Gene Pool - Digital Culture

Gene Pool - Digital Culture


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Gene Pool#41: Audiograft
March 10, 2011

Crowd-funding, Ray Lee’s new installation “Murmer” and Steven Cornford’s piano-bashing and benching-dragging performance at Oxford Brookes annual sonic arts festival, Audiograft, all under discussion as Felicity Ford emerges from deep cover to hi

Gene Pool#40: I/O Artist Residency
February 25, 2011

The Art of the Handmade, from clothes to tech explored with artist, Thea Stallwood. The Gene Pool show hits 40 in this episode, where we talk to the current artist participant on our I/O Artist Residency Scheme. The I/O Scheme provides opportunity for ar

Gene Pool#39: Simon Whetham
February 19, 2011

Icelandic sagas and sounds from Pontoon Hotels in Thailand are among the pieces played during our Invisible Jukebox with globe-trotting sound artist, Simon Whetham in this episode. We spoke with Simon during the week when he was setting up his exhibition

Gene Pool#38: Creative Radio II
February 06, 2011

Sonic interventions, acoustic architecture and urban sounds of control are some of the audio projects being pursued for our forthcoming series of Framework:Afield shows on Resonance FM. We met with all of the contributing artists at the Royal Festival Hal

Gene Pool#37: Dark Net
December 19, 2010

Alternative internet, Freenet installed and discussed during this final show of our Autumn season on Soundart Radio 102.5FM, alongside a peek into the sonic doors in Sound Diaries "Sonic Advent Calendar" project. Presented by Martin Franklin & Felicity

Gene Pool#36: Sound Transit
December 10, 2010

With the looming closure of the sonic airline-themed web project, Sound Transit, we book one last journey via this imaginative web site, which is the brainchild of artist, Derek Holzer. Programme presented by Martin Franklin and Felicity Ford More: www.

Gene Pool#35: Theremin Day
November 27, 2010

Theremin Day was a sold out workshop day where participants built a 6 oscillator, photo-optic, sci-fi drone machine from electronic components, under the guidance of Mr. Underwood. This episode includes audio from the completed optical Theremin projects,

Gene Pool#34: Hidden Sounds
November 23, 2010

The hidden world of audio vibrations in buildings, environment, objects, interior and exterior locations revealed. Based on our very own "DIY Contact Mic" workshop day, we talk about the what and how of building your own contact mic, before auditioning so

Gene Pool#33: Underground/Overground
November 15, 2010

From the Victorian Sewers of Brighton to Ocean Drive in Miami, we present sonic artefacts from our sound-hunting expeditions. Amazing 3D binaural audio from a tour of the underground tunnel system below Brighton and nature and nightlife from bustling Miam

Gene Pool#32: Electronics for Artists
November 06, 2010

The maker of Southwold Pier's Cycle Pong, Iain Sharpe leads a weekend mixing electronics theory with it's creative application. Throw in an Arduino micro-processor, and you've got a programmable sound and light sequencer. We hear interviews and atmospher