time Travel Live
London, UK Hack Circus, The Star of Kings
A talk and short performance for Hack Circus, comparing depictions of time travel in two of my favourite books.
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dConstruct
Brighton, UK Brighton Dome
A talk on technology, sound and the uncanny, at dConstruct, an annual forum on technology and culture.
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Green Man Festival
Powys, Wales, UK Glanusk Park
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Odditorium
Abbots Ripton
Various salon talks on unusual topics at The Secret Garden Party.
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Aether Music: double bill with Time Attendant
London, UK Horse Hospital
Music from the aether, time slip and magic, as I perform a double-bill with fellow electronic musician Time Attendant.
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If Wet
Callow End, Worcester, UK Village Hall
A talk and demo at the first outing of If Wet - a show-and-tell for sonic artists in a village hall.
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Scratch performance for Sound Day
Brighton, UK The Basement
A scratch performance made from processed field recordings collected by participants at Brighton's first Sound Day
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Caper’s 2nd Birthday Party (invitation only)
London, UK Modern Jago
A short set to celebrate the second birthday of digital prototyping and design agency Caper.
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Theremin jam session
Brighton, UK Hendricks’ Carnival of Knowledge
Duetting on theremin with Leila Dear - as part of a day of events curated by Strange Attractor and Disinformation.
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Spacedog live
Brighton, UK Bom-Bane's
An evening with human, theremin and robot trio Spacedog, in the delightful Brighton music café Bom-Bane's.
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Horlicks and Armageddon
Brighton, UK Sub-basement, Old Police Cell Museum
In a sub-basement refuge, deep under the streets of Brighton, I’ll be using live music and spoken word to recall the secret lives of Britain’s self-styled nuclear survivalists.
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Rocket Lolly
Edinburgh, UK Teviot
An evening of peculiar and rarely seen vintage British science films, many accompanied live by Spacedog, plus a DJ set from Project Moonbase, your MCs for the night.
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Double-bill with Thomas Truax
London, UK MS Stubnitz
An evening of dark cabaret, sonic experiments and extraordinary machines, as I join the magnificent fellow musician and hacker Thomas Truax for a double-bill.
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Flatpack Festival
Birmingham, UK Minerva Works
A live performance for Flatpack Festival - one of a series of events celebrating the heyday of Birmingham Arts Lab.
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Tech City IWD Showcase
London, UK Poke
Demonstrating some of my musical automata in an evening showcasing women who work creatively with tech.
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The Voice
London, UK Wellcome Collection
I'll record a voice from the audience on wax, using an original Edison phonograph as I discuss Victorian obsessions with capturing the voices of the dead.
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Click (BBC World Service live)
London, UK BBC Radio Theatre
Playing live on theremin, accompanied by automata, as part of a live BBC World Service show on humans and robots.
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The Effect
London, UK National Theatre (Cottesloe)
Composing music for this new play by Lucy Prebble, directed by Rupert Goold. A Headlong Theatre production for the National Theatre.
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Spacedog and Prof. Elemental on the end of the pier
Bournemouth, UK Bournemouth Pier
Spacedog fulfill a lifelong ambition to play the end of a pier, as they team up with the mighty Professor Elemental for a night of music, uncanny robots and spoken word.
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‘Ed Wood’ with Spacedog live
Bristol, UK The Cube
Theremin, robots, vocals and vibes in this live musical curiosity from Spacedog, following a screening of Tim Burton's wonderful biopic 'Ed Wood' (1994).
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City Reads presents: The Spotted Dog revisited
Brighton The Marlborough Theatre
I'll be channeling the repertoire, wardrobe and playing style of Dolly, a legendary Brighton pub pianist, in this memoire of gay culture in Brighton in the late 1950s.
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Rocket Lolly and End of the World Party
Aberdeen British Science Festival 2012
Spacedog perform Rocket Lolly, an hour of rarely seen vintage science films, ccompanied live on theremin, saw, vibes and other instruments.
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The Odditorium
Saltash, Cornwall, UK Port Eliot Festival
The Odditorium - a series of talks on mavericks, pranksters and the arcane.
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Supersonix Festival
London, UK Exhibition Road
Talks at this festival celebrating the art and science of sound.