Second of March, marching up the hill, bit confused as to where I am having lost the work from Thursday that I did on the voice recorder. Interested looking at Duncan Speakman's work that his mediascape 'always something somewhere else' is one of the most listened to so I am thinking about how I would make the experience engage with the students what is it that they are wanting to create because with Duncan's work it's his work he is very much in control and he is offering the experience, with what I am trying to do the experience is the student's, and what they want to offer, but mentored by me so that it doesn't all go flat. I have no idea what they might offer, music, in a situation, but then you get into copyright issues, thinking about issues, thinking about what they are thinking about. The real success with Duncan's piece he was touching on quite a number of areas but a lot of it was about feel, the feel of stone, listening to water, thinking about the environment,. thinking about the cityscape. I don't know how that would go down with students, whether it is more adult orientated. The beauty of the mole game both for adults and students is that it's really good fun. And it is particularly fun watching people do it, racing around in imaginary games, jumping around. It's that games energy we need I think, getting the games energy going, the hide and seek sort of thing. Don't what to get too much into the sort of dry history of it, it's got to be exciting, although the beauty of the Sydney gardens is it's history, so how does that fit in? Ideas of Big Brother come to my mind, of the confession room and students being keyed into that sort of reflection . The sort of thing that the two James’s were doing for the Christmas do, taking video, taking little sound clips and editing them to give an experiential soundscape What are you feeling as you walk around the gardens? that keyed in a bit to what Duncan was doing with his mediascape in Sidney, where you were sitting in the place but experiencing other peoples experiences. That fits quite well with the photo of Adelise taken at the Sydney gardens, and groups of boys playing in the gardens. So looking at other peoples experiences, or trying to understand other people and get into their experience. That sort of fits in a bit with how the park is used in contemporary times, how you might get an understanding of the old men drinking cider on the bench, the retired person walking through the park, the young people in the evening gathering. The people just using the park to walk through to get to work. You could build a soundscape based on all these different experiences. And maybe based on interviews. If you can stop people in the park and ask them questions. Maybe sitting on a particular bench, or looking over a bridge. What are you thinking of as you lean on the bridge looking down on the railway, which could obviously bring in thought of steam trains going under, sounds of steam trains, the splashing of ducks in the canal, the clomp of horses, the shrill giggles of Edwardian girls in the gardens. That sort of conjuring up an atmosphere that is perhaps this time shift thing, could be to do with a time shift over the time of the gardens, so you get contemporary sounds, airplanes going over, connected with old sounds like the steam engines. Hip hop, or some contemporary drum and bass playing which might merge with some Mozart.

Tags:Pervasive MediaSilver ProjectDuncan SpeakmanSilver ProjectSydney Gardens ProjectSilver ProjectStory telling