Electronic instruments, mechanical sculptures, robots etc. by David Cranmer
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23rd September 2024
New project: restoration of a beautiful 1957 Bedford turntable ladder fire engine
27th August 2024
Mike Harrison's high voltage Destruct-o-tron / synth jam 2024
21st April 2024
Ondes Martenot "palme" speaker for Charlie Draper
28th January 2024
Frazer Merrick's Time Quest project has launched! An amazing interactive audiovisual installation at Battersea Arts Centre, London. Details of my involvement with the electronic elements here.
31st August 2023
Some friends visited...
7th June 2023
Eurorack synthesiser modules now available to purchase - join the mailing list for future updates!
26th January 2023
Support this exciting new project! The video shows the base unit in action, but there is a lot more planned. The next phase is well under way, but needs more stepper motors and at least four worm drive gearboxes. Any donations towards the cost would be hugely appreciated.
Anyone kind enough to donate GBP £10 or more can have their name printed somewhere on the robot. The robot will make many public appearances, so you'll get plenty of chances to see it.
Click the PayPal button to help today!
1st December 2022
A lawn mower rig for the Chemical Brothers, a pentagonal carousel, some design consultancy for Dan Jones, and a transducer system to play music through your bones.
1st November 2022
Audio LED system for Frazer Merrick
9th October 2022
Photos and video of a visit to see the amazing Henry Dagg - polymath engineer, inventor, musician, composer etc.
31st August 2022
Bank holiday party...
20th August 2022
Working on some exciting projects at the moment, but have also just uploaded some old photos here, from when I worked at a special effects company called Machine Shop.
26th May 2022
The Ore-Some Xylophone will be at EMF Festival next week - do pop by and say hello!
I will also be giving a talk on Friday 3rd, 3:40pm, stage B
21st April 2022
Video with Sound on Sound magazine:
10th January 2022
nervoussquirrel.com on BBC news
14th September 2021
Details of some smaller projects now uploaded:
Mechanical glasses, shot dispensing valve, custom enclosures, emergency rotary damper retrofit, phone spinning rig and a sensor / audio playback system
5th September 2021
Chladni plate cymatics experiments
3rd September 2021
Some wonderful friends visited last weekend - here's a few bits from the party...
16th August 2021
A couple of interesting replica speaker systems for thereminist / ondist Charlie Draper. An imposing theremin diamond speaker and an ondes Martenot métallique.
13th July 2021
Sneak preview of upcoming big project! Lots of welding.
6th September 2020
The Owl Organ has been refurbished!
30th August 2020
Just had a visit from Sam of Look Mum No Computer, and spent a great few days going to car boot sales, staying up late, making electronic noises and wiring up owls...
21st July 2020
20 Thomas Henry X-4046 voltage controlled oscillators now complete
5th JUNE 2020
Quite a while since I've done an interview, but recently had a nice chat with Ben & Ed - listen here...
15th March 2019
Working on loads of projects recently, but still waiting for at least 4000 of them to be publicly announced!
In the meantime here's a laser harp system that was shipped to Dublin earlier today...
13th December 2018
Currently working on an interesting collaboration with top thereminist Charlie Draper. During a visit this week we plugged the CV outputs of a Moog Etherwave Pro into the modular - video on the synth page...
13th November 2018
Some great progress with the modular synth recently, including two new modules by Mutable Instruments. The build process has been documented here...
29th May 2018
Just back from a few days making a lot of noise in a field! Massive thanks to everyone who came and jumped around in front of the Alpaca Sound System.
7th March 2018
2nd January 2018
29th August 2017
Great to see everyone over the weekend! A new portable sound system was unveiled...
23rd August 2017
Musical posters and furniture with built in lights and touch sensors, connected to speakers mounted in beer crates - a promotion for Heineken
11th June 2017
A specially commissioned machine to generate truly random compositions using a lump of uranium ore - now at the Dublin Science Gallery until 24th September.
29th April 2017
Just back from Portugal - a fantastic job for Sony involving building a machine that can fire over 1000 ping pong balls in about 5 seconds. Also involving some upside-down humans. More details
