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rike & dean
Frontera // The Early Morning Market
Jul 7th
Today Lilia and I started working on Frontera meets the early morning market. Building on Lilia’s interactive installation, and the story telling project I have been engaging as part of dala’s Livelihoods Initiative, we are working towards an interactive audio visual installation, primarily based on touch.
TIME_FRAME Durban / 2010
Jul 1st
TIME_FRAME Durban / 2010
Intersections are physical, conceptual, psychological and philosophical spaces where people,
ideas and objects interact. Intersections mark meeting points in our cities and lives. The
purpose of TIME_FRAME Durban / 2010 is to explore the intersections of space, place and
people in the context of the 2010 World Cup from a grounded and people-centred perspective.
With funding from the Mondriaan Foundation, dala (www.dala.org.za) is hosting 10
creative practitioners for a 10 day new media experiment in Durban
Room tones.
May 31st
We made some more accurate recordings of the gallery using my new field recorder.
What Vaughn is up to.
May 31st
Vaughn is working on the following objects to illuminate the space: More >
New field recording gear.
May 31st
During our first visit, I used my cassette recorder to make some simple recordings of the space. Usually when I make recordings, I use the cassette recorder or an old Sony minidisc recorder. Both are useful devices – the cassette recorder has a great texture to it, and I love the saturation i can get out of it when I put line devices into it. The minidisc is stereo and has a decent stereo mic. More >
First visit.
May 31st
Our first visit to the gallery was to basically get a sense of the sound and physical dimensions of the space itself. I made some rudimentary recordings using my tape recorder. We not only got to see the space that we are going to work in, but also got to check out the roof of the city hall. More >
Approval!
May 31st
So – my proposal is approved.
I must admit that I was terrified presenting my case to the assembled academics. However, they seemed to be quite interested to see how the project turns out in the end. More >
The Proposal.
May 31st
“Our perception of space depends as much on what we hear as on what we see.”
“Traditionally composers have located the elements of a composition in time. One idea which I am interested in is locating them, instead, in space, and letting the listener place them in his own time. I’m not interested in making music exclusively for musicians or musically initiated audiences. I am interested in making music for the people.”
(Neuhaus,1994 quoted in LaBelle, 2006:147)
(Pulse) Generator.
Jun 21st
At most electronics stores there are children’s project kits. One that you’ll generally find is something along the lines of “The Sound Effects Generator”. This is the description in the Yebo! Electronics Sound Effects Generator Kit:
This is a simple sound effects generator that can create a large variety of sounds, including motor boat, speed boat water droplets on a tin roof, a hospital heart beat monitoring machine, the tick-tock of a grandfather clock or the noise of a cricket!
Actually all this does is make a clicking noise. A pot changes the speed of the clicks. So it is kind of boring.
First fix: call it a Pulse Generator. Awesome!