Studio Resident & audiovisual artist Leon Trimble joins us for this talk to discuss his project & latest invention, The Gravity Synth, developed in collaboration with University of Birmingham.

The Gravity Synth is a musical instrument combining the instrumentation used to detect gravitational waves, and a modular synthesiser. The experimentation with the scientific and musical equipment has been a collaboration between researchers at the Gravitational Wave Institute at University of Birmingham and audiovisual artist Leon Trimble. This has been, not only in terms of research, signal flow or simply even of construction, a parallel journey for both in terms of how science takes a subject and turns it into data and relates it to a wider public, and how art does a similar thing for an audience, with a concept and a medium.

Leon Trimble is a digital artist who works in audio visual performance. He specialises in immersive video and synth design. He owns a 360 degree projection dome with surround speaker array and runs it as a venue at English summer festivals with an exciting programme of music and visual artists.

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