How one folk musician and composer’s passion for the first music machine has seen him embrace the very latest 21st century music technology.
1. Painstakingly restore a 19th century 4ft high music box and reverse engineer the Victorian technology used to project music manuscript onto its 20” steel discs.
2. Write the first new music for Polyphon in 132 years and develop a computer programme that turns midi notes into concentric coordinates to manufacture brand new discs.
3. Replace the machine’s coin mechanism with foot operated solenoid switches to enable stop/...
Pre-concert talk and demonstation of original Polyphon music device (c. 1880) from 6pm.
Folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Luke Daniels’ talents as a singer-songwriter are becoming widely recognised. Immaculate acoustic guitar playing and insightful, honest lyrics exploring love, life, doubt and faith and the idea that happiness and hope spring from what we have in common, rather than what we can acquire as individuals.
Over the course of a twenty-year career Daniels has already earned his place on the UK Folk scene as a virtuoso melodeon player with the...
‘Good folk songs are like dangerous ideas, forcing us to re-imagine who we are and the institutions that support us.’
Folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Luke Daniels’ talents as a singer-songwriter are becoming widely recognised. Immaculate acoustic guitar playing and insightful, honest lyrics exploring love, life, doubt and faith and the idea that happiness and hope spring from what we have in common, rather than what we can acquire as individuals.
Over the course of a twenty-year career Daniels has already earned his place on the UK Folk scene as a virtuoso...
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