Posted on Wed 24 Oct 2012
Today we are announcing Watershed’s Playable City Award, a new commission open to artists and creatives from across the world. With a challenge to use creative technologies in surprising and engaging ways, the winner of the award will receive £30,000 to create a new work which will be installed…
Posted on Wed 24 Oct 2012
Studio residents Calvium are delighted to announce a new collaboration with theatre makers Kneehigh to create Kneehigh Rambles, a mobile application offering free interactive walks for lovers of Cornish stories. Kneehigh are a Cornwall-based theatre company with a reputation for creating…
Posted on Sun 21 Oct 2012
The first choir session in Bedford was on Tuesday 9th October at Rutland Road church hall. A really nice group of people came along – all of whom are good singers and are interested in the project. I started the session with a short talk about the idea behind the piece including how bats use…
Posted on Sun 21 Oct 2012
When we had the sensors all wired up- and working with an arduino, we took took a range of different kinds of sonar sensors to a large space to check out which ones worked best, and also – to tes
Posted on Sun 21 Oct 2012
I met up with Bob and Jude from Bedfordshire Bat Group – as I was in Bedford, and thought it was a great opportunity to follow up from the Bat walk… Bob had given us a lot of things to think ab
Posted on Sun 21 Oct 2012
I have been talking about making an ‘open score’ without really going into detail… well, this is something I’ve been interested in for a long time – especially informed by my work with Co
Posted on Sun 21 Oct 2012
I decided it would be great to have a mentor for this project, and so I invited Andy K
Posted on Sun 21 Oct 2012
Before starting the workshops in Bedford with a choir who will perform a ‘work in progress’ piece in December, I organized 2 sessions to try out some vocal ideas to help me plan best for the
Posted on Sun 21 Oct 2012
A few weeks before I started this project, I met Bristol based singer Victoria Bourne. I told her about my project and after we’d enthusiastically chatted non-stop about composers and musicians we love, I booked myself in for some singing lessons with her. I’m not a trained singer – so I…
Posted on Fri 19 Oct 2012
On 5th of October we were joined in the Studio by Damon Rand from Clean Energy Prospector to learn more about the amazing Air Quality Egg project. The Air Quality Egg is a low-cost environmental sensor capable of sensing NO2 and CO2 (and optionally O3, VOC and radiation). The data is realtime, open…
