News
Coach tickets now available for booking
We’re very glad to have just opened bookings for cheap coach returns to Dungeness for visitors to Variable 4. Departure is scheduled from London Victoria at 11am, Saturday 22 May, and returning at 6pm in the evening, with a journey time of around 2 hours each way. We hope that this will also provide ample time to explore the local area and say hello to the RNLI crew, who will be manning the nearby station.
Tickets can be booked here using PayPal, for £7.50 return. Visiting the installation is, of course, free.
The coach won’t, unfortunately, be one of these splendid Routemasters, but we couldn’t resist posting this photograph nonetheless.
8tracks
Whilst taking a short break from the logistics of Variable 4, we decided to put together a playlist of some of the music we have been listening to over the last few months to share with you.
We’re big fans of the 8tracks aesthetic and idea, which picks up from where its sorely missed predecessor Muxtape left off.
Have a listen to our Variable 4 8track mix here and let us know what you think.
one month to go! invites going out to post shortly, dm or email us your postal address if you’d like one.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
from @bldgblog on the weather system of microscopic glass shards generated by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull: http://bit.ly/951osD
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
a tour of KEF: weatherproof speakers, echo chambers, and the $140k hifi. http://bit.ly/aqJZcD
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
KEF tour
To Maidstone this morning, visiting the Kent Engineering Foundry – better known as KEF – who invited us down to discuss weatherproof speakers. As a top name amongst the audiophile community, we were looking forward to auditioning their Ventura outdoor range as a candidate for next month’s installation. What we hadn’t anticipated was a comprehensive tour of their facilities, encompassing a museum of KEF’s engineering achievements since the 1960s, plus their Acoustic Laboratory, featuring anechoic chamber and all manner of analysis equipment.
Aside from their plaudits in the engineering world, we’re really pleased to be able to work with local technology: KEF’s home is just 40 miles down the road from Dungeness, in Maidstone, Kent, where they’ve been located since their inception in 1961.
sounds like @RNLI Dungeness had a callout just a few hours after we met them on sunday: http://bit.ly/casKcK
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Development trip, 11 April 2010
A constructive Sunday on the coast, meeting the team from RNLI Dungeness – who are supporting Variable 4 with infrastructure and local know-how – and making some speculative field recordings.
following a wonderful meetup with @RNLI Dungeness, this outbuilding is set to house our hardware. whoop! http://twitpic.com/1ew7jx
Sunday, 11 April 2010
@ceciliawee yes indeed, of all kinds – incl a great interview & some submerged ambience. will post clips shortly.
Sunday, 11 April 2010
first outdoor speaker tests. results v promising despite buffeting wind! http://twitpic.com/1ev2mx
Sunday, 11 April 2010
beautiful image of the third of five dungeness lighthouses, constructed in 1884 from corrugated metal http://twitpic.com/1et7r2
Sunday, 11 April 2010
one homemade hydrophone, accompanying us today to record the dungeness shoreline http://twitpic.com/1eszdo
Sunday, 11 April 2010
50 years since the launch of TIROS-1, the world’s first weather satellite http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100401_tiros.html
Saturday, 3 April 2010
“Symphonies of Wind Turbines”, a radio piece on wind turbines from r3’s Between The Ears http://bit.ly/cMtUHa (thanks to @speechification)
Saturday, 3 April 2010
live antarctic undersea audio broadcasts from the PALAOA acoustic observatory http://bit.ly/12zxAr (via @ideoforms)
Friday, 2 April 2010
guide to building a blindingly simple DIY hydrophone. can you guess what’s planned for the next dungeness journey? http://bit.ly/au6Pog
Friday, 2 April 2010
leaving brixton village’s Remade workshop after a session with the geopiano, a piano-sculpture by Rashad Selim http://twitpic.com/1agu75
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
leaving brixton village’s Remade workshop from recording the geopiano, a piano-sculpture by Rashad Selim http://twitpic.com/1agu75
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
xeno-canto: a fantastic public database of recorded bird sounds, browsable by map, location and species. http://www.xeno-canto.org/europe/
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Scores from “Notations” (1969)
“Notations” (1969) is a collection of one-page musical manuscripts collected by John Cage and Alison Knowles and documented via chance operations produced with the I-Ching. Having never been reprinted, it’s exorbitantly expensive to obtain a copy of, but the wonderful people at UBU Web have made available a pdf copy.
David Bedford - Scientific American Piece for John Tilbury
George Cacioppo- Cassiopeia
Graciela Castillo - El Pozo
Udo Kasemets - Timepiece For A Solo Performer
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