{"id":524,"date":"2014-03-19T23:56:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T23:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=524"},"modified":"2014-03-20T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T00:08:17","slug":"owl-project-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/making\/owl-project-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Owl project studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Owl<\/a><\/p>\n

While in Manchester I took the opportunity to visit my friends from the Owl Project<\/a> in their studio round the back of Piccadilly Station. Anthony Hall, Simon Whitemore and Steve Symons have scored a large space split in two sections: one dedicated to (mostly) wood fabrication, with a CNC router and some more traditional cutting tools, the other for brain work, electronics and small scale projects.<\/p>\n

The space contains several of Owl Project’s FLOW<\/a> installation instruments. FLOW was commissioned by Cultural Olympiads fund in 2012, and installed on the Tyne River in Newcastle UK for several months. Mounted on a specially designed floating platform, a water wheel activated several beautifully crafted wood and electronics instruments that analysed water samples and generated sound accordingly.<\/p>\n

I also saw a few solar-powered iLogs (if you want to make one, there is an iLog workshop <\/a>coming soon) and current work on various synths, sequencers and light spectrometers. The Owl project are currently developing new work during a residency in Manchester Museum.<\/p>\n\n\t\t