Tag Archives: Mycroft Milverton

Dismembered Empire: Part I

Photographs by AB Photography Many months work has come to fruition with the performance of Dismembered Empire in the Williamson Tunnels. We started developing the show in February and the two performance nights were a great success! Photographs by Kate more »

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Playing “Tickets Please”

“Tickets Please” is packed up and delivered to METAL. I have had time to edit some video footage of the game in action from our final play tests. “Tickets Please” is an oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration more »

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Making “Tickets Please”

Today we completed making “Tickets Please” It is an Arduino and RFID powered oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration of the Edge Hill Archive. The “Signal Repeater” electronic hub was made by Mycroft Milverton, the game board was more »

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Edgy: The Railway Cabaret

On Saturday myself and Brox performed with the rest of the Sound Tracks group in Edgy: The Railway Cabaret. Part of the Working Class Life and Music Festival. Our show “Sound Bites” was inspired by the Oral History stored in more »

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Radio Arduino

  I have just completed my first Arduino Project. It’s pretending to be an Oscar Belle Two Band Transistor Radio (Made in Hong Kong in the early 1960s). What it is really doing is playing 24 music tracks that I more »

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Taught by an Idiot

On Thursday I, and friends from the Sound Tracks group, the Suitcase Ensemble and LIPA attended a theatre workshop held by Told by an Idiot, the company behind And the Horse you rode in on. We played various improvisation games more »

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