This week Amy Rose and Laura Kriefman have been building exciting things for Glastonbury, nu desine have been making a world record attempt and Kaspar has been working on Tiddlybot robot kits for children.

Residents Amy Rose and Laura Kriefman have both been building installations for the Greenpeace field at the Glastonbury festival. Amy has been constructing a massive replica of the Arctic Sunrise ship, with headphones on the deck through which you can listen to 6 members of the Arctic 30 tell their stories.  Laura meanwhile has been soldering a huge network of neopixels together for an installation involving 140 undulating bioluminescent jellyfish. They will both be writing blogs about the installations soon.

Studio Resident and founder of Reach Robotics Silas Adekunle is currently making a splash in California as part of the Technology Strategy Board’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Mission, featuring robotic designs and prototypes from eight British companies. Harry Gee (Tiddlybot – see below) will also be joining Silas in California.
Watch this video about the trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXScGVgYhg0

Studio Resident Kaspar has been working on the hardware and software for some of Harry Gee’s robot kits for kids. The Tiddlybot project is currently gathering support on Kickstarter, have a look below:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1320310506/tiddlybot-fun-and-simple-raspberry-pi-robot

With 21 days left to go Arthur and Seth’s ‘Colourstory’ Kickstarter campaign is already 67% funded.  Help them to reach their goal and get your own Colourstory print as a reward.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/78652923/colourstory-your-life-in-colour

Mandy Rose and Future Documentary Sandbox project Quipu have made their way to Sunny Side of the Doc festival in La Rochelle, France, for an ‘interactive factual’ pitching session.
http://www.sunnysideofthedoc.com/sunnyside/2014-pitch-selection/

Nu desine will be taking the AlphaSphere to a couple of festivals this summer, using it to control sound effects for games activities and DJ at Secret Garden Party and putting on interactive workshops in the Prohibition den at Boom Town.

Following Adam Place’s lunchtime talk last Friday, nu desine announced that they wanted the audience to help them break the world record for the number of people playing an instrument at once. The current record is 16 people on a piano but Friday’s attempt managed 35 playing the Alphasphere.  Nu desine are currently preparing for an official attempt and in contact with Guinness.

The first ever BetaLoop tests are  taking place in the Studio on Friday afternoon, playing live music in two separate rooms at different ends of Watershed. Connected together and connected to the internet, BetaLoop enables musicians around the world to share and collaborate on their ideas in real time: http://www.react-hub.org.uk/betaloops/

Nu desine will be at NIME Conference: The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression next week, presenting their paper on the Alphasphere and giving demos.
http://alphasphere.com/AlphaSphereNIMEpaper2014.pdf

José Antonio Palao Errando, who visited the Studio last Summer, wrote about resident Tim Kindberg’s Nth Screen Software in Coll Blanc 5 (in Spanish...) bit.ly/1qIszko