developments for Straightening out the petals exhibt @ City Festival 18th aug-27th aug

Developments for solo show - Straightening out the petals exhibition at City Festival, Leicester, UK.

Saturday 18 August - Monday 27 August 2018
Preview event: Friday 17 August 2018, 5 - 7.30pm

Workshops
Saturday 9th August 2018 – Creating jack in the boxes with sound 
Saturday 26th August 2018 – Darren O Brian's Audio Adventure around castle gardens and riverbank
Location/s – Newarke Houses Gallery, Leicester, LE1 5XZ

​Using interactive sound, installation, photography and clay.......

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Looking, collecting, thinking, researching, playing with, taking part in.....

The Ornament, plants, animals, child's play, clay, home, house, sound recordings, interested in jack in the box as a toy and re-creating with written sounds, Gaudi, trees and bones, swans, history of "pop goes the weasel", water, waves, ripples, mold-making, sculpting, Darren O'Brien's Audio Adventure, mindful listening, isolating and also laying sound, the sea, earth, materials from the land, matter.

Darren O'Brien's workshop, Audio Adventure. 

A collection from Sutton on Sea... later to be used for areas of the boxes - spent recording sounds, photographing. 

Anna Carlsso assisting in the studio (accidentally made a portrait on the table with the clay). 

3 x 8 segment conical approximation of tractrix horn designed specifically for the vocal range. 

I'm using a Octohorn for some of the recordings for inside the boxes - it an amazing design and really enchanted me at the R10 Electronic event last friday. As i'm working with these ornaments i'm thinking about what they hear and the sound inside the box playing out. 

Designed and made by the talented Jim Frize.   

Mould for a jack in the box - possible music box. Bones, water and trees. 

Straightening out the petals exhibition
Saturday 18 August - Monday 27 August 2018
Opening times: 11am - 3pm
Preview event: Friday 17 August 2018, 5 - 7.30pm

​Workshops-
Saturday 9th - Creating jack in the boxes with sound 
Saturday 26th Darren O Brian's Audio Adventure around castle gardens and river bank
Location/s Newarke Houses Gallery, Leicester, LE1 5XZ
Leicester Festivals & Events Newarke Houses Museum Leicester Arts & Museums Service supported by Arts Council England