Come and play on our amazing mechanised instruments.
This event must be booked in advance.
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/events/adults/lates
Events
26 June – Big Bang Yorkshire & Humber, Bass in Your Face
Bass in your Face shows performed by Steve Summers throughout the day:
Noisy Toys invented bass in 1997 and since then it has proven very popular, but why does it make us feel so good? To find out we will fill the space with lovely bass vibrations using our hacked hard drive bass generators. This will send lentils flying, puff out clouds of flour and turn corn flour into dancing goop. We will take a tour of the frequency spectrum from gut-shaking bass to nasty squeaky treble and discover at what point our ears conk out (bad news there, adults).
This is not a passive stage show! Brave participants will be required for a Nose Test, as well as opportunities to volunteer to come on the stage to help with demonstrations. Everyone will have a chance to become participants at the end in the infamous ‘Bass Buzz’ (feel 1000 watts of bass power through your fingers). Everyone can also get a close-up look at the mysterious Cymatics patterns produced by sound in water and the non-Newtonian Goop monsters dancing to the bass; they too like to boogie to the funky bass BOOOOM!
Themes of the show
– Electromagnetism as related to loudspeaker design and music technology
– Music as a wave signal that is reproduced through various energy conversions
– Bass as a powerful musical effect, produced by electronic or acoustic instruments
– vibrations of different materials and acoustics
– wave properties, longitudinal & latitudinal waves
27 June Big Bang South East- Bass in your Face
Date: 27th June 2018
Bass in your Face shows performed by Steve Summers throughout the day:
Noisy Toys invented bass in 1997 and since then it has proven very popular, but why does it make us feel so good? To find out we will fill the space with lovely bass vibrations using our hacked hard drive bass generators. This will send lentils flying, puff out clouds of flour and turn corn flour into dancing goop. We will take a tour of the frequency spectrum from gut-shaking bass to nasty squeaky treble and discover at what point our ears conk out (bad news there, adults).
This is not a passive stage show! Brave participants will be required for a Nose Test, as well as opportunities to volunteer to come on the stage to help with demonstrations. Everyone will have a chance to become participants at the end in the infamous ‘Bass Buzz’ (feel 1000 watts of bass power through your fingers). Everyone can also get a close-up look at the mysterious Cymatics patterns produced by sound in water and the non-Newtonian Goop monsters dancing to the bass; they too like to boogie to the funky bass BOOOOM!
Themes of the show
– Electromagnetism as related to loudspeaker design and music technology
– Music as a wave signal that is reproduced through various energy conversions
– Bass as a powerful musical effect, produced by electronic or acoustic instruments
– vibrations of different materials and acoustics
– wave properties, longitudinal & latitudinal waves
10 July – Audio Assault Buggy, Big Bang North West
Date: 10th July 2018
Back again to test noses, carrots, miscalaneous things that other stalls have given away, and to generally run amok in the largest regional Big Bang event in the country.
Explore the strange acoustics of the objects around you with our contact microphones, make laser blasts with a slinky, test some more noses, experiment with our entropic noise engines, connect the circuits; can you create meachnical samba beats?
21-22 July -Bradford Science Festival; Audio Assault Buggy
Start date: 21st July 2018
End date: 22nd July 2018
Location: Broadway, Braford
Nose Testing and other strange and noisy participatory experiments all weekend.
Our family weekend of surprising science in the city is back for 2018—and this year it’s all about the wonder of engineering.
At the museum, across City Park and at The Broadway Bradford, we’ll be offering activities, demos and games for all the family to get involved in—plus some amazing special guests.
Take a look at the programme below, and watch out for more announcements soon!
25-26 August Asylum Steampunk Festival, Lincoln
Start date: 25th August 2018
End date: 26th August 2018
Time: 11-4 each day
Location: TBC
Audio Assault Buggy & dangerously exciting demonstrations of the practical consequences of Natural Philosophy.
The Asylum Steampunk Festival is the largest and longest running steampunk festival in the Solar System, attracting participants from around the globe. It takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend in the historic City of Lincoln.
For four glorious days the historic streets of Lincoln are thronged with thousands of splendidly dressed steampunks enjoying a festival which strives to combine art, literature, music, fashion, comedy and simple good fun.
22-23 Sept – Festival of Thrift, Redcar, Middlesbrough; Scavengers workshops
Start date: 22nd September 2018
End date: 23rd September 2018
Location: Kirkleatham, Redcar, TS10 5NW
We will be returning to the fantastic Festival of Thrift with more Scavenging creation/destruction!
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