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2011

Exploring Complexity Through Play

This presentation explored other means of making the complex more tangible, breaking down a clock into components so one can develop an intimacy with the machine and see it from the inside. Four building blocks – the pulley, rewinder, escapement and dial – were introduced and gradually assembled into a working machine.

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Missing Link Development

March-June 2011

A single motor drives eight chain loops, each of which is responsible for periodically lifting and dropping a mallet that sounds one note of a glockenspiel. Each successive chain is one link shorter than the last. As they loop around they fall ever further out of sync resulting in a unique changing melody.

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Missing Link

Missing Link is a series of chains driven from a single motor, each with one link less than the last. As they turn they play a unique phased melody which repeats once every 1,300 years. This piece won an award from ResonanceFM as part of their Open exhibit which ran alongside Gone with the Wind by Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi and Walter Marchetti.  Running from 9th June to 17th July.

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Clock Development

Brookes University
March-June 2011

These clock components were developed for the ‘Exploring Complexity Through Play’ presentation at the Ovada Stammtisch which continued my experimentation with the modular presentation format.

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Phased Glockenspiel Playing Machine

Brookes University – Arena
March 2011

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New Audio Rigs Jam Session Recording

Brookes University – Arena
March 2011

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LEGO Plaiting machine

Specialist Subject Presentation
Brookes University – Black Box Studio
February 2011

This machine was culmination of the exploration and development of a number of mechanisms wising LEGO. The plaiting method was developed from a long-standing fascination as to how machines perform this action.

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LEGO Presentation

Brookes University – Group Meeting
December 2010

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20 Images

Brookes University – Arena
October 2010

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Collaborative Marimba

Research and Development Presentation
Brookes University – Music Rooms
May 2010

The same principle as the blindfolded piano only with more people, each choosing a note and then playing it with decreasing tempo whilst blindfolded and wearing ear protection.