A Great Week of Cargoeing ...

... Monday was a fabulous day for many reasons: Mainly having us all there together for the first time. It was great to meet Charles, Jennie and Michael at last, having cooed over their work so far, to meet Jo again properly, and of course to see Chrys (always a pleasure cabin-mate!).
It goes without saying that seeing Debs and Megan again was like coming back to a familiar holiday destination with associated fond memories.

Secondly was the opening of Jennie, Charles and Jo's cargoes. Lots more cooing all round. Beautiful stuff and loads to get the response taste buds flowing.

I don't want to jump the gun too much here but with some ideas already brewing for my final response, it all started coming together when we opened the envelopes and the crate. After a couple of research visits to Beaumanor Hall and Bletchley over the next two days, here's a visual clue as to my immediate response and the direction the cargoes are sending me:

 

(Hope you like this one Charles)

 

 

 

The recordings I made of the deciphering machines could not be separated out from the sound of a loom, if you had to choose. Long strings of paper, thread, lace, sounds, waves, walks ... etc. This is really exciting. 

Can't wait to see where it goes next. 

K

Cargo exchange

Well, that was a terrific handover of all sorts of cultural cargo. Thank you to Rick, Amy, Hasmita and all who helped make a wonderful hand over event. 


Great to see the cargo. Thank you to Charles for his exciting work. I look forward to spending more time with it - although my brain has been lighting some fires in the cerebellum region since I left the narrowboat. Really nice to see the thread (!) between works evolving from Kathrine's excellent sound piece. 


Also great to see Michael, Chrys and Jennie's Cargo.


Here are a couple of pictures of the wrapping and label from my cargo to Charles and an example of one of the eight mounted images inspired by the idea of sound as cargo (from Kathrine's piece) and transmission as the vehicle. The old BBC World Service site sitting on Borough Hill in Daventry overlooks the Grand Union Canal.

Bright Sparks at Glenfield Hospital

Inspired afternoon with the Bright Sparks at Glenfield with Chrys.  What a great response again, they listened to the sounds of the canal walk at Foxton, they listen to the hydrophone recordings at Watermead and they drew and drew. Just looking at this set of pictures shows how well it went and big thank you to Chrys who had to work twice as hard as I was a few degrees less than perfect.

michael

Braunstone Park Art Club

Cargoes have come, boats have passed, words have been said, joy has been spread.
But still the workshops keep giving and on wednesday I was with the delightful old folk at Braunstone Park Art Club, five of the members being over 80 years of age and yet in some weird way I felt the oldest and the one with the least marbles.....What a great bunch and they got the idea of drawing sounds really quickly and then fell in love with the concept, a few saying they will now sit in their gardens and draw the sounds they hear.  Another cargo for the narrow boats.

michael

Quality of Life, Leicester

What can I say? a great team who are doing great things. 

(above) A selection of 'walking scores' responding to the sounds of a walk along Foxton Lock.

and then ....  (below) a collection of words and phrases marking out the journey around the 'Quality of Life'  building,  a personal and very meaningful journey illustrated. Other journeys around the building are on the flickr photostream, including journeys of sounds, metal, blue and others.

I often find myself  talking about the Olympics in terms of personal achievement, team work and well being , what better examples of this are there ?

Well done 'Quaity of Life' and Thank you. I had a fab time, I hope you did too.

Chrys