10.06.17 – 24.09.17
SOUND CHECK
Break out your old mix tapes, swing your way to melodic bliss or rock up to our NOISE STUDIO to make your own synth. SOUND CHECK: MAKE IT, PLAY IT at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin is a noisy cacophony that will make your hair stand on end and your stomach vibrate!
Advisors
Nicholas Brown
Nicolas Collins
Lisa Downes
David McKeown
Researchers
Zack Denfeld
Aisling Murray
Highlights
Exhibits
Ya slip ta bang is an interactive composition mapped over the streets of Dublin that will unfold for visitors as they ride 'sonic bikes' along specific routes of the city.
Touchology is an exploratory investigation into a new wave of music where instruments and interfaces are designed around gestural controls.
Chicks on Speed’s OBJECTINSTRUMENTS are a series of self-made invented instruments…
String Pull is an electronic music instrument played using a now discontinued golf game controller known as the GameTrak
Star Struck is Lucas’ latest concoction in his ‘pinball-as-instrument’ series, exploring the musical potential of pinball as a format for experiential instruments that give audiences a performer’s perspective.
Springthing is an electric instrument with springs mounted on a narrow plank.
Polyphony functions as a large compound ear that separates, abstracts and re-organises the myriad sounds of the world.
The sculpture consists of a 44-note xylophone, played mechanically by a series of mallets and actuators (part of a machine responsible for moving or manipulating a mechanism or system).
The Next Generation Sound Synthesis (NESS) project, which ran from 2012 to 2016 at the University of Edinburgh, was a major effort devoted to extending the possibilities of synthetic sound generated on a computer.
The Moog Sound Lab (MSL) UK is a unique, self-contained, portable analogue synthesiser studio especially created by Moog Music Inc.
Giant Music Box was originally created as an interactive music exhibit for the Exploratorium in San Francisco…
ClusterChord is a mechanically controlled acoustic zither with electromechanically generated percussive sounds.
Chit-chat is an interactive sound installation, transforming human vocalisation into that of birds.
Baloica is an interactive sound installation that transforms a swing set into a musical instrument.
In the twentieth century, humans first attempted to harness energy from the nuclear reaction.