Jim Murphy

Drums strike themselves, piano keys don't need fingers to make music - the instruments play themselves in the show Mechanical Ballet. Jim Murphy is one of the creators of the autonomous instruments… Audio

'Lost Oscillations' is a contribution to the Audacious Festival in Christchuch from sonic artists Dugal McKinnon and Jim Murphy. They tell Eva how it works, and what was involved in its creation. Audio

Among the works at the recent Lux festival in Wellington was an audiovisual kinetic sculpture called Theta-R Video, Audio

Melody Thomas reports on the strange sights and sounds coming from Victoria University of Wellington, where she finds three musical Tesla Coils, a robotic backing band, and some very clever people… Audio

Chime Red is a Victoria University collaboration music and engineering students using three Tesla coils, the MechBass robotic bass guitar and robotic drums Audio