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Frazer Merrick

@frazermerrick.bsky.social
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Sound artist - electromagnetic field recording and DIY instrument building

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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Music hidden in plain sight!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Acoustic levitation!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🧂 🫨
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Petition to blacklist snorers from hostels. Or give them their own rooms where they can snore in harmony.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 06/09/2025
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
At this point, the word immersive has lost all meaning.
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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I submitted SPOKE for the MIDI awards. Public voting starts soon (now?). There's at least 4 other projects in the awards of people I know and who also deserve to be recognised. So, you know, vote for who you think should win :) midi.org/innovation-a...
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SPOKE
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Making music from mud! Blowing bubbles with a small air pump, and resonating the sound (from a hydrophone) in Ableton.
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Squeaky gate ambient drone 🗿
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I think *fake podcast* might just be my most hated advert format. So much grifting.
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Audio to midi to solenoid 🤩
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Low tide on the river Colne, Colchester. A carpet of Trolleys, bikes, cones, road signs lining the bottom of the river.
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Midi bubbles! Playing with my new midi to motors PCB. Now I can control solenoids, motors and even an air pump with Ableton 🤩
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Circuit bending the Casio SK1. It’s now a fun improv drum machine!?
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My running route took me through the bagpipe festival in Colchester’s lower castle park. A beautiful cacophony!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Petition to ban voice notes longer than 10s. I do not want to listen to your monologue. Collect your thoughts and write them down. Please 😩
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Recording lightning with my solar panel microphone. Dramatic cracks and pops! Each flash of light generates an electrical output from the solar cell, which is connected directly to an audio output.
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
West Ham, forever snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
BIG BIRD WHISTLE!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Can any twitchers identify this? It’s birdsong was so loud!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Reverse listening headphones! I’ve been working on some science of sound teaching resources and made these 🎧
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Why on earth are ITV using the Live Love Laugh font for their #6nations coverage 🤢
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Did you know you can use a solar cell to listen to light? 💡 🔊
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Strobing LEDs at audio rate to make a synth from light 💡 This project uses a teensyLC and a custom version of my Photon Smasher mic:
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Ran a podcast workshop in an acoustically cavernous room this week, so built this very diy vocal booth and the results were surprisingly decent!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Two “voice” synth made using strobing LEDs (TeensyLC) shining at a solar cell. I’ve got a third LED shining at an LDR in series on the output of the solar cell, creating a gate-like effect. Would love to add midi and/or CV control for pitch and gate next!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I absolutely love what I do. Giving young musicians confidence, opportunity and skills to be the best versions of themselves. Heres a mini documenatry from CLIP’s (my music non-profit) birthday gig last December. youtu.be/5JoGTgAVAd4?...
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CLIP - Future Frequencies Mini Doc
YouTube video by CLIP SOUND AND MUSIC
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Putting recordings of lights through a vocoder! I’ve been exploring new ways to use photon smasher recordings and using them as triggers, or sidechain sources, has been fruitful. Here’s a recording from Hiroshima, Japan.
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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The Pre-Launch for my kickstarter is now live. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomfox/spoke-touch-sensing-made-simple It is a new type of touchboard that has 27 inputs, can control MIDI or act as a HID. With neopixel indicators for each pin and connectors for i2c peripherals.
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Coming soon: SPOKE - Touch sensing made simple
SPOKE is a simplified capacitive touch sensor board for interactive computer interfacing.
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New toy! Now I can make my own filament 🤩 excited for some litter picking fueled 3D printing ♻️
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Nathan Moody @noisejockey.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#fieldrecording prevents space madness. (Source: “A City on Mars”)
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I'm familiar with flexible PCBs, but has anyone tried to make a living hinge PCB? It's possible with plywood/mdf and even acrylic. What about a composite material like FR4?
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I don’t *need* a dodgem car, but I definitely want a dodgem car…
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Love Samplr, so much fun to use!
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Electronics components vendors in Akihabara, Tokyo. Picked up a bunch of beautiful knobs, buttons and switches for circuit bending projects 🤩
Flat lay of colourful switches and buttons Colourful trays of knobs and dials Wall of audio cables with colourful neon price tagsTrays of LEDs and knobs
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Found this incredible drum pattern in these flashing lights! Recorded with the Photon Smasher microphone, in Hiroshima 🇯🇵
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Frazer Merrick @frazermerrick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Listening to the lights of Tokyo with my solar panel microphone, the Photon Smasher. So many amazing drones, tones and rhythms!
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