Iya Ile Reviews
My work has finished on the play after a trying week with a new version show control software SFX (6.1.09). It seemed stable enough while left to run the show, but when editing was prone to crashes, freezes and unpredictable behaviour such as volume cues losing track of the sound cues to which they refer and in one case pasting →
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 →
Pettiness of Village Life
In the village neighbouring ours they are having a sort of art fair of work from inhabitants of our two villagers. My partner is a very talented water colourist and has returned to painting after a break of a decade. She has exhibited in galleries in Gothenberg, and has sold many paintings. So I have no doubt that she will →
Iya Ile Trailer
Misfit films have made a trailer for Iya Ile for promotional purposes. You can catch it here, to get a flavour of the up coming production at Soho Theatre. We just about to enter our 'tech' week and it is looking good. Sat in on a run of the play yesterday afternoon and the company is doing a great job, can't →
It’s a Tracker. No.1 at Sci Fi London 48 hour Film Challenge
We won! A few days ago I was informed we had won a prize, that we were in the top three. That was very exciting. But as the director Marc Caro anounced the winners of the joint second prize I could not quite believe that we had been ommited and that meant we had won. It must be someone else I →
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 →