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

Swamp.

Squelchy, sucking mud; damp, dripping spaces; dark, dank caves, warm enclosing corners. Today we have been through them, around them and in them. With layers of textured sound inspiring us, we explored the environment, changing and adding to it as we went.

Geological Journeys

This year Level Centre will be exhibiting at Cresswell Crags as part of the Limestone Journeys Project so today we started our journey, exploring  texture, contour, light, dark, layers and all kinds of themes inspired by geology. We have started with mud, glorious mud; it's texture and qualities. After creating a swamp we travelled through, over and under it. The amazing vocal sounds and keyboard music produced by our performers inspired some fantastic atmospheric movement and imagery.

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.