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Review of 2019

It’s been another incredible and overwhelming year, and I’ve added more highlights to my career. There has been a huge variety of projects and I’ve got to work with some incredible artists, including Bec Hill, Matt Parker and Norman Cook(!) Laser Light Synths But it kicked off in January with a new iteration of one […]

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Laser Light Synths wins ILDA Award

The latest incarnation of my Laser Light Synths project was installed in February at Middlesbrough Town Hall, and of course this time we added more lasers than ever before! The original version of this project (in 2014 believe it or not) had a single powerful laser to project graphics behind each custom-built synthesiser. But this […]

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Lasers for Fatboy Slim

Thanks so much to The Old Market and Norman Cook for inviting me to provide lasers at last week’s fundraising event. We filled the venue with 11W RGB lasers, somewhat overpowered for this venue to be honest, but the results were quite spectacular. As you might know, I write all of my own custom laser […]

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Review of 2018

This year has been overwhelming and exciting and it’s probably been the most varied one so far. The stand-out experience was at The Albert Hall for Space Shambles where I shared the stage with an actual Apollo astronaut who played a massive version of Lunar Lander, laser projected onto a 25m wide screen.  But there have been […]

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Lightning projects take home TWO awards!

After 5 years of working with lasers, it seems that I have now been accepted by the wider laserist community! The International Laser Display Association (ILDA) have honoured me in their awards ceremony in Montreal, as part of their annual conference. My awards are in their Innovative and Art category, second prize for Lightning Catchers […]

Choreocracy

Choreographer Tim Casson and I met in 2014 and have been experimenting with interactive dance techniques ever since. Early in 2018 we got an Arts Council grant to finish R&D and put a new show on the road. And choreocracy was born! It’s a truly interactive show, audience members affect what is happening in real […]

Lightning Strikes

Winner of the International Laser Display Association Innovation and Art Award 2018! Lightning Strikes; a large scale laser-projection project that recreates various electrical effects around the facade of the building. Electric arcs crackle and spark, Jacob’s Ladders rise up the tower, and of course there’ll be lightning! The electric effects discharge across the building, emitting […]

Mindfulness Machine

The Mindfulness Machine is a robot that likes to colour-­in. It’s an exploration into a future where the AIs will need to chill out just as much as we do. It spends its days doodling and colouring-in, making artistic decisions based on its mood. And its mood, in turn, is based on a complex number […]

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Astronauts, lasers, and music at the Royal Albert Hall

I still can’t quite believe it, but last week I shared the stage at the Royal Albert Hall with astronauts Rusty Schweickart and Commander Chris Hadfield. You might know Chris from his popular twitter stream during his stint as commander of the International Space Station, including his performance of David Bowie’s Space Oddity. And you […]

Hacked On Classics

Seb’s new stage show gives 80s gadgets the ultimate firmware upgrade! “Straight out of my pew-pew-pew dreams” – Vice CDs, arcade games, VHS tapes, twin cassette recorders… the 80s brought microchips into our homes for the very first time, spawning a whole generation of tech nerds and bedroom coders. Hacked on Classics unravels all the […]