Hey fellow light makers, we are on!! Was so good to meet with Fiona today and share our thoughts from the previous week. Such an intense time with everyone with their own personal universes in such turmoil, with both wonderful and sad news all at once, Wanda we love you, Magdy we love you, Fiona we love you, and hope all your own cyclones pass soon - Dave too with the literal cyclone! (but such is the richness and depth and sadness and extremity of life.)
Just to summarize preliminary thoughts, with a very limited budget we can make a five or six sided free standing piece that is a little bit higher than human height, with three panels per side of about 60cm width, that bolt together. We each make the first one of the side and pass it on to the next person for their response, and then to the next, till the panels are completed. In my thinking six sides would work better here between three of us, starting with 2 panels each: also in terms of the total size, five sides at 60cm wide makes about a metre diameter, which might be a bit small to house the rotating rotisserie light - what do you think?
I asked Fiona about whether she wanted to make a visual panel, but she was happy to focus on the sound and maybe make suggestions as to the content of the panel as reflecting the sound concept (also given time and budget constraints this could be a good idea). Fiona was quite enamored with the idea of working with the rotisserie motor sound - you might want to elaborate on that Fiona????
In terms of interactivity, Fiona and I discussed having a button or sensor maybe on every second panel, as one on every panel might make the sound too congested, and possibly soundtracks that work with the rotisserie motor sound, that could overlay it and work with it. These could be small sensor activated speakers such as in the Light Boxes, and we would need to incorporate them into the visual design somehow, as they would give out a localised sound. They are about 10 x 10cm, is that right Fiona? there is also the possibility of larger speakers located in and around the space operated by the TDU. . . .
Anyway just kick-starting the conversation, meanwhile I'll apply for some more funding, although there are not many options . . would be so much better if we could come up with something for the August/September deadlines for Arts QLD and the Australia Council; Fiona suggested thinking of this as pilot project that we could use to develop further with better funding .. my biggest apologies for not getting more $, the way the deadlines are, Aug/Sept our our best chance, and at that time last year I was still digesting what we had done and wasn't really able to think about a possible future project.
xxxTrace
