Sonic Arts
ELFM and Heads Together have been commissioned by the Sonic Arts Festival (Expo Leeds) to create a work of sonic art for Leeds City Museum. The team of Adrian Sinclair, Ed Heaton and Kypros Kyprianou are working with students from the David Young Community Academy.
The final work will be on display at the Museum during the Festival 24-29th September 2009
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Dog Walks… A Video
Posted by Paddy on 30th September 2009 - 10:10amThe finished product:
Congratulations to everyone at David Young Community Academy, it’s a great piece of art and you should be very proud of yourselves.
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Dog walks on laminate flooring
Posted by Adrian on 25th September 2009 - 11:11am
It walks indeed… or at least the sound of it does – in Leeds City Museum.
Our sonic arts work is now installed in the Museum on Millennium Square for EXPO Leeds. It’s been great. Working in partnership with the David Young Community Academy, on our first visit down to the Museum to discuss the project, the students involved stipulated that they wanted something interactive… very interactive.
Well – it certainly is that! We have taken over the back-to-back exhibition and put a piano right in the centre of the space. Press any of the piano keys and you’ll hear a sound or series of sounds from one of the 5 speakers hidden in the space. A domestic sound. Someone knocking on the window; a couple having a row next door; a microwave ping or …. a dog walking on laminate flooring. Yes 72 different sounds on each of the keys
Try two keys together…
How about a chord…
Before you know it – you are playing your very own ‘domestic symphony’
It was a simple idea but loads of work (and a lot of fun recording at home!). Today is launch day – but get yourselves down to the Museum sometime over this EXPO weekend and enjoy. We certainly have!
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Photos please
Posted by Adrian on 17th September 2009 - 2:14pmOne of the things we want to do for the sonic arts exhibition is have a loop of photos of stuff – domestic stuff. Lovely weird and wonderful stuff from round the home. Would you like your stuff to be part of the exhibition? Please please please take some photos at home and send them through to me at adrian@headstogether.org
Need them as soon as possible…
To give you an idea of the kind of thing we’re talking about have a look at some below – with soundtrack by Mr Renshaw from DYCA …
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Sarah’s back to back
Posted by Adrian on 17th September 2009 - 2:14pm
not sure whether the museum will let us do stuff on the window now … but here is Sarah’s design.
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Reeeeemix
Posted by edheaton on 20th July 2009 - 6:18pmSo we’ve been oing Sonic Art, which sounds scarier than it is. We’ve been have loads of fun none more so than Mr. Renshaw who took some of the recordings and put together this rather ace track. Enjoy!!!
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kitchen window
Posted by Adrian on 9th July 2009 - 4:16pmwe need to bring the outside scene up to date – ideas … email your designs to info@elfm.co.uk
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Thank you !!
Posted by sonic arts on 9th July 2009 - 9:09amHi Kip, Ed and Adrian
This is just a little thanks from all us at DYCA .
Thanks a lot for everything you have done for us !!
Love Sarah x, Melanie x, Emma x, Leila x, Declan x, Macauley, Jamie, Santino, Josh, Kyle, Aeron. Also a little thanks from Mr Renshaw, Mr Dawson, Mr Lee.
THANK YHOO !!!
:):):):):):):) 
:D:D:D:D:D:Dand ….
thanks to adrian, kip, ed and lucie I had a great week doing what i love best i have been working on my blog thinking what to write and i have finally got it i will email it to you
from leila (from david young)
ps i would love to do it again my brothers had a good time today with adrian at gipton gala(adam and ali)
xxx
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Sonic Logo?
Posted by Adrian on 8th July 2009 - 8:20pmWe need a logo for the website – everyone had a go and we voted and narrowed it down to 3 … leave a comment below to let us know your favourite:
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Sonic postcards
Posted by sonic arts on 8th July 2009 - 2:14pmHard at work this week. Day 2 and some of the students have written about where we’ve got to so far…
Sonic art is new and unique way of making music. Sonic art makes music with everyday objects. Like using a car for a drum kit. The Expo Fest is incorporating three schools into the exhibition this year – one of them, ours – the David Young Community Academy (DYCA).
AeronWe met the workers and found out things about them by recording them with small recorders that only record for 10 seconds. We also went around the school recording interesting sounds to help us gain some recording skills as some of the pupils doing the project had never used that type of technology before. Everyone is taking part and we are working as a group and getting along. This helps because then we can communicate better as we feel more confident talking in front of our friends.
EmmaWe have been asked to brainstorm some ideas and create an exhibit that displays sonic art. So-far we have the general idea and the detailed presentations of where we want the sounds to be, we need to check with the curator of the museum in-case we can’t do something …
Kyle
We have started to understand what we are going to do and how we are going to finish doing the project. Once we have finished it will be opened up to the public for three days and it can be put towards are performing arts grade.
Yesterday we first got to know the people we are going to be working with a little more and they got to know us. Also we experimented with a few of the gadgets we will need to use. For example we used little recorders to interview people. Me, Emma, Sarah and Leila interviewed Kyp. We asked him about his job and what he liked about it. Then we used the R-09’s to record sounds around the school. Then we started to edit them to finally make a Soundscape of the DYCA.
We have been to the Leeds Museum and we have been looking around it and thinking about what we can and can not do. In other words we have been try to get used to the area surrounding the back-to-back house kitchen which we are going to be using. For example, we may not be able to do some of the ideas we had in mind because of health and safety matters.
MelanieWe are able to make things interactive so that when you trigger it, it could make a sound.
MacaulayWhat did I like best about today….
Today the best part for me was when we got to play with all the interactive activities at the museum and when we shared our ideas with everyone because sharing our ideas helped us get a better picture on the structure of what our sound scope is going to be like. Thank Yhoo So Much ELFM crew
SarahThe sonic-arts are a unique experience to experiment with and meddle with sounds you hear each and every day. We at the David Young Community Academy are enthralled by the amount of really interesting information provided by the Expo team. THANK-YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!
Jamieand a little example of some of the sounds from day 1… we were asked to go and record sounds from around the school so we could produce a dyca soundscape. We had a bit of fun with it!
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