Cave of sounds

AN AWARD WINNING interactive instalLation

Martin Scheuregger, Curator at Google Cultural Institute

“Cave of Sounds is one of the most successful examples of an interactive installation I’ve ever seen”.

Cave of Sounds creates an experience of curiosity, play and energy. It aims to capture the excitement and energy we imagine of prehistoric musical rituals around a fire, an active collaboration between people exploring new social practices and technologies of self-expression.

Each of these electronic instruments - which can be played with movement, light, shadow and touch - feed into a centralised computer that keeps everything in key and on beat. No musical experience is needed to participate, which allows for an open flow of ideas and creativity.

Exhibitions

2023 / MUSEO NAZIONALE DELLA SCIENZA E DELLA TECNOLOGIA LEONARDO DA VINCI. MILAN

2021 / MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY. ADELAIDE

2018 / WATERMANS ARTS CENTRE. LONDON

2018 / ATHENS SCIENCE FESTIVAL. ATHENS

2018 / MUSIC HACKSPACE AT SOMERSET HOUSE STUDIOS. LONDON

2016 / VILLAGE UNDERGROUND. LONDON

2015 / WATERLOO INNOVATION SUMMIT. CANADA

2014 / 90DB FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE ARTI SONORE. ROME

2013 / WATERMANS ARTS CENTRE. LONDON

2013 / VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. LONDON

2013 / BARBICAN. LONDON

2013 / MUSIC TECH FEST. LONDON

  • Campanology - Dom Aversano

    Generative rhythms derived through the mathematics of church bell ringing patterns, controlled through free movement of your hands using a 3D camera.

    Generative Net Sampler - Tadeo Sendon

    Experimental audio samples, created from digital field recordings of the internet, are triggered as you move through invisible cylindrical trigger zones, detected using a 3D camera.

    Joker - Wallace Hobbes

    A punchy drum kit you play by wearing a mask and tapping your fingers onto conductive tape.

    Lightefface - Kacper Ziemianin

    A deep drone you control by shining lamps over 24 light sensors, each of which modulates the intensity of a different harmonic of a fundamental frequency.

    Mini-Theremin - Susanna Garcia

    Using hand gestures, you control a DIY theremin running through a pitch-tracker, turning it into a controller to mangle noise synthesis.

    Sonicsphere - Panagiotis Tigas

    A palm-sized sphere with an embedded wireless gyroscope that you can use to warp and charter spaces of heavy digital timbres.

    The Animal Kingdom - Daniel Lopez

    A world of sounds you awaken and shepherd by casting hand shadows in the shape of animals onto a table top, which are read and interpreted by an interior camera.

    Wind - Tim Murray-Browne

    A breathy flute sound you play by moving your hands around your body through a grid of harmonious notes, sensed using a 3D camera.

  • Tim Murray-Browne - Director (Wind)

    Tim Murray-Browne is an artist and creative coder based in London. As artist in residence with the Music Hackspace, he has led Cave of Sounds project from conception to completion.

    Dom Aversano - (Campanology)

    Dom Aversano is a handpan player and composer. His music experiments with the rhythmic algorithms of South Indian classical music, and exploring it in relation to geometry and western harmony.

     

    Susanna Garcia - (Mini- Theremin)

    Susanna Garcia and Borja Alexandre create together since 2008. They started their collaboration within the artist’s group Sonom, developing installations, AV performances, music and video works. In 2012 they co-founded Mind the Film, bringing together their passion for filmmaking and the arts.

    Wallace Hobbes - (Joker)

    Wallace Hobbes is an AI Engineer and music enthusiast who designs immediate inclusive experiences exploring human-human interactions.

    Daniel Lopez - (Animal Kingdom)

    Daniel Lopez is a programmer from London, UK with a longtime interest in music, games and the interplay between them.

    Tadeo Sendon - (Generative Net Sampler)

    Tadeo Sendon‘s work attempts to explore the practical crossroad between culture and the contemporary digital based environments. Through research based projects, his interest is to understand and capture modern technology with sonic and concept art finalisations.

    Panagiotis Tigas - (Sonicsphere)

    Panagiotis Tigas is a computer scientist obsessed with music, arts and the universe.

    Kacper Ziemianin - (Lightefface)

    Kacper Ziemianin a.k.a. Ctrl Freq Circuit bender, sonologist, vagabond, improviser, music producer, audio-hacker, instrument designer, nomad, radio presenter, workshop leader, squatter, soon-to-be a published writer. He is happy to have earned a higher education diploma. He has performed here and there with this and another. His projects have won awards and have been presented in many places across the globe.

  • Terry Tyldesley / Producer

    Anastasia Alekseeva / Production assistant

    Harry Murdoch / Production assistant

    Hela Dondertman / Set designer Sets Appeal

    Sophie Jacobs / Set designer Sets Appeal

    Bridget Murton / Set designer Sets Appeal

    EXHIBITION TEAM

    Jan Lee

    Chrisanthi Livadiotis

    Ben Koppelman

    Kevin Blankenship

    Mim Briggs

    Javier Carles

    Joshua Gardner

    Georgia Grant

    Ting-an Lin

    Lia Mice

    Sabrina Recoules

    Florian Stagliano

    Kasia Uscinska

    Adriana Minu

    Kevin Murray

    Niall Black

    James Gardner

    Andrew Kirkby.

    PHOTOGRAPHY

    Suzi Corker

    Lucia Molina Pflaum

    And members of the Cave of Sounds team.

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