About Us
Participation, curiosity & play
Science Communication & Sonic Art
Learning through experimentation
Why?
Effective science communication and arts participation rely on meaningful engagement with all kinds of people, in all kinds of settings. We bring imagination, humour, fascination, passion, creativity, a lot of experience and some very innovative contraptions to help push the message: learning how the world works is a beautiful and creative journey.
Most of our work is focussed around:
- science, especially physics
- music/sonic art/organised noise
- e-waste awareness and repurposing/upcycling
Who?
Noisy Toys is run by the artist and educator Stephen Summers, who works with a small team of freelance artists, Makers and performers for specific projects.
Noisy Toys is run by the artist and educator Stephen Summers, who works with a small team of freelance artists, Makers and performers for specific projects.
What?
Scavenger Labs C.I.C. is a Community Interest Company that Noisy Toys operates through as a rading name. The Directors are Stephen Summers & Mick Chesterman.
Where?
Noise HQ is in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. We travel all over the country and beyond to deliver our activities and performances.
Stephen Summers
- Artist/ musician/ science communicator
- Composer specialising in electroacoustic music
- Cellist; acoustic, electric & acoustic + electronics
- Designer & Maker of instruments & installations
- Qualified teacher with 20 years’ experience in education
- Started Noisy Toys in 2007, but still has not yet dominated the global noise market.
Olivia Rhoden – Liv for Science
Silliness and Science on tap. Liv loves the curious corners of the world and asking ‘why?’ to nearly everything. A passionate noise-maker and environment carer, noisy toys is the perfect place to make noise about why we should save the world from e-waste and make a racket while doing it!
Rachele Evaroa
A cultural producer, social entrepreneur and performer working at the intersection of community, creativity, and youth empowerment. With a strong track record in social enterprise, she has developed initiatives that use culture as a tool for social change. Alongside this, she has been a regularly gigging musician in the band Galivantes, and has set up her own venue for Grass Roots music, The Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester.
Black Cat
Our Cymatics specialist; Blackcat has been researching and demonstrating cymatics patterns with sound and music for several years, building her equipment during an artist residency at Bidston Observatory.
Yorgos – Georgios Stenos Frantzios
Yorgo is a sonic scavenger; a full-time explorer of hardware stores, kitchens and junkyards in quest for noise-making treasures. You can find out more about his work here.
