Week 1: Mapping the site, first test excavation and photographs

29Jun10

The first day of the residency was a gloriously sunny Friday. After meeting with Arlene and Leon and some brief discussion of the schedule (and a bacon butty) I started mapping the site. Below is a sketch plan showing all the appropriate measurements, my failed attempt at trying to use Pythagoras’  theorem to calculate whether one of the corners was […]

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Tags: Diagram, Excavation, Found Objects, Mapping, Photographs, Rusted Metal, Slate

Pieces of broken shellac records from first site visit

17Jun10

Below are some scans of broken record pieces from the site.  On initial inspection I thought the pieces were vinyl, but it turns out with a closer look that they’re shellac; so in all likelihood the fragments are from older ten-inch records.

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Tags: Broken Records, Research, Shellac

Use of environmental sound by Maryanne Amacher and Max Neuhaus

15Jun10

In some recent recording and a recent live performance I’ve used a microphone hung out of the window to pick up environmental sound. This is partly as a nod to John Cage’s 4’33” – where the silence of the performers emphasises the sounds inside and outside the room – and partly as an attempt to […]

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Tags: Environmental Sound, Field Recording, Research, Sound, Sound Sculpture

Katja Strunz’s kinetic sound sculptures

08Jun10

Over the weekend I visited the Baltic in Gateshead where there was an exhibition of work by artists influecned by John Cage, called Cage Mix. I was pleased to see a work by Berlin based artist Katja Strunz who makes, amongst other things, sculptures which often feature kinetic elements and sound.  “Katja Strunz has a constellation […]

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Tags: Environmental Sound, Kinetic Sculpture, Multichannel Audio, Research, Sculpture, Sound Sculpture