Voice and communication coaching for presenters, actors and anyone who uses their voice! * Run 1 to 1 sessions and group workshops. * Work in drama school settings (including Arts1 in MK), in professional theatre across UK and in corporate spaces. * Adaptive practice is a big part of the work- communication comes in many … Eyebrow Communication
Mortality Tabes is a collaborative arts project founded by Woburn Sands-based music journalist Mat Smith (Electronic Sound, Further., Clash, Pooleyville.city). With its roots in sound art, field recordings and electronic composition, Mortality Tables recently expanded its focus to encompass multi-disciplinary practice with The Impermanence Project. The project has seen over 75 global collaborators each responding … Mortality Tables
Sonic artist Ray Lee – British Composer of the Year for Sonic Art in 2012 – created Chorus, a giant sound installation that was presented at three sites in Central Milton Keynes during Milton Keynes International Festival 2014. Chorus consisted of an impressive series of huge metal tripods with rotating arms which towered above the … Chorus
The Lock Shift Songs, was a sonic installation by Award-winning sound artist Kaffe Matthews commissioned by the Canal & River Trust and Milton Keynes International Fesitival in 2014. In a walk along the Grand Union Canal – which connects London to Milton Keynes – Kaffe collected sounds (including from under the water) and stories from … The Lock Shift Songs
The Music Computing Lab is a research group in The Open University’s School of Computing and Communications at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. Combining musicology, psychology, ethnography, embodied cognition, mathematics and computing, it develops new interfaces for music creation and learning — tangible, multi-touch and haptic-feedback systems — alongside computational models of music perception (harmony and … Music Computing Lab
Outlands is an open-membership national network connecting organisations, producers, promoters, venues and individuals working in experimental music and interdisciplinary performance, with a particular focus on audiences outside London. It commissions new work and tours it across the UK. Initiated by the De La Warr Pavilion in 2018 and independent since 2020, its programme has included … Outlands
The third Outlands tour event, Drift, presented ‘part club, part installation, part immersive environment’: artists performed inside a specially built space where motion sensors and microphones monitored the room, crowd and performers, feeding a central system that projected visuals responding to the live performance. The set fused heavy electronics, hypno-chaotic grooves and precise frequency control, … Outlands #3: Drift
An Outlands commission by musician Beatrice Dillon and artist Keith Harrison merging rhythmic computer-music composition with transformed raw materials, via a modular system of malleable substances, light and multi-channel audio, with an experimental structure that changed reactively across tour dates. Accompanying daytime workshops by tour DJs Copper Sounds let participants design and cast playable wax … Outlands #4: Ecstatic Material
City of Things was a 60-channel sound installation by Caroline Devine celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ‘new town’ of Milton Keynes. Commissioned by Bletchley Park Codebreaking Centre in partnership with MK Gallery, the Cowper and Newton Museum and The Open University, and set within the Grade II listed shopping centre building, it opens the … City of Things
Memory Line is a multimedia artwork reflecting on the techniques used for memory storage during the early days of digital computing, listening to the testimonies of those who experienced the first programmable memory machine. The short documentary film features three women who are veterans of EDSAC remembering their time working with the machine, alongside volunteers … Memory Line