An interactive app, enabling users to compose a visual score and explore relationships between sound, colour and harmony.
Each row of 16 cells represents a voice or part (i.e SATB) read left to right, with each subsequent row voiced an octave apart.
The 12-tone musical scale is mapped to a 12-tone colour spectrum. By selecting squares repeatedly users can cycle through colour-tones to construct their sequence.
An interactive web-VR environment created with A-Frame, featuring a chromatic 12-voice choir. The app user can activate multiple voices to construct and explore tonal harmony, while experiencing spatial sound as they navigate the virtual space.
Wave Machine (2.0) is a web-based interactive app that produces a live sonification of real-time sea wave data. Users can choose to listen to site data from a network of marine observation buoys located around the coast of England and Wales.
‘Arcade’ is a montage of recordings made at Dymchurch amusement park in Kent in the summer of 2021. The piece was originally created to augment an installation by the artist genuinefake at the Folkestone Triennial later that year, but was never used.
The piece was included in Radiophrenia‘s annual broadcast of works for radio in 2025.
The mysterious origins of the chalk-hill figure known locally as the Folkestone Elephant are explored through an immersive countryside walk using mobile Augmented Reality. The walk invites users to consider the importance of the landmark through a series of geo-located ‘found’ video clips and accompanying survey questions.
Visit flams.org.uk to take the walk and find out more.
Continue reading Have You Seen The Folkestone Elephant?An interactive sound map of room-tone recordings made from inside a selection of WWII ‘pillbox’ defences located around Folkestone town. Created in response to the Sound Diaries 2024 Open Call supported by the Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU), Oxford Brookes University.
