Here are some snapshots of the Ealing Feeder – the latest version of my carillon (automatic bell rig), along with some details of the thinking behind the piece.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Arthertz stand at the Kinetica Art Fair and said ‘hello’. The Ealing Feeder survived admirably and is now back in my workshop until its next outing. Coming soon to the Brighton Festival Fringe and Battersea Power Station…

I’ll be showing off the Ealing Feeder, the latest version of my carillon (automatic bell-playing rig) at the Kinetica Art Fair, P3 Gallery, 35 Marylebone Road, London, 5-7 February 2010.

The words Ealing Feeder come from the control room of Battersea Power Station, which provided London with electricity during the boom years of the fossil fuel age…

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I’ll be bringing along Spin Recovery, a small, experimental installation, involving robotic bells, cameras and video projections, to Brighton’s first SoundCurious event. Update 11 October: My appearance has been postponed by the venue – I hope to see you there at a later date!

Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Punchdrunk, the marvellous encounter theatre company, to make a very unusual multimodal effect – one that mixes emerging ideas in perception with a one-on-one theatrical encounter.

I’ll be revealing more about the nature of this effect in a few months, when some formal studies are complete. However, I can reveal we’ve piloted the effect – and have had some encouraging feedback – and have already used it (tentatively) in the recent Punchdrunk show: It Felt Like a Kiss. This show is a documentary, the form of a promenade piece, was devised by Punchdrunk in collaboration with documentary maker Adam Curtis (featuring music from Damon Albarn). It Felt Like A Kiss was created in summer 2009 for the Manchester International Festival.

Don’t read this entry if you’re about to eat your dindins. I created this sound effect for Bad Vibes, an exhibit I made for acoustician Trevor Cox to test people’s endurance of the worst sounds in the world.

Here’s a photographic gem from the Cold War archives, plus some very notable strips of Sellotope (they were used to hold the original Concorde ‘drop models’ together).

A mini, automatic puppet show in a shed, created on a shoestring budget for the South Bank Centre, summer 2007. The brief was to come up with something novel inside a garden shed that would celebrate the area and appeal to families.

Look into the radio mirror and put your hands on the founder’s tranquil balls to receive a personality reading with uncanny accuracy. This exhibit for the Cheltenham Science Festival (now on Southwold Pier) explored the tricks used by phoney psychics, recruitment consultants and other ‘cold readers’.

Jet Age to Genome was a small exhibition, celebrating British innovation from 1953-23.