Famelab at Science Oxford

Famelab. New voices in science communication will compete in the heats for this national competition held at Science Oxford. All events begin at 7.30pm and are free. Heat 1: Thurs 25 Oct. Heat 2: Wed 31 Oct. Final: Thurs 15 Nov.

Martin Smith / Laikingland

Bird Song with a Found Feather is a mechanical contraption to wake you up to the sound of birdsong. Found on Dezeen.

Mischer'Traxler

A cake that decorates itself "Til You Stop" it, "The Idea of a Tree" and "Nespresso Battery". Weird and wonderful  devices by Mischer'Trexler found on Dezeen.

Fab Lab

Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is a fully kitted fabrication workshop which gives everyone in the community from small children through to entrepreneurs and businesses, the capability to turn their ideas and concepts into reality.

Manchester has been chosen as the first city in the UK to host a Fab Lab, a community inventors' workshop where new products can be built by both businesses and individuals. It was born out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gallery of Lost Art

The Gallery of Lost Art is an online gallery that tells the story of works of art that have disappeared. Destroyed, stolen, discarded, rejected, erased, ephemeral. The Gallery of Lost Art will last for one year before itself being lost.

Shootyourstudio

SHOOTYOURSTUDIO is a blog on design studios. Product design, art, architecture, photography, fashion and music studios. Actually any kind of place where something creative is going on.

Tall Tales: Year One installation at Other Worlds

Year one are collaborating with writer / architect Mike Halliwell to create an installation as part of the "Other Worlds" exhibition at the Story Museum. (May 1-31). The installation entitled "Tall Tales" involves a vista of towers, shadows and projections speaking of possible and ever shifting futures. The towers were designed in response to a request by The Story Museum to imagine a new tower emerging from their building.

Bjoern Ewers.

Photographer and art director Bjoern Ewers has photographed the interiors of musical instruments for the Berlin Philharmonic, revealing their architectural and spatial qualities.

Berlin calling...

We criss-crossed Berlin for five days, taking in Koolhaas, Eisenmann, Chipperfield, Scharoun, I M Pei, Sauerbruch and Hutton, Schinkel, Neimeyer, Aalto, Mies and much more as we went. We saw the ice thaw across the city. Some listened to John Cage and some to German techno!

audiograft

Don't miss out! Sound art on your doorstep. "audiograft" is an annual festival of Contemporary Experimental Music and Sound Art curated by the Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) at Oxford Brookes University. SARU provides a focus for dialogue between the fields of Composition and Sound Art; including acousmatic, collaborative, electroacoustic, experimental, interdisciplinary and site-specific practices alongside engagement with field recording, and soundscape studies.

Folk in a Box

Folk in a Box: The Making of! from David Knight on Vimeo.

Link HERE

Painting in Sound

Documentary on a collaboration at the National Gallery between wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, students from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, professional musicians and sounds artists. The project began with audio guides for paintings selected by the artists, and then developed into an event involving a live sound mix in the gallery to accompany a tour of the paintings with an art historian. NATURE uses these events to explore how painters use a range of techniques to excite the viewers senses; not only the visual sense, but the senses of smell, touch and perhaps most poignantly, hearing. Listen again at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01bllx9

must see exhibition in London

Check out Templehoff Airport paintings and installations at White Cube

Also check out Bermondsey Square, public space designed by East.

Device Workshop

Fourteen signposted cameras as snapper devices capturing the life of Warneford Meadow for 24 hours. Many thanks to Nick Green of Urban Toy Chest for organising this workshop. See link for other results of this project across Europe: www.urbantoychest.wordpress.com

Listen to this....

The Train in the night by Nick Coleman is a book describing the journey into deafness and the hearing of spaces through memory. You can hear it on iplayer this week. See link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b90bt