First afternoon of workshop led by Tom Espiner of Sound&Fury hopefully happened earlier today. I hope it went well. As I'm 3548 miles away, I haven't heard yet if it happened or what happened.
I know this is what he intended:
Initially I am keen simply to explore playing with poetic text and sound loosely associated with the subject of cosmology and astronomy, stars and darkness and I am looking forward to sharing this with you and getting your ideas and responses too!
Has anyone written anything yet about what unfolded this afternoon? Please use the comments box below to copy in comments or indicate any useful links. For me, this will need to be an exercise in filling in the pieces of information from a distance. Useful test of rapid documentation - from multiple sources? We can see.
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ReplyDeleteI just posted my exercise from the first half of Monday's workshop on my blog (maurenpereira.wordpress.com), I'll try to put up the audio from the second part tomorrow morning
Fantastic afternoon with Tom, who really quickly got us working together on our feet and importantly, playing. The studio was plunged into darnkness and every person in the room began to explore the sound potential of objects, somehow finding moments of pure collaboration and at others simply contributing to a noise.
ReplyDeleteCertain soundscapes were tested (Forest, Desert, Temple) but it was the environments of harbour and boat at sea that happened accidentally which were most exciting.
All in all a great introduction to the work of Sound&Fury with Tom contextualising their practice really well. Tom set us each the task of making a journey from a mirror to the night sky which I hope people completed yesterday evening as I am intrigued to see where that work can be developed.
We did have an audience of governors for a portion of the session which was odd, (also two members of the writing course who are observing this week) I always find it strange to have observers who are disengaged and simply watching from a distance in a workshop - it somehow adds a layer of performance to even the simplest warm up exercise.
I will post a couple of bits of documentation to my blog also (www.longdistanceideas.blogspot.com)
Tried to post a quick update last night with regards to this workshop run by Tom , but it was sent by one of these fancy touch screen phones that I never manage to get familiar with! Anyway, again, yes the workshop is going ok, the space is definitely spot on in terms of acquiring the right vibe for this particular work. We work in darkness mostly, allowing any form of distraction to get out of the way in order to absorb the real essence of SOUND. Today we were asked to work in groups of six and to create sounds out of "an imaginable bandwidth" draft, that we all sweetly designed. I felt as I was back in Primary school for a moment and see how we were all so into it! We than performed a reading text piece, where everyone was freely allowed to input his/her own interpretation on the reading. I trust that Tom is doing a good work and he is well empathetically engaged with the students.
ReplyDeleteThe workshop has been really interesting so far. Tom gave us a clear insight into how he makes work and how sound is a major contributor to this.
ReplyDeleteThe last two days have been fun as we have been making sounds with various objects and instruments. This culminated in us presenting text to an audience who are sat in the dark. It has been interesting working with the lights off as it creates a whole new working environment. By doing the exercises yesterday and at the start of today's session it meant our ears were all finely tuned to listen and respond to sounds as part of a group and then to bring this to a text.