On Friday I attended the latest In The Dark listening event which was held at the Folly for a Flyover venue (a peculiar pop-up cinema / art space) in Hackney, East London. What was particularly exciting about this event was that I was having one of my very own pieces exhibited / played and it was very humbling to hear … Continue reading »
Audio piece I’m currently in the midst of producing a 30 minute radio piece on the subject of death. To be more specific, I’m exploring contemporary attitudes towards death and doing so through the perspective of those who deal with death on a daily basis. Part of my project took me to the basement of … Continue reading »
I’m posting two little audio pieces to mark the end of NASAs space shuttle program which will (with any luck) enter its final mission today with the launch of Atlantis (STS-135) in a few hours. The first was produced for the latest Imperial College I,Science podcast and features science writer and producer Piers Bizony speaking … Continue reading »
Dark Energy So most of our universe (over 70%) is made up of something called Dark Energy. We can’t see it and we don’t really know what it is… Matter – everything that makes up me, you, planets and stars – appears to make up only a very small fraction of the universe, about 4%. … Continue reading »
EchoBank In this Episode I visit Dr Kate Jones at the Zoological Society of London to find out about a bat call reference library they’re developing called ‘Echobank’ which is being used in conjunction with the iBats monitoring program. Scientists at the Zoological Society of London are using Echobank to teach a neural network to identify … Continue reading »
SEEING WITH SOUND In this episode I take a listen to the vOICe technology which has been developed to help the blind ‘see’ with sound. I’m joined by Dr Michael Proulx of Queen Mary University London who is currently using the vOICe technology to understand how different sense modalities interact to give rise to perception. … Continue reading »
LHC Sound Project In the first episode I explore the work scientists have been doing to turn the data from the Large Hadron Collider at Cern into sound. Through a process known as ‘sonification’ – data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN can be transformed into sound, providing an insight into what the elusive Higgs … Continue reading »
