Piano Migrations II at Concrete and Glass Festival
Piano Migration II: Video responsive instrument.Curated by Lumin, as part of the Concrete and Glass Festival, The inside of an old upright piano, rescued from destruction, is transformed into a light activated instrument. Video projections move across the surface of the piano strings, triggering small machines to twitch and flutter causing the strings to resonate. For one night, this installation becomes →
Creative Communities
Last November I finished work on a community project in Addlestone, Surrey. I worked with a group of teenagers at Addlestone Youth Centre, exploring all sorts of stuff. Stop frame animation, time lapse, interviews with the older generation, found sound, and ended up with a 25 minute movie. The final work was exhibited at Chertsey Museum in a space designed →
Venus In Transit
A few weeks ago me and two other artists (Jan-Willem van den Bosch and Caroline Collinge) applied for a Museumaker art residency at Orleans House in Twickenham, London. We got to the last three with our proposal and we made this short film to give a flavour of how we work in terms of connecting ideas, interweaving fiction and fact →
SVA exhibition
Just took a quick look at the SVA - Stroud Valley Arts - exhibition. Some good and intriguing and some truly dreadful and poorly executed. Oogoo Maia's sonic found object sculptures tickled me. The first, I thought a poorly executed play on music by Steve Reich, using feedback from swinging microphones over speakers - the sonic part was not interesting or →
Memory Machine
A journey through moving image and sound. A series of thoughts and stories from the older generation filtered through the eyes and ears of young people. Informal interviews combined with animation, sound and film exploring the townscape of Addlestone. This has not intended to be either historical, or a reminiscence. The aim throughout has been to allow people to be themselves →
Pain
I am at an end with Schtanhaus and Headlong Theatre's production of The Winters Tale. Sunday morning I felt proud of the production, feeling proud of my contribution to my first professional Shakespeare production, now I want nothing to do with it. There have been three previews so far and press night is tomorrow and I feel the heart has been →
Lots of Stuff after a Short Break
Managed to squeeze in a trip to the Cornish Coast for a couple of weeks amidst lots of busyness. I found my creativity flagging and was on the point of doing my work like an automaton. That has to be a sign to stop and take stock. And there is know better way than swimming in a beautiful place. Finished off →
Helen
Working again with Tamsin Shasha of Actors of Dionysus on another aerial piece of theatre this time based upon stories and myths around Helen of Troy. Other collaborators incude director - Jan-Willem van den Bosch, designer - Caroline Collinge, choreographer - Helen Parlour, a very exciting team with lots of ideas. We are in the research and development stage and →
All The Little Things We Crushed
Starting work on sound design and original music for "All The Little Things We Crushed" at the Almeida Theatre. A response to the main show "When The Rain Stops Falling", this is written for a young audience. The script by Joel Horwood, travels back and forth in time bringing together different threads to a story set in an imaginary but →
Flurry at Bodies On The Edge
A collaborator of mine Heather Wastie recently took part in Bodies On The Edge in Coventry. Flurry is a Quartz patch I programmed that takes a live video feed and divides it into a 'flurry' of coloured squares that reacts either to the intensity of an audioinput or a midi trigger such as Soundbeam. The squares react by changing size, moving →
Site 09 Open Studios
We are opening up our living room as an art gallery to participate in the Stroud Valley Arts Site 09 festival. We are luring visitors with a bribe of cake and maybe a glass of wine - if you are quick enough. We will be exhibiting some of The Artist's recent work and if I get the chance, I will compose →
Project Blake now installed
The mosaics and the sound boxes are now installed and it looks and sounds fantastic. The official opening was on April 30th, last Thursday. This has been a fantastic project to have been involved with. I love the way we kept with what I think is the spirit of Blake's poetry and recorded all sorts of people from all sorts of →
Quartz Composer Madness and Bamboo Flute
In our research time on Mapping Me, after getting all the component software working - Desktop Soundbeam, Ableton Live, MaxMSP, Quartz Composer, Reason - we started to play. This Quartz patch pictured on the left interacts with one soundbeam and live video feed. As you move down the beam particles of translucent green and red squares are emitted. The closer →
Mapping Me
Starting new project working under Heather Wastie - soundbeam artist and poet - with multimedia installation artist Geoff Broadway. For those of you who may not know, Soundbeam is an ultrasonic device that measures distance continuously and translates this into MIDI. So you can play a piano by waving your arms seemingly pointlessly in the air and much much more. The →
More on Project Blake
We are nearing are target for recordings of readings of William Blake's works. Some great material, including readings by Rowan Williams and John Constable, suspecting and even some unsuspecting members of the public in Lower Marsh Street Market.A big thankyou to those of you who came down to Lower Marsh looking for us, and a big thankyou to everybody who →
Project Blake
Another exciting project with Digital Fluid. This time I am helping make a sound installation in a tunnel under the tracks from Waterloo Station on Centaur Street. We are recording a large selection of people, including members of the public, reading the works of William Blake. There will be listening posts in the tunnel, as part of a ceramic mosaic →
The Room Of Potential
Welcome to The Room Of Potential.The artistic home of a group of related art projects initiated by Simon McCorry. Creative Cabin, Amonism, Pyroscopic, The Memory Machine, Topical Fruit Records amongst others. I've been wanting a more informal web presence than that of Creative Cabin but something a little more flexible than a Myspace for some time. So I've opted for what →