Hi Olga, I went over a couple of weeks ago with Ruth and saw the Sound Lathe in action at Space Media. More info on the Sound Lathe piece can be view here http://www.simonblackmore.net/ on the front page of Blackmoore's web site. I think the work is excellent, but personally have issues in understanding the link proposed around it being permaculture - yet, the work itself on its own merit has great qualities.
marc > Yesterday I went to Space for the presentation of Simon Blackmore end > of Permaculture residency. Although the presentation was a bit > unprepared and unstructured we got to see some of his work. One > project he showed I found quite interesting was the Sound Lathe by the > Owl Project (of which Simon is a member). > > "Sound Lathe is a new piece of work by the Owl Project that explores > of the sonic properties of woodwork.The Sound Lathe produces audio > data, saw dust, noise and wood chippings. With this human powered > machine, turned spindles are shaped into complex sounds such as tones, > glitches and beats.." > > It is interesting because it combines a very physical procedure with > the production of electronic music. Contrary to what often happens > with experimental electronic music gigs where the musician sits in > front of his screen and the audience tries to guess whether he is > actually doing anything or playing a tune from VLC, in this case the > musician performs. The performance required an important physical > effort and it involves also the modeling of wood. I found this > intersection quite inspiring. > > There is a more information at their website, including videos and > documentation: > > http://www.owlproject.com/ > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
