Sounds Make Sense

Suspended bike wheels, lights and rolling wheel rims.

Today we explored the sounds we could make using bike wheels. We took wooden sticks, running them over the spinning spokes. This made a great sound and lovely shadows on the floor.

We rolled the wheel rims across the floor, watching and listening to them as they lost momentum and wobbled to flat on the floor.

Sound

Over the next few weeks we will be creating soundscapes.

Today we explored different sounds using things to drop and roll on our large metal tray and our large cardboard boxes with different things inside. A microphone linked to the chaos pad enabled us to distort the sounds for example changing pitch levels or adding echoes.

Boxes

Inside Outside

A circle of stacked boxes with space inside. On the outside: shadows, projections and colour. Inside: a changing environment made by projected ipad drawings. Sounds on the boxes, music and smells added an extra experience.

Net

Week 2 Interactive Net Installation

Colour and Contour

Shaping, reshaping, changing the space using colour and sound; we projected abstract colour images using transparent coloured sheets which we could move and change and pre made slides.

Comments Today: 'It's like a computer graphic; 'It's the best installation so far'; 'Clouds, Sea, it could be anything'.

Ritual 7

Pendulums, swinging swirling sand and more.

Today Visual Arts and Sensory Arts worked together. We used pendulums filled with coloured sand to spread the colours over a large sheet of paper. We then drew additional shapes using brushes and sponges on sticks so we didn't tread too much on the art work. Smaller pictures were made using glue and dried powder paint, we can keep these.

We were also really lucky that Will Hurt was working  on his new project at Level. We were able to work with him to see what is is all about and to help him shape the work.
Wills work work can been seen at Purple Peach at Level Centre on tuesday  November 10th, 6.30-10 pm.




Smaller Pictures

Pendulum drawing

Wills work

and of course there was great music

Rituals 6

Shadow and Sand

We opened our session today with a bell ritual performed in shadow. Using a screen and back lighting we took turns to perform our different rituals using arm movements  and bell ringing. We followed this with vogue style movements both in front of and behind the screen, these can look  like hieroglyphic shapes.  We moved to rhythms created on the key board and a selection of drums. Today we were joined by the visual arts group creating sand shapes on black paper.

Ritual 3

Continuing with creating our own rituals, today we have made more rituals using bells, wood blocks and sounds and exploring repeated ritualistic movement. We also started painting a flag that will be used next week.

Ritual 2

Bells

Bells have always played a part in rituals and ceremonies. Today we have explored ringing and jingling sounds, creating and performing our own rituals with the bells.

Celebrating

Celebrating the life of Van Gough. 125 years ago on July 29th Vincent Van Gough died.
Sunflowers, French food, dance and music in a French Cafe. have a good summer everyone! See you in Spetember.

Changing Landscapes

Still exploring contours and landscapes, today we have been shaping using gravity and force.

From a large stretched net we created valleys,  mountains and underground caves and spaces.

Cave Painting
Today we have been creating our own cave paintings ready to decorate the cave next week.  First we explored movements and actions that could inspire us in our work. We moulded and moved our bodies and shaped ours too. Then, with clay on sticks we drew onto our cave floor, making one big picture.

Going Underground

In this Wednesday's sessions we travelled underground into a cave like environment to create our own cave paintings and prints. Inspired by artists from the Old Stone Age, we used clay and mud to create our designs and pictures.

Cave painting from Cresswell Crags

Sensations Re-Act

Soft Silk, Smells and Sensations.

Today we used a parachute we created a billowing silk tent that we could sit in.We introduced scented strips of fabric; greens, reds, orange and yellow; peppermint, lemon and vanilla. We had tastes of strawberries, oranges, lemons and peppermint creams. mmmm! Sharing soft sounds and memories we sat under our colour lit silken canopy. 
We won't be meeting for a couple of weeks so do join us on April 15th when our next series of session will start.

Sound, Colour  and Sculpture. Re-Act

Today was all about using the skills we have been working on over the past few weeks.  We made textural sounds to inspire movement and sculpture building; coloured by projected drawings and also visa versa! After spending sometime exploring what possible, we finished by all working together to create a space full of interesting sounds and music, movement with fixed and moving sculptures.

Colour Me Re-Act

Last Wednesday we created a space  of layered nets, paper and white light. Though the session our space changed as we made cascades of sculpted paper and added colour through digital drawings.

Sounds Re-Act

Our space was filled with cubicles of different  sounds. Metal, wood, drumskins,  keyboard  and microphone. We explored the different sounds that the instruments made and then played together to build a soundscape. Our grand finale  included solos and duets.

Lights, Shadows and Creepy creatures

Participants in Sensory Arts experimented with creating shadows with their bodies using stage lighting and torches.

White Light Re-Act

Today we experimented with shape, shadow and ultra violet light.  Threading, weaving and building sculptures to move through and in, we created an amazing event. We made rhythmical and lyrical sounds to add to our textural journey.

Light and Shadow

Today we explored shape and space between. Seeing through a hole, seeing around an edge, lighting through a gap, lighting a sculpture. We created amazing light shows and amazing spaces all accompanied by our live sounds and music.