Tuesday, 28 April 2009

lots of work to be done

Still working hard to get everything sorted for the exhibition at the end of this week. Opening on Friday and then the concert on Saturday. I hope it all turns out well. I am fairly comfortable with the plan I have conjured up, but it remains to be seen if is doable and if it turns out well. Always a really exciting and scary part of a project when there is nothing you can do except push through and hope for the best.
I am doing drawings - first time I am focusing so much on drawings. I didn't draw at all for several years before I moved to Glasgow and started GSA where the first thing they made us do was a three day drawing workshop and fieldtrip. Since then I have been drawing and trying desperately to make up for all the "bad" years, but I am still quite uncertain of my drawings and slightly scared of putting so much hope on them alone.
Also working on a sound piece for the space I am going to install it all in. Since March I have been making quite a few recordings with a small dictaphone. The sound isn't good enough to fool anyone, but it lets me play around a little bit and functions a bit like sketches of the sound. Now I have booked out proper professional recording equipment from the EMS (Electronic Media Studio) and made recordings in the old shop where we were supposed to exhibit work. We have moved the show to the Barnes, but I still wanted some of the sounds from the old shop to put into the room. The water moving around in the pipes in that building are wonderful and strange and sligthly uncomfortable. The water is seeping through the whole building and makes sounds when you least expect it. Keeping fingers crossed I manage to edit it well and get an output for the show that will sound vaguely interesting and as a part of the fabric of the building.

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