Dot/Holly meeting 11am-5pm Friday 18th July
Issues Discussed:
1. New Collaborations Bursary:
It’s important not to lose sight of our personal collaboration when working on the other/other/other collective: we must present our Mall Survey recordings in another space to see how they interact, and also make a new, shorter and more specific route using the information gathered from our existing piece. I suggested the sloped anti-slip lower entrance. We will be working collaboratively for the Unit 5 event in August, as well as developing our own work.
2. Anglia Square redevelopment:
Time frame researched, and management and developers contact details found. Idea of celebrating the last days of the 1960s architecture before the demolition starts in 2009.
We need this to be a curated event: not necessarily everyone in other/other/other. We would put forward a Grants for the Arts application with a few specific commissions in mind, having discussed it thoroughly with the group beforehand.
Practical Workshop:
I showed Dot how to make a contact mic, which we then played with. It was nice to share skills, and felt a little bit like a knitting circle for sound artists. We also discussed Michael Ridge (a member of other/other/other) and his electromagnetic sounds, and I showed Dot a telephone pick up coil, and we spent a while playing with the sounds generated by the internal whirrings of a CD player, a printer, and a table lamp. I found an old electromagnet/bit of a radio that was in a bag of miscellaneous electrical bits I bought at a carboot sale, and worked out how to wire it up so that it made the same sounds as the commercial one. Stereo noises! I could take these around shopping malls plugged into my minidisc recorder and do a low-budget version of Christina Kubisch’s e-legend.
Saturday 19th July, very late
We pulled out the pick-up coil and minidisc in the pub and made great sounds from Dot’s phone. It’s a good thing to have in your handbag.
