Tower Project at The Rix Centre Session Eight 24.09.14

Below is the programme for session eight. Find out more on our co-researchers Wiki

TOWER PROJECT EIGHT

TOWER PROJECT EIGHT

First we had a discussion about ideas for our event bringing sensory labels to the Enlightenment Gallery, we asked the group for their thoughts. There were many ideas including creating an audio guide of sensory soundscapes to link to chosen objects suggested by Judith and having a living statue which was Kelly’s idea when asked what conversation she would have with the statue she had chosen she said “somebody get me out of this museum I’ve been stuck in here for years!”. Sam wanted to create some kind of game where the goal is to discover the sensory labels in the gallery rather than have a guide map, she mentioned that there is often something like this for children but that people with learning disabilities would enjoy this too. Tim suggested we should have flags of the countries where the objects we have chosen come from to direct people to our sensory lables. Kate took notes of all the ideas and we will work on them over the next few weeks.

Discussion about sensory labels

Discussion about sensory labels

Nic gave a demo of triggers, he explained that a sound or movement on our sensory labels, currently triggered by a black button, could be triggered by stroking, he used Sian from Reading College’s Moot Boot to demonstrate the idea. The picture below shows Ryan stroking the Moot it moos when the fake fur cow hide is stroked. Nic also demoed Rachel’s pig which was triggered by a proximity sensor so when the person stood in front of it the sound and movement of the pig was triggered.

Stroking the Moot

Stroking the Moot

Nic also wanted to see if anyone remembered how some of the sensors worked from last week. He showed Adalana as she missed the last session.

Nic demos Triggers

Nic demos Trigger

The picture below shows Adjoa and Ryan demoing creating sounds with the littleBits synth kit.

Trying out Syth Kit

Trying out Syth Kit

Tim showed his Egyptian hieroglyph to the group. He had drawn a picture inspired by his object a small wooden Egyptian sarcophagus. He wanted to draw a modern object a plane in the style of Egyptian hieroglyphs, he also wrote his name. We then took a photo of his drawing and engraved the image in wood using a laser cutter. The drawing surface now embossed could be felt and it also had the smell of burnt wood.

Tim plane engraved

Tim’s plane engraved

We then worked more creating textures and sounds for our sensory labels. Adoja showed how she had used air hardening clay to create a model of the coral she has chosen she also added in some beeswax because it reminded her of the surface texture of the coral.

Adjoa with her model of coral

Adjoa with her model of coral

Katy, Ashley, Kelly and Ryan all made models with air hardening clay.

Clay work

Clay work

We also began to find sounds to build soundscapes for each object we will continue with this next week.

 

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