Sophie Skach
@SophieSkach
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PostDoc w @ARQ_QMUL & @_iil_is dealing w e-textiles, intelligent instruments & soft robots. Trained Fashion Designer @LCFLondon Previously w @QMCogSci @QMUL_MAT
London, Reykjavik
Joined February 2014
RT @designboom: e-textiles make sounds like electronic musical instruments when users touch or stretch them https:/…
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Thanks @designboom for the article on our work on how to make intelligent instruments with e-textiles! @_iil_is
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RT @_iil_is: @NicolaPrivato @_Giaggia Concert 2: “Learning Machine Knit Minput Intertextiles” @victorrileys & @SophieSkach Wed Sep 4, 18:3…
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RT @_iil_is: @NicolaPrivato @_Giaggia @victorrileys @SophieSkach Poster: About TIME: Textile Interfaces for Musical Expression @SophieSkach…
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RT @_iil_is: @victorrileys and @SophieSkach will present their No Input Textiles at the Knit Futures Symposium at Kent State next week. Emb…
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Had a great day at @BristolRobotLab yesterday! Thanks for showing me around all the soft, wearable, flying, flexible robots! Felt special being welcomed by this screen and sitting at that table ...
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RT @_iil_is: Our wonderful postdoc Sophie Skach was interviewed by No Ordinary Cloth! Learn all about projects such as “No Input Textiles”,…
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Great news that called for a night of cocktails! Congratulations to @KasparAlthoefer & Team for securing an ERC Synergy grant!
Delighted to be given the opportunity to collaborate with such incredible researchers, @albertoarezzo, Sebastien Ourselin and @brunosiciliano7, in #ERC #Synergy project Endotheranostics! Just amazing! Thanks to all who supported us to get here! @ARQ_QMUL
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We made a soft, fabric based cap for eversion robots that was presented at #IROS2023 -- paper and video below. Thanks to @KasparAlthoefer for presenting it!
Presented our soft cap for eversion/vine robots at #IROS2023 - lots of interest during the poster session. For those who weren't able to come, here are links to the paper and the video: @STAJAFRI @ARQ_QMUL @SophieSkach
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RT @AngelaMcArt: Part scholarships available for interdisciplinary MA in spatial sound from UCL in East London:
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Tinkering around with textile circuits and @BelaPlatform ... that can only mean a @_iil_is soft instrument is in the making.
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RT @_iil_is: The Artificial Intelligence Music Creativity conference theme this year is Intelligent Performance Systems. We are opening up…
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RT @TIntersections: The 3rd edition of Textile Intersections conference will take place between 20-23 of September 2023. The call for paper…
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Yesterday, we had Alberte Bojesen visit our lab to present her work on seaweed. Obviously we immediately tested it as a drum, violin string, and interface for a mixer.
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We will hook up Double Weave stainless steel reindeers with a No-Input Mixer. And there is cake, too!
The 50th Open Lab is tomorrow! 🎉 Come have a drink and plug your instrument into our OPEN MIXER, learn about soft robotics and how LHÍ students used the lab to build instruments.
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Another txalaparta concert coming up! Ibon RG and Enrike Hurtado will perform with some txalaparta workshop participants at 8pm tomorrow, free entry! All are welcome.
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for all iceland residents (or those who will be there in april) interested in percussion instruments:
Applications for the Txalaparta Workshop in Reykjavik are now open! It's free and only for one day, April 11th. We will explore percussive techniques and a machine learning addition to the instrument. Application deadline: March 28th
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RT @_iil_is: Josh Wilkinson of Cycle Instruments is joining Sophie Skach for tomorrow's open lab! Not only will we learn about Sophie's e-t…
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