This summer we had the great pleasure of meeting Sxip Shirey. Sxip is a performer, composer and sonic experimenter of some renown. He recently produced an album titled Sonic New York, and is currently gigging in the UK -you can find more on him and his work here

In this little clip you get an ad-hoc taste of Sxip and Slade jamming by the kitchen sink. Incidentally its also a good illustration of how the suits work - with appreciative noises by Ophelia Bitz.

Some months back, carried by a wave of entusiasm Sonic Sideshow made a suddden, and rather unexpected foray into the world of magazine journalism. Now we are here to tell you all about it!
An inspired conversation with photograher Gavin Mecaniques launched our exploration of the phenomenon of the musician-maker, inspired artists who create their own unusual instruments. The results featured in the August issue of Bizarre Magazine alongside photos by Gavin

circuit-bender extrordinaire, penguin wrangler and creater of the "Furbygurdy" David Cranmer,

theremin player, robotics genius and savant of the uncanny Sarah Angliss in collaboration with Chap-Hop sensation Professor Elemental,

In another turn up for the books Sonic Sideshow ventured into arts and technology education this spring, facilitated by the Creative Partnership department at the Royal Opera House.
In collaboration with the arts department at Shenfield High School in Essex  we lead 16 'gifted and talented' 11year olds through the creation of their very own sonic suits. Starting with an introduction to Sci-fi design, and some ways people in the past have imagined our futures might look, the students went on to discuss their own visions of the future, and designed costumes based on those. They then used their suits to create short performance dialogues between their futuristic alter-egos using triggered samples as well as spoken word. Their pieces were performed both at their school concert and as part of a Creative Partnership conference at Royal Opera House  in Thurrock

The futures proposed by the kids ranged from the fabulous, dystopian or hopeful to the downright tech-fetishistic. Spurring conversations on the necessity or otherwise of money -the likelihood we would all end up living under ground due to environmental devastation, the possibility of touch screen-wind-up mechanisms (!) and whether more torture might save our crime problems!