http://willschrimshaw.net/log Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:37:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've spent most of this week in a beautifully decrepit building in Liverpool which houses a number of artists [pictures here]. Sarah Nicolls and I have been carrying out some experiments into the use of motors and other actuators to play the insides of various pianos. This is part of ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/07/a-new-machine/ There is danger this going a bit "American Beauty", if you know what I mean... I emerged from Raviv Ganchrow's inwound space [more on this will follow] into the end of a day at Potsdamer. [stereo, headphones] http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/07/stalls/ Berlin is littered with building sites that are gradually filling in the city's gaps. The familiar metal mesh fences that surround such sites are ubiquitous. There is, however, a subtle difference to those I'm used to seeing around Newcastle: the fences in Berlin are prepared, they are fitted with rattlers, ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/07/prepared-fences/ The Little Helpers are going to Berlin as part of the Tuned City festival: Tuned City - Between sound and space speculation is an exhibition and conference project planned for July 01.-05. 2008 in Berlin which proposes a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the acoustic. The project draws ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/06/tuned-city/ I'll be giving a presentation of some work in progress at the forthcoming Sketching Interactions workshop at Culture Lab, Newcastle. My part in what looks set to be an interesting day of presentations and discussions will be quite informal, probably looking at uses of 'authoring' tools such as SuperCollider, Arduino ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/06/sketching-interactions/ Last week I had the pleasure of playing with Paolo Angeli again. He's a fantastic musician to play with, incredibly responsive. We recorded a piece which will be released some time later in the year. I'll post something up here once it's available. For the recording session I played the drums ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/04/paolo-angeli/ Archieater is a project in its sketchbook phase that aims to push the sound of a room through its own resonant frequency. The resonant frequency is determined by generating a spectral map of a space through monitoring the distortions of white noise as it is played out into the space. ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/04/archieater/ Molly Wright Steenson of Active Social Plastic, has written a nice summary of some of Philippe Rahm's architectural practice. His work seems fascinating and I've spent most of the day reading what I can online about his work. This is the first encounter I've had with his work, but ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/04/intensive-architecture/ Here's an excerpt from a performance I did in Huddersfield on 7th March: schrimshawHudders.mp3 (8.7MB / 9.5min). Here's what went in the programme: The performance makes use of a variety of open circuits into which the body and performance space can enter, activating a conductive auditory field. Gaps in home made ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/04/cutter/ There are now five Little Helpers. Two are a bit buggy but I'm getting there. In the next few weeks I'll have 10-15. Here's a few images and a video clip from some tests that I've been doing: 1.9MBReset buttons need adding to the circuit boards as occasionally there are issues starting ... http://willschrimshaw.net/log/2008/04/more-helpers/