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Installations

limpet sculpture

Interactive, playful inventions that produce interesting sounds, encourage people to experiment and make them smile.


Acousatron

A terrifying, Interactive, Upcycled Noise Contraption.

The Acousatron is our largest and longest-running installation. Find out more about this incredible mechanacoustical instrument here.

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Sub-Flutter

New installation currently in R&D, ready for bookings in Spring 2027.

An interactive sound and cymatics installation: powerful bass tones and wildly fluctuating patterns of light. Visitors and musicians control the sounds, dissonant stomach throb to harmonious resolution. Dancing spectral patterns of laser light diffracted by sound vibrations.


Gush Trickle

A playful and interactive sound-sculpture model of the water cycle.

2010 – Thames festival – House of Fairy Tales  2018 – Landlines and Watermarks- 509 Arts 
2025 – Iron People – Northern Broadsides

Find out more about the Gurgle Splosher here.


Green Planet

A sculpture made from upcycled circuit boards, with interactive sound and light features.

The Green Planet is not lush with vegetation, it’s surface is completely covered with the detritus of consumer-electronics.

Find out more about the Green Planet here.


Bespoke installations

Site or event-specific installations, using interactive controllers and often (but not exclusively) built from upcycled e-waste.

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New features & activities

Cymatics – NEW INSTALLATION (in development) sound patterns

Quantum Noise – accessible music improvisation & quantum physics; show & activity

Noisy Neurons – neurons & brain function; installation & workshop

Unboxing – anti consumerist Hardware Hacking

 

Audio Assault Buggy

Buggy-Blue Dot 2019

Making workshop: Design, Build, Code, Battle

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Events/News

27 June – Sonic Arts Week, Middlesbrough

4-5 July Festival of Making, Blackburn

24-26 July Deershed Festival

21-23 Aug – Green Man Festival, Einstein’s Garden

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Year 4 Sound & Circuits

Media Museum workshops

Activities- quick jump

Acousatron – facilitated interactive installation
Quantum Noise – music & quantum physics
Bass Buzz – participatory demonstrations
Cymatics – participatory demonstrations
Scavengers – workshops
Nose Test – science busking
Walkabout – participatory walkabout
Bass in your Face – show
60 Million Tonnes – show
Buggy Battles – coding & Making workshop
Oobleck – participatory demonstrations

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