Category Archives: Process

The Emotion Meter

Yesterday we successfully managed to control a 100 year old, school volt meter from a laptop. I said it couldn’t be done. Simon said it could. Simon says: “wow”.
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How to restore an Orchestrion

Michael Bennett Levy (of Early Technology) explains how he restored an Orchestrion.
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Visit to Early Technology

On Saturday 29 November we took a trip to Old Craighall, near Musselburgh just outside Edinburgh on a reconnaissance mission for parts to build Cybraphon. We had received a tip-off from an Edinburgh junk shop owner that there was a man called Michael Bennett Levy who ran a business out there called Early Technology. Michael [...]
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Work Begins

Work finally begins on Cybraphon as we start our microresidency down at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Simon and Ziggy will be working there for a month on the first phase of the project: developing a self-playing farfisa organ.
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