http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk Sun, 19 May 2013 16:13:21 +0000 http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk en http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/University-of-Birmingham-residency http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/University-of-Birmingham-residency Sun, 19 May 2013 16:13:21 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 5645770 <img src="http://payload167.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/5645770/mineral record.jpg" width="451" height="389" width_o="451" height_o="389" src_o="http://payload167.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/5645770/mineral record_o.jpg" data-mid="30472918" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload167.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/5645770/crassilacean acid metabolism.jpg" width="670" height="626" width_o="1918" height_o="1794" src_o="http://payload167.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/5645770/crassilacean acid metabolism_o.jpg" data-mid="30472911" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload167.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/5645770/blow this.jpg" width="670" height="609" width_o="1260" height_o="1146" src_o="http://payload167.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/5645770/blow this_o.jpg" data-mid="30472901" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload167.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/5645770/mammilamia elongata copy.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload167.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/5645770/mammilamia elongata copy_o.jpg" data-mid="30473106" border="0" align="left"/> Capsule are delighted to embark upon a new partnership with the University of Birmingham, supporting an artist to make and display work in response to the university’s fascinating and varied collections. Sound artist Sarah Farmer will be working with both the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the Winterbourne botanical collection through spring/summer 2013. Farmer will explore the collections, spend time with the curators and staff, and will create sound based works in response to her time there. This a new artistic venture for the university, and an exciting opportunity for Capsule to further our artist support programme May Progress Sarah has been busily exploring the collections at Winterbourne and Lapworth Museum of Geology over the last few months, making new work inspired by the botanic and fossil collections. Here is her first update on the residency, with some amazing images. “The Lapworth collection is home to hundreds of fossils, maps and geological items, whilst the arts and crafts era Winterbourne House houses, amongst many other living libraries, a rare collection of succulents as well as display glasshouses containing plants from all over the world. It also features an original letter printing press which can be used by visitors. Using techniques relevant to archeology and the arts and crafts movement – casting and printmaking (screen, letterpress and photoengraving) I have been gathering images and objects that focus on the textures of the fossils and plants to make my own ‘collection’ based on pattern, texture and the similar designs of the minerals and flora. This collection will take shape as a set of records formed not by cutting or pressing but by casting images into resin which, which when played on a record player will provide a multitude of different sonic textures, beats and drones that will serve as a sonic archive of the objects and will be used to create a new sonic work. Following the notion of collections, a series of poster prints and printed record sleeves will accompany the discs.” Capsule are delighted to embark upon a new partnership with the University of Birmingham, supporting an artist to make and display work in response to the... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/An-Array-of-Events http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/An-Array-of-Events Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:50:09 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 3814259 <img src="http://payload75.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/3814259/bham_web.jpg" width="482" height="417" width_o="482" height_o="417" src_o="http://payload75.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/3814259/bham_web_o.jpg" data-mid="19860255" border="0" align="left"/> The debut performance of new live sound project 'An Array of Events' was part of Capsule's Supersonic Festival Taster at Eastside Projects. 'An Array of Event's' features a new and developing set up of custom made instruments made from found objects, solenoids, loop pedal, record players with cd's and acoustic instruments and controlled via midi and arduino. The debut performance of new live sound project 'An Array of Events' was part of Capsule's Supersonic Festival Taster at Eastside Projects. 'An Array of Event's'... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Curious-Sounds-in-Curious-Spaces http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Curious-Sounds-in-Curious-Spaces Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:10:18 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 2975676 <img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2975676/800x600.fitdown.jpg" width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2975676/800x600.fitdown_o.jpg" data-mid="19860116" border="0" align="left"/> Symphony Hall throws open its doors for a special event in partnership with Fierce Festival as part of the world famous venue’s 21 Anniversary celebrations. Experience the unusual side of sound and music. On Saturday 7 April, and as part of the wider Fierce Festival (29 March – 8 April), Symphony Hall will become a laboratory of ear-opening sound experiments, a chance to discover the mechanisms behind sound and explore areas of Symphony Hall not usually open to the public. Curious Sounds in Curious Spaces will feature music based performances, installations, educational interactive activities and workshops for all the family. Highlights include: • Mobile Sinfonia – One of three UK launch performances of Jem Finer’s (ex-The Pogues) new work. Developed in collaboration with a team of computer scientists at ICIA in Bath, the piece consists of a series of ringtones downloaded from the Mobile Sinfonia website and ‘performed’ by the general public in a space where use of mobile technology is usually frowned upon. • Graeme Miller – Picture and Piano is new work specially created for the stage of Symphony Hall. In a concert-installation, a player piano slides into the distance accompanied by its own movie. The piece modulates the receding music against an approaching landscape as the instrument makes its bid for freedom. • Local Musicians – The day will feature elements produced by local Birmingham-based artists and organisations: • Tissue box guitars with elastic band strings will be the DIY instruments of the past as Juneau Projects take music-making workshops into the 21st Century. Use cardboard to build your own instrument then add some simple electronics to trigger sound samples, take to the stage and play! Examples of the ingenious instruments dreamed up can be seen here. • 8 Bit Lounge will transport their monthly club night at the Hare and Hounds to Symphony Hall with Gameboy music, chip-core tunes and an array of retro arcade games to play. • Building on the success of their recent residency at VIVID and their monthly nights at the Hare and Hounds, Soundkitchen will curate the Sonic Tree, a large installation covered in speakers featuring a series of local artists and musicians. • The Feral Choir – For almost a decade Phil Minton has brought together professional singers and members of the public alike to participate in his Feral Choir. For the celebrations, groups from the Symphony Hall Learning, Outreach and Participation teams will perform. A series of workshops over a number of weeks will encourage the participants to consider the potential of their bodies to create sounds and noises beyond the traditional act of singing. • Felix’s Machines – Automata like you have never seen before. Felix Thorn makes moving musical installations from all sorts of found materials from parts of musical <img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2975676/800x600.fitdown.jpg" width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2975676/800x600.fitdown_o.jpg" data-mid="19860116" border="0" align="left"/>instruments to soap dishes. • Explore Symphony Hall – Areas of Symphony Hall not usually seen by the public will opened up to investigate including backstage and the scene dock. • Play the stairwells of Symphony Hall as Sarah Farmer transforms them into a musical instrument. • Explore the building’s resonant qualities with Bill Leslie and Stephen Cornford’s piece Tuning Up which uses sections of harmonicas and helium balloons. As the balloons are released, the helium makes them ascend to the ceiling, where they gradually deflate exhaling helium through the harmonica and thus emitting a sound. Symphony Hall throws open its doors for a special event in partnership with Fierce Festival as part of the world famous venue’s 21 Anniversary celebrations. ... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Entertainment-perhaps-Art-NO http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Entertainment-perhaps-Art-NO Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:31:15 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 2970624 Fullscreen <img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2970624/Entertainment perhaps- art NO.jpg" width="670" height="471" width_o="2048" height_o="1441" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2970624/Entertainment perhaps- art NO_o.jpg" data-mid="15125493" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2970624/CRASH2.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2970624/CRASH2_o.jpg" data-mid="15151666" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2970624/CRASH1.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/2970624/CRASH1_o.jpg" data-mid="15151671" border="0" align="left"/> An incomplete history of banned music; Map, Mix CDs, Car stereo and bass box Mix CDs of banned music played from an enhanced car stereo in VIVID as part of CRASH; Contingent of the first response. Maps and CDs were available for visitors to take away. Inspired by The Sound-Sweep, a short story by J.G. Ballard in which the title character, a mute boy vacuuming up stray music in a world without it, comes upon an opera singer hiding in a sewer. As all music has been outlawed and destroyed, the opera singer is obsolete but she is desperate to perform again. The motivation for banning audible music (all music is now performed at ultrasonic frequencies) is left ambiguous, although it might be inferred that it stems from a desire to utilise the physiological and psychological effects of music, without its ‘pollution’ of space with noisy sound residues. Whether the shift is a political act of control, a practical solution to noise pollution, a means to ‘dope’ the public, censorship of music, or a natural progression in music listening and technology, it begs the question: why do we feel the need to make music? And in Ballard’s imagined world in which efforts are made to ban it, what is it that they are so scared of? An incomplete history of banned music; Map, Mix CDs, Car stereo and bass box Mix CDs of banned music played from an enhanced car stereo in VIVID as part of CRASH;... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Involution http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Involution Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:27:13 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 758840 SIDESHOW2010 commissioned work, in collaboration with Joanne Masding Fullscreen <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/DSC02739.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/DSC02739_o.JPG" data-mid="3590525" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/M-F2.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1181" height_o="886" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/M-F2_o.jpg" data-mid="4043526" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/DSC00009.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/DSC00009_o.JPG" data-mid="4043565" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/M-F3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1181" height_o="886" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/M-F3_o.jpg" data-mid="4043527" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/M-F4.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1181" height_o="886" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758840/M-F4_o.jpg" data-mid="4043529" border="0" align="left"/> 'Involution' (Projector, mirrors, microphone, amp, video camera, cables) draws on Farmer and Masding’s interest in attempting to understand the world by analysing and responding to familiar objects within it. This line of inquiry comes from a visual and an aural perspective and looks not only at the physical attributes and systems within these objects, but the schemata used in the process of exploration. Farmer closely examines commonplace noises in an attempt to find their internal sequences or to create new orderliness with external systems. For 'Involution' (Projector, mirrors, microphone, amp, video camera, cables) the sound of the fan inside a digital projector is explored with a microphone and amplifier. Masding films this process as an attempt to understand Farmer's method of exploration. The work is constructed and exhibited in a method sympathetic to key notions borrowed from the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi Sabi, which encompasses ideas of temporality. A core thought of this is that things are either devolving toward or evolving from nothingness; objects can be taken directly from the world unaltered, transformed into something else for a period of time in a particular context, simply to return to the world and disappear. Each exhibiting venue for Sideshow 2010 has been asked to provide the components that make up the piece, the artists will then remake and reassemble the work in each given space, then leave, to have no further involvement as to how long it remains for or its afterlife. EXHIBITION VENUES: 22 October - Sideshow 2010 Launch Party, One Thoresby St, Nottingham,NG1 1AJ 28 October - Wunderkammer, Hopkinson Gallery, The Art Organisation, 21 Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3AJ 2 November - Tether Studios 17a Huntingdon Street, Nottingham, NG1 3JH 11 November - What Ever Happened To The Midland Group - Sideshow Seminar Nottingham Playhouse, Wellington Circus, Nottingham, NG1 5AL SIDESHOW2010 commissioned work, in collaboration with Joanne Masding 'Involution' (Projector, mirrors, microphone, amp, video camera, cables) draws on Farmer... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Surface-Arts-D-I-Y-EXHIBITION http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Surface-Arts-D-I-Y-EXHIBITION Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:27:02 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 758737 Fullscreen <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/Warehouse.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="1024" height_o="680" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/Warehouse_o.jpg" data-mid="3589802" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/DIY-Warehouse_169-1024x680.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="1024" height_o="680" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/DIY-Warehouse_169-1024x680_o.jpg" data-mid="3589809" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/DIY-Warehouse_009-1024x680.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="1024" height_o="680" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/DIY-Warehouse_009-1024x680_o.jpg" data-mid="3589811" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/DIY-Warehouse_056-1024x680.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="1024" height_o="680" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/DIY-Warehouse_056-1024x680_o.jpg" data-mid="3589815" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/There are many ways to hit things and many things to hit.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="720" height_o="478" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/There are many ways to hit things and many things to hit_o.jpg" data-mid="3589819" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/There are many ways to hit things performance.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="1024" height_o="680" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/There are many ways to hit things performance_o.jpg" data-mid="3589822" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/There are many ways to hit things...jpg" width="478" height="720" width_o="478" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758737/There are many ways to hit things.._o.jpg" data-mid="3589824" border="0" align="left"/> Images Courtesy of Laurence Underhill DIY: Exhibition and Residency Date: Saturday 18th September – Saturday 16th October Location: Book Cycle warehouse on Water Lane, EX2 8BZ Surface Arts worked in partnership with Book Cycle and EVA Studios to develop this exhibition in an industrial warehouse, under the theme of ‘DIY’. This formed a way to engage with alternative spaces to develop artistic practice outside of the ‘White Cube’ . Surface Arts invited artists to Exeter to take part in a residency in order to respond to this dilapidated building. The artists’ interactions with the warehouse, both its materials and the space were used to create ‘site- specific’ pieces. The numerous art works, involving multiple disciplines take over the entirety of the warehouse and are intrinsic to the site. DIY served as an inquiry into artist-led movements within this time of financial instability and generated an alternative monetary system through ‘in kind ‘ sponsorship to meet the needs of the project. It presents the creative benefits and alternative ways to ‘make’ and ‘do’. The show aims to create a non-alienating, engaging environment where the artists and the public can exchange ideas. The productive space of the working artist as a site of valuable, visual and intellectual interaction is highlighted here. The artists are: Adam Garrett, Chiara Gill, Hanna Downing, James Burgess, Jessica Mautner, Jo Willoughby, Julie McCalden, Mark Houghton, Megan Hoggins, Michele Louise Schiocchet and Sarah Farmer. The additional collaborators are: Dave Holder, Francis Ives and Alex Saunders. DIY will run for four weeks from Saturday 18th September until Saturday 16th October There are many ways to hit things and many things to hit by sarahmfarmer There are many ways to hit things, and many things to hit (Iron girder, found timber and gas cylinders) Collaboration with Dave Holder There are many ways to hit things, and many things to hit is a collaboration between sound artist Sarah Farmer and electronic sound designer Dave Holder. Throughout the residency period Farmer has been collecting, analysing and arranging materials in the warehouse; learning about the materials, looking for patterns within the data and creating systems to be used as compositional tools. Holder has taken recordings of these materials and created a drone based sound work centered on a scale of notes found within the matter itself. Farmer will play these objects live over the drone during a performance on the opening night. The materials used will then be left to rejoin the clutter of the warehouse, returning to their roles of unimportant anonymous debris. Images Courtesy of Laurence Underhill DIY: Exhibition and Residency Date: Saturday 18th September – Saturday 16th October Location: Book Cycle warehouse on... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/DIY-Scratch-Orchestra http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/DIY-Scratch-Orchestra Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:27:00 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 758631 Fullscreen <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/DSC02833.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/DSC02833_o.JPG" data-mid="3589322" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/DSC02834.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/DSC02834_o.JPG" data-mid="3589368" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/DSC02832.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/DSC02832_o.JPG" data-mid="3589425" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/1.jpg" width="480" height="640" width_o="480" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/1_o.jpg" data-mid="3589436" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/DSC02838.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758631/DSC02838_o.JPG" data-mid="3589457" border="0" align="left"/> Gramophone, CDs, Loop pedal, Tapes, Tape recorder, Microphone Scratch Orchestra was an interactive improvised performance developed for Barnaby Art Market. Referencing Cornelius Cardrew's experimental music ensemble The Scratch Orchestra, participants were encouraged to destroy cds, scratch records, loop sounds and improvise with the microphone to create their own unique experimental music tapes. The usual etiquette of music handling (don't scratch the CD, hold record by the edges, sing in tune etc) was disregarded and the participants were encouraged to explore all possible avenues of sound production using very simple equipment. The outcomes were generally glitchy, industrial, repetitive sounds that whilst unusual and slightly chaotic had definite structure and made some 'musical sense' through the process of additive layering and looping. Each performance was an improvisation between artist and participant, with both as equal noise makers. Sam's tape by sarahmfarmer Gramophone, CDs, Loop pedal, Tapes, Tape recorder, Microphone Scratch Orchestra was an interactive improvised performance developed for Barnaby Art Market. ... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Organised-sound-by-Gloggomobil-record-player-timers-and-found-objects http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Organised-sound-by-Gloggomobil-record-player-timers-and-found-objects Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:26:59 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 758605 Fullscreen <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/DSC02700.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/DSC02700_o.JPG" data-mid="3589203" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/DSC02704.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/DSC02704_o.JPG" data-mid="3589217" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/10.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/10_o.jpg" data-mid="3589227" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/11.jpg" width="480" height="640" width_o="480" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/11_o.jpg" data-mid="3589228" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/7.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/7_o.jpg" data-mid="3589229" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/5.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758605/5_o.jpg" data-mid="3589236" border="0" align="left"/> Organised sound (by Gloggomobil, record player, timers and found objects) was a kinetic sound installation for Cu, part of FutureEverything new media festival. It combines an interest in old mechanical technology with electronic new media. The Gloggomobil functioned as programmable barrel organs, triggering a hammering action which hit the objects (glasses) and therefore made them resonate. The adapted record player acted as a wet finger to a wine glass, again causing the object to resonate at it’s natural frequency. A motion sensor timer switch caused the electronic objects to stop and start, adding a rhythmic structure to the sounds, which were partly arranged by the artist following existing musical and mathematical systems, and partly dictated by the technologies used. Organised sound (by Gloggomobil, record player, timers and found objects) was a kinetic sound installation for Cu, part of FutureEverything new media festival. It... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Musick-for-bar-items-and-rotating-technology http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Musick-for-bar-items-and-rotating-technology Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:26:58 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 758557 Fullscreen <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758557/Musick for gloggomobil1.jpg" width="670" height="472" width_o="2048" height_o="1443" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758557/Musick for gloggomobil1_o.jpg" data-mid="3589111" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758557/Musick for gloggomobil2.jpg" width="670" height="472" width_o="2048" height_o="1443" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758557/Musick for gloggomobil2_o.jpg" data-mid="3589117" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758557/Musick for gloggomobil3.jpg" width="670" height="472" width_o="2048" height_o="1443" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758557/Musick for gloggomobil3_o.jpg" data-mid="3589121" border="0" align="left"/> Musick for bar items and rotating technology (Drill, Record player, Gramophone, Gloggomobil) was a site responsive performance, taking items from The Vaults’ current state of being (bar) and mixing them with mechanical items inspired by the historical watchmakers, metal-smiths and jewelers of the area. The performance involved playing the bottles (via the gloggomobil), resonating a rotating wine glass (attached to a record player) and amplifying the mechanical sounds of the wind up gramophone. A score was followed which was determined by finding patterns within the acoustic properties of the objects and utilising the Pythagorean scale. The tonic of the piece was based on the constant whine of the drill which powered the gloggomobil. Musick for Gloggomobil by sarahmfarmer Musick for bar items and rotating technology (Drill, Record player, Gramophone, Gloggomobil) was a site responsive performance, taking items from The Vaults’... http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Stairs-tuned-in-a-spiral-of-perfect-fifths http://www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk/following/sarahmfarmer.co.uk/Stairs-tuned-in-a-spiral-of-perfect-fifths Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:26:57 +0000 www.sarahmfarmer.co.uk 758532 Fullscreen <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02676.jpg" width="360" height="270" width_o="360" height_o="270" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02676_o.jpg" data-mid="3588901" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02664.jpg" width="270" height="360" width_o="270" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02664_o.jpg" data-mid="3588908" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02665.jpg" width="270" height="360" width_o="270" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02665_o.jpg" data-mid="3588912" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02671.jpg" width="360" height="270" width_o="360" height_o="270" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02671_o.jpg" data-mid="3588917" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02681.jpg" width="360" height="270" width_o="360" height_o="270" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02681_o.jpg" data-mid="3588928" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02683.jpg" width="360" height="270" width_o="360" height_o="270" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02683_o.jpg" data-mid="3588935" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02690.jpg" width="360" height="270" width_o="360" height_o="270" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/64076/758532/DSC02690_o.jpg" data-mid="3588940" border="0" align="left"/> Tuned stair bannisters Through altering the tension of the wire stair banisters, the stair case at g39 has been transformed into a musical instrument. Each of the 7 wires has been tuned to one of the 7 different notes in a Pythagorean scale. Pythagoras is credited for being the father of musical understanding as we know it. He established there was a mathematical reason for consonant sounds and thus developed a scale system using these simple fractions and formulae. Pythagoras believed in a ‘universal truth’ based on simple maths and that honoring these equations through geometry, astronomy and music would bring you closer to divinity. The notes of the stair case use the resonant frequency of the stair posts as the base note, or tonic, and increase by a ‘perfect fifth’ for each ascending string. This system of note generation developed by Pythagoras, (adding a perfect fifth on the base note, then adding a perfect fifth above that and so on) proved problematic within music, as it results in an infinite spiral of note generation, leading to the development of tempered tuning systems. Tuned stair bannisters Through altering the tension of the wire stair banisters, the stair case at g39 has been transformed into a musical instrument. Each of...