Radio controlled audio cars at the Royal Festival Hall

This was a collaboration with Patrick Furness, and was installed during the Edgard Varese season at the Royal Festival Hall earlier in 2010. Patrick had thought of the idea a while ago and made a prototype, but we had been waiting for a chance to make one on a larger scale.

The first part of the video shows Patrick and James gluing strips of pre-recorded audio tape onto a sheet of MDF. 16 of these boards were made, containing a total of 7.9 kilometres of tape, all laboriously glued by hand.

Once the boards were prepared, 3 radio controlled cars were driven around on top of them. Each car had a tape playback head attached to the underside, connected to a transmitter, which sent the audio picked up from the tape back to a PA system (or headphones when the RFH employees wanted a break).

The cars could be driven via joysticks on 3 control plinths. Each board had a different theme, including sine waves, percussive sounds and white noise, and the pitch of the audio played back would depend on how fast you were driving.

More details here:

www.nervoussquirrel.com/cars.html

www.patrickfurness.com

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