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As mentioned previously, I had been playing with the sounds a ceramic form can make for quite some time. I was excited to have the chance to make a number of bells with which I could experiment with sound further and more deeply. I began making bell forms almost immediately in order to have some […]

Early on in the project I wanted to make a structure to house the bells which would be approachable, in some way familiar, so that people would automatically feel comfortable with engaging with it. In my mind I had a greenhouse structure envisioned as it seemed a place where people go to nurture plants and […]

Robotic beaters The second task to work on was the development of the striking mechanism for the ceramic bells which would give a good sound.  I knew something about how clay sounds when it is hit as I had been playing the sounds of pots since college days, when I stumbled across this after a bad […]

Motion Capture The development of the system to capture the motion of the speakers as they presented their research was done in collaboration with the Met Office Informatics Lab. The Informatics Lab is a diverse group of programmers, data scientists, and scientists who work on protoyping projects at the Met Office to explore new ways […]