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 on laminate flooring
Posted by Adrian on 25th September 2009
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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