Title: Space Music (2024)    

Media: 4k video, stereo sound

Duration: 10.03

Sound composition created using an Oramics Machine, originally developed by Daphne Oram - a British composer, inventor, and co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This version of the machine called a mini-oramics was built by engineer and musician Tom Richards, with the support of Goldsmiths University, London.

The machine instrument works via an opto-electronic process. Traditionally, lines would be painted onto 35mm celluloid film, but in this case I drew onto acetate, which is then optically scanned and synthesised into the electronic sounds.

The graphic score in Space Music was created using photometry data from the defunct satellite, Telstar 1. This score would later become an integral component in my film works. In this score I'm translating the measurement of light, of brightness, and speed and drawing these directly onto the machine instrument.