Owl Project

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Owl Project is an art collective formed by Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons. They work with wood and electronics to create music-making machines that fuse sound art with sculpture. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Notable works include 2012 Cultural Olympiad commission ~Flow, a large-scale floating installation which sonified the flow and salinity of the River Tyne using a range of hand-crafted machines, [6] and the iLog, commissioned by Crafts Council UK. [7] They are based in Rogue studios, Manchester UK. [8] [9]

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