Archive for July, 2011

Landscape and Industry exhibition catalog

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Open publication – Free publishing – More industry Landscape and Industry exhibition catalog

Sonic bus tour No.2 feedback

Friday, July 29th, 2011

After the first bus tour out to Poole’s trading estates a few tweaks were made to the audio commentary. This made our second trip very popular indeed. The biggest issue seemed to have come from the top deck, where people had entered into the reminiscences of the tour and were busy talking to the friends on the bus about their memoirs. Some of the other passengers though took offence to this talk as a distracting noise and asked that they be quieter. For myself I’d introduced the audio guide as like overhearing someone talking on a bus, so the fact that others had joined in I see as a positive. It was like watching the John Krish documentaries at the cinema and hearing people chat “do you remember using a cooker like that” in the film. I see it as part of the communal experience of cinema, or in this instance the bus tour.

Feedback from first sonic bus tour

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Feedback from first sonic bus tour was all very positive, except one couple who’d expected a guided tour like a commercial bus Co offer in places like Bath and London. Main negative, which I agree with, is not being able to time the sounds to the place. I’d hazard a guess to where the bus [...]

framework:afield – Dartmoor soundscape

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

This framework:afield documents the creative collaboration between Devon Arts in School, South Dartmoor Community College, 271 Year 8 students and Joe Stevens, as part of The School Looks Around. The audio features a Dartmoor soundscape with the students description of the landscape, in a combination of spoken word and background sounds.

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