A Collective Memory of Childhood 25 July - 23 September 2012 http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/collective-memory-childhood
Artist and composer Michael Szpakowski has worked with local people to create a generative sound sculpture that invokes the collective memory of childhood that people bring to Haringey from all over the world. Part of PARK ART in Haringey - an alternative, multi-venue sculpture park for the London Borough of Haringey. Through a series of celebratory events at Coleridge Primary School and Furtherfield Gallery, Michael gathered field recordings of children’s' rhymes: playground, skipping, clapping and those of other games from three generations of local residents, in every language that is spoken locally. These are mixed with fragments of a magical and gentle Summer music that he will compose to fit with the sounds of the park - working with modal and pentatonic scales and scoring for bells, flutes, harps and singing bowls. The resulting immersive soundscape, with fragments of children’s rhymes spoken by many generations it changes constantly and kaleidoscopically, drawing on the texts and music in endless variations will be audible during opening hours in the area around the gallery and spill over into the adventure playground from July to September 2011. -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour