Posted on Sun 3 Apr 2011
It was a cold, moonless night..... strike that- cold, moonless morning...strike that- by the time we'd fully awoken and gotten to Bristol it was a bright, shiny and sparkly world. We've just finished our first week at the PM Studio. And I couldn't be more excited. I don't know whether it's just…
Posted on Sat 2 Apr 2011
I meet with Tom on a Saturday morning at my place. He is armed with cake and recording equipment. I make tea and have a growing sense of just how little I know about creative technology. I ask him if he minds that we do not use the word 'platform' - I want it banned from our conversations. He nods…
Posted on Thu 31 Mar 2011
Experimenting with music through IP phone lines proves to be even more disillusioning than Emilie and Duncan anticipated. At least the compression/filtering systems create the kind of sound processing that electronic musicians dream of... Catch up with Duncan and Emilie's NiMK blog to find out more.
Posted on Thu 31 Mar 2011
Duncan and Emilie get stuck into tackling and comparing new services, including Tropo and Twilio, and find themselves surprised by the extend of 'twitter baiting' going on, especially with new competing start-up companies. Have a look at their NiMK blog if you are curious to hear about their…
Posted on Thu 31 Mar 2011
Emilie and Duncan's project development leads them to researching realtime sound processing options, including rjdj, the most known and commercially available realtime sound processing ‘experienc
Posted on Thu 31 Mar 2011
After the varied workshops they ran at 5daysoff and during their NiMK residency, Duncan and Emilie revisited their initial conceptual frameworks and questions, including: - What’s the difference between privacy and intimacy?- What does it mean to work with a phonecall?- What are the assumptions we…
Posted on Thu 24 Mar 2011
The iShed team just returned from taking eleven creative producers to South By Southwest Interactive 2011. SXSW is one of the leading interactive festivals worldwide, featuring five days of conferencing, networking and exhibiting, with a focus on showcasing the latest ideas around emerging…
Posted on Wed 23 Mar 2011
Thanks to the Creative Producers development scheme I was able to attend the SXSW 2011 conference with an incredible group from across the UK. A common theme in the sxsw sessions I most enjoyed was making use of large amounts of data. In "All These Worlds Are Yours: Visualizing Space Data" Douglas…
Posted on Mon 21 Mar 2011
We are delighted to announce the recipients of Watershed’s Artists Residency 2011 programme, funded by Arts Council England. Earlier this year, we launched a call for ideas by South West artists, that set out to explore the intersection of art, pervasive technologies and culture. There were two…
Posted on Fri 18 Mar 2011
Duncan and Emilie received a beautiful description of how their work was experienced. Find Martha's literary description at the 'We Are Forests' NiMK blog.
