Original Copy is a collaborative project, between Riccardo Carbone (Bristol UK) and John Strutton (London UK), that explores the acts of translation between visual material and sound. Drawing, painting and moving image are produced using a number of mechanical devices, such as an old windup gramophone, customised mechanical objects, a lightbox and scanner, optical lenses and modified cameras which are then fed into software built in MAX to produce audio text and musical notation. The project has produced a collection of audio works, video works and performances online and live as part of audio-visual installations. Both the online and live performances take on the form of a séance or summoning to think about ideas such as trapped data, lost messages and anecdotal histories and how both digital and material surfaces might contain or encode them.