Empty Stomach at ISEA 2009

Empty Stomach should be shown outside the Waterfront centre in Belfast next week, Thursday 27th and Friday 28th August, during the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2009. It has been quite a struggle with the Health and Safety authorities, so let's see if all goes well - keeping fingers crossed.…

New wireless system tested at Eurocultured

We have developed a new sensor data collection system using the wireless Bluetooth Arduino microcontroller boards. Three 3-axis (XYZ) accelerometers (ADXL3 from Spark Fun) were connected to the analogue input pins on the Arduino (X and Y axes only per accelerometer). The accelerometers were positioned near each of the three…

Empty Stomach premieres at Eurocultured 2009, Manchester!

Andy and Merja’s latest interactive bouncy sculpture “...Empty Stomach!” premiered at Manchester’s Eurocultured Festival over the May Bank Holiday weekend. Beautiful weather on the Sunday ensured the crowds a great day, and “...Empty Stomach!” enjoyed great success on its first public appearance. Young and old alike were fascinated by the…

Too Much of a Mouthful premiered at PPP

Andy & Merja officially premiered their newly commisioned work "Too Much of a Mouthful" at the Portable Pixel Playground event hosted by Lanternhouse International, Ulverston, Cumbria, Uk. The piece is an interactive bouncy castle, with flex sensors sending movement data via a Basic Stamp to Max/MSP patches generating sounds -…

Laughing My Guts Out

A fun physical sonic sensation, combining huge cartoon-like guts made with "bouncy castle" technique, with interactive electronic sensors driving an audio soundscape derived from 8-bit computer games sounds. Children (& childminded adults) jump and dive amongst the guts while triggering and creating the sounds in real time. The hysterical fun…