As well as the daily (or at least regular) process of listening to the estate, and the compilation of people's favourite songs (song of the day), i'm also capturing the sounds of the actual underground car park.
acoustically, it's amazing and i wish i had more concrete sound skills to be able to work with it better.
but, failing that, i've put a stack of mics up around the space, plugged them into the neighbourhood house's mix desk and have been listening to a beautiful mix of all the sounds of the space at once (perhaps a bit like what i do above ground, but more technical - less conceptual).
i'm from that i'm going to plug the mix into a headphone amplifier and fix a stack of headphone jack cables to the areas that are accessible from above ground: grills, grates, doorways, drains, etc.
so that peeps on the estate can come and listen to the sounds of the underground by plugging their own headphones in.
i'm a bit stuck as to how to have a nice finale now. it keeps changing, based on the difficulty i'm having in a) organising basic things and b) my motivation.
for some reason, i'm struggling with it at the moment and i'm not sure what that's about. annoying, actually, as there's rather a lot to do.
writing about it helps a little, which is handy. because then i get to tell you peeps all about what i've been doing at the same time.
there'll be more info at hand, but put these details into your diary:
ARTIST TALKS/PANEL DISCUSSION
Art and The Housing Estate
Friday 4th November
3pm - 5pm
The Underground
with artists from the AURA Project, Greyspace, Tony Reck and panel moderated by Benjamin Cittadini.
LISTENING PARTY/OPEN DAY
Culmination of my residency at Collingwood Housing Estate
Saturday 19th/Sunday 20th November (TBC)
2 - 6pm
Listen to the Underground through the in built listening stations
Pick up a copy of the Collingwood Playlist - everyone from the estate's favourite songs
See the Sound Walls - lists of all the sounds heard on the estate, as the Listener-in-Residence
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