Sound Mobile︎︎︎
I shall call the last exercise A Sound Mobile because it is concerned with sounds that are in motion. Like the others, it needs to be organized in advance. The idea is that within a certain area of several blocks specific sounds produced by volunteers may be heard along with the general hubbub of the city during a certain period of time. The sounds are not so extraordinary as to be out of context and are made by the volunteers as they move about the streets or through shops.
A shopping day with busy streets would be the best time to try this out. At the start the participants are given a list of the sounds they are tolisten for and I told the area of town in which the sounds will be found -say four blocks square. When they hear one of the sounds, the approach the maker and will be given a card or coupon. The first person to bring back a complete set of coupons is the winner.
Examples of sounds I have used:
-A bicycle with a flapper int he wheel
-A shrill police whitsle
-A dog with a bell on its collar
-A person with a tapping cane
-A radio tuned to the noise between stations, hidden in a purse.
Such exercises or games as these (and others that could be deviced) are intended to increase public awareness of all sounds in the environment. They are not mearley children's games, and I've played them with people of all ages.
A shopping day with busy streets would be the best time to try this out. At the start the participants are given a list of the sounds they are tolisten for and I told the area of town in which the sounds will be found -say four blocks square. When they hear one of the sounds, the approach the maker and will be given a card or coupon. The first person to bring back a complete set of coupons is the winner.
Examples of sounds I have used:
-A bicycle with a flapper int he wheel
-A shrill police whitsle
-A dog with a bell on its collar
-A person with a tapping cane
-A radio tuned to the noise between stations, hidden in a purse.
Such exercises or games as these (and others that could be deviced) are intended to increase public awareness of all sounds in the environment. They are not mearley children's games, and I've played them with people of all ages.
︎︎︎from last excersise from Murray Schafer’s a Sound Education.
Welcome to mapping collaboration, a toolbox for workshopping and creating across disciplines...
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
The inspiration for this project came from faculty and students at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts where BFA, MFA and PhD programs in Dance, Theatre Production and Design, Visual Art, Film, and Music and Sound all work together in studio settings and playfully experiment with processes of art-making.
We wanted to create a database of projects, assignments and theory that we collect inside the studio and from research happening in other places. We are curious about how we collaborate and how structures reoccur, translate and deviate from one discipline to another.
Composition is central to these processes and offers a base for our approaches and experiments. We are excited about what our students are doing and inspired by the new languages in contemporary art and performance we continue to see develop.
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︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own
︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
