Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton

              

Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton is a feature-length film about Stones Throw's story of celebration, loss and progression. Released on the 26th May, the film follows Stone Throw's founder, Peanut Butter Wold along with interviews and performance clips from Questlove, J Dilla, Snoop to name a 'modest' few... Along with unreleased music from Madlib which is to be released on the soundtrack with the DVD 

Augmented Acoustics

             

As part of research work for Interactive Architecture Lab, Felix Faire presents an acoustic installation that allows any hard, flat surface to become a musical and visual interface.

LEAP motion gesture control allows sounds to be played and manipulated by hand, the phrase is looped by Faire creating a beautifully textured composition. 

Music For Forgotten Places

Requiem for a Ruined Home

Nocturne for a Hidden Patch

            

Music for Forgotten Places is a celebration of non-places and the journey of exploration and discovery. Created by Oliver Blank, a composer from New Orleans, who creates sound toys (iPhone apps) and public installations, permitting residents to interact with sound. At each lost landmark the explorer can discover the hand-made wooden sign, each engraved with a unique phone number. If they choose to call the number a piece of specially composed music will play.

'Requiem for a Ruined Home' is the only composition you can preview. Only by visiting the lost landmark and calling the number are you able to listen to the compositions, which only strengthens the relationship to the forgotten place and the composition.

Edale

These pictures were taken during our last trip down to Edale. A great place for taking long walks and to get away for the afternoon. We misjudged the timing on this occasion, descending through a field full of sleeping sleep in the pitch black... It all added to the fun.

Condiment Junkie // A Quick Guide to Sensory Drinking

          

The Singleton Sensorium from Condiment Junkie.

                   

                   


Condiment Junkie, a sonic branding and experimental sound design company, created multi-sensory environments for whiskey brand The Singleton, backed up with their latest published research study 'Assessing the influence of the multisensory environment on the whisky drinking experience'.

They suggest that you can alter your taste experiences at home by altering sound, materials, colour and smells. You can do this at home by listening to their specially formulated compositions and following a few steps from their blog.

Battel Box - Robert Del Naja

                     

  Battle Box on Nowness.com

HAY

We visited the Danish furniture design shop Hay a few times when in Copenhagen. It's such a great shop, one of them you can wonder around time after time. Our apartment Stay was kitted out by Hay (a bit of a mouthful) and our love for Hay design pieces grew from there.