festival site exploration

looking at events to site the ‘events’ – using events previously mapped from november visit. these sorts of events use churches, halls, cultural centre rooms, outdoor spaces, but what is missing? what can the core building provide?

also i have now built up a little sheaf of sound postcards! including one with “pole festival” on the front image – bargain.

table fragment in situ

possible intervention site/use for festival table… i need to return to nowa huta to investigate such sites and my core site…

table/room – core building

looking into the idea of the core building adapting seasonally

as the festival approaches, the standard mixing desk between vocal booth and recording studio is abandoned and the floor becomes a ‘table’ – covered in people, maps, models etc

table fragment

table fragment images – a moving ‘turn’table fragement, to allow man-powered dj decks?

using the old fashioned sewing machine principles, or bicyle power?

provisional stage

must have taken minutes to erect – guerilla performances?

first results…

can’t bring these up (cast in my parents garage) so pics posted here.

and the bowie album cover.

fun with concrete

…thoughts generated by this drawing of a table in a corner… and then recording studio sound proofing… (cover from bowie’s station to station album…) = fun with concrete!

trying to make it provide the same level of baffling to prevent rebouding soundwaves, plus the same look.

interdependancies in dance/music?

“in contrast to other environments where either the music or dance are structurally fixed or largely predetermined, (by a program, a ’set’ of songs, or learned dance steps,) there is a great deal of autonomy on both the part of the underground dj and of the underground dancer with regard to the respective mode of performance. the performance of UDM [underground dance music] thus provides a unique context for the study of autonomy and interdependence of the participants. a fixed dimension (music encoded in the grooves of 12-inch vinyl recordings) in simultaneous combination with an unpredictable, spontaneous dimension (the dj’s musical program and the art of spinning) affect, on an individual as well as collective level, the dancer’s response to the music. conversely, the response from the dance floor, in the form of the sum of individual responses, is continually evaluated by a dj who, for hours on end, is involved  in structuring his or her musical program.”

can i map a sound wave ? the reading of ulysses mapped over the cityplan – where do they intersect?

traces of interdependence

Declaration:
1. that no ‘thing’ can exist and not affect its environment
2. that what is left behind can be more informative than what left it
3. that a trace can be not only physical, but a memory, a sound, that passes itself on
4. that these traces form a structure/web of their own, building a network more intrinsic to our experience of the world than physical construction

more pics from the dublin cameras