Decision time. And mass editing time. Despite having about 80gb worth of video footage, I’ll not being showing any of it (add harsh editing decisions to that). Carpet is staying but is having nothing done to it, no projections, nada. It works very nicely as it is thank you very much – see images attached to this post.
Managed to locate a medium format projector (and a rather fancy one at that) so I’ll be showing one of my photographs as a projection and another as a c-type print on aluminium.
And finally, there’ll be an as-yet-to-be-made sound piece. I’ll be setting up 4 mics in the house – one in the bedroom, one on the landing, one in the hall, and finally one between the back room and the kitchen. I’ll then recording me and Andy moving about, possibly getting ready to go out – as we move about the house, the sounds will be picked up by the different mics, the idea being that when it’s played back via four speakers in the gallery, you’ll get the sense of us moving about the space.
Not sure about the fire surround as yet – it seems to be becoming something else, something more sculptural and less about documentation. I’ve finished Stage 1 – making boxes to hold the separate sections in the right place, and which also enables the piece to be broken down into sections for storage and transportation – this thing is bloody heavy. Stage 2 will involve filling said boxes with expanding foam with plasterboard on top, and finally Stage 3 will involve a plaster render. Not sure if it’s going to be going into a fake wall anymore, or whether it would be more interesting seeing the packing crates. Hmmmmm.
One of the later video ideas I had involved using various different photographs, and plans of the house and making a piece in which these different sources seemed to melt into each other. This was an earlier edited plan, but I’ve put version of this forward to the lovely folks at Rednile (www.rednile.org) as a proposal for one of their Factory Night commissions at the Oceana in Wallsend (where coincidently, the work I made as part of the Wildworks project I was involved in last year was shown). Will know the outcome of that in a few weeks time (fingers crossed).
My night time reading consists of a couple of music tech text books (Spatial Audio and Shaping Sound), I’m catching up with some reading about cultural concepts of documents and documentation and I’m on the hunt for writing about how the Victorian’s believed recorded sound to be akin to cheating death. Relevant? I think so.
