Tags: jokes, Laughlab, psychology of humour, Richard Wiseman, Sarah Angliss, science of humour, science of jokes, world's funniest joke
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Did you hear the one about the lady on the bus? Hear it on this soundtrack announcing the results of Laughlab – the scientific search for the ‘world’s funniest joke’.
Sarah Angliss is a musician, engineer and writer.
Her band Spacedog mixes theremin, vocals and laptops with Sarah's home-spun musical robots.
Uncanny Valley - a new live show from Spacedog, Prof. Elemental and assorted robot friends, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, 5 May 2010.
Electricity and Ghosts - live performance at Battersea Power Station (date tbc)
Spacedog play Hastings Museum and F-ish Gallery, 20 March 2010
Electricity and Ghosts preview at the Kinetica Art Fair, 5-7 February 2010
Shift Run Stop - podcast interview, January 2010 Demo at Dorkbot Recording live onto a wax cylinder, using an original Edison phonograph, Catalyst Club, Brighton, 10 December 2009 Clog dancing as early noise music, with Caroline Radcliffe, Central, London, 4 December 2009 Robin Ince's Darwin birthday bash Transfer New multimodal effect, in collaboration with Punchdrunk
Sleigh ride (Troika), from Prokovief's Lieutenant Kije, played on the robotic bells
This bell rig is regularly used in live performance - this is the Mk III version, built December 2008.