{"id":44,"date":"2019-04-07T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2019-04-07T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:30:07","slug":"sound","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/?page_id=44","title":{"rendered":"Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Mechanical Choir<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"659\" src=\"http:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-Mechanical-Choir-Fell-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-Mechanical-Choir-Fell-2019.jpg 886w, https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-Mechanical-Choir-Fell-2019-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-Mechanical-Choir-Fell-2019-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-Mechanical-Choir-Fell-2019-676x503.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mechanical Choir is singing 24\/7 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mechanicalchoir.uk\">www.mechanicalchoir.uk<\/a>. It is made up of workers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mturk.com\/\">Amazon Mechanical Turk<\/a>. I gave them each a dollar to sing a few words to a few notes, then stitched these together to make Amazing Grace. I thought it might make the sound of the gig economy. What do you reckon? Try listening through a few different versions. It&#8217;s nice to start recognising the individuals. There is more info on the project <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mikefsway\/conducting-the-mechanical-choir-8f8e23d464\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mechanical Choir performed in a box at the Ugly Duck <a href=\"http:\/\/uglyduck.org.uk\/portfolio_page\/anamorphic\/\">Anamorphic Waves<\/a> exhibition 11-14 April 2019, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grid Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pW6CcF4bhUU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This video presents UK national electricity use data in the form of sound. I converted half-hourly data for January 2013 into beeps with frequency determined by the size of the demand. I recorded the output, then played around with pitch and speed and added some reverb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grid Music featured in the exhibition &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/exhibitions\/W31vkCkAACkAP6LL\">Electricity: The Spark of Life<\/a>&#8221; at the Wellcome Collection in London (February to June 2017), which then travelled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teylersmuseum.nl\/en\/visiting-the-museum\/what-is-there-to-see-and-do\/electricity-the-spark-of-life\">Teylers Museum<\/a> (Haarlem, Netherlands, July 2017 to January 2018) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk\/whats-on\/electricity\">Science and Industry Museum<\/a>, Manchester (October 2018 to April 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mechanical Choir The Mechanical Choir is singing 24\/7 at www.mechanicalchoir.uk. It is made up of workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. I gave them each a dollar to sing a few words to a few notes, then stitched these together to make Amazing Grace. I thought it might make the sound of the gig economy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikefell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}