September 2008
33 posts
painting van advice →
Alan Lomax :travelling folk song recorder →
random thing I just was reading about a guy who used to travel around collecting folk songs - apparently he recorded ‘House of the rising sun’ by taking his ‘recording equipment’ to some random singer’s house - otherwise it might have been lost.. Is there between collecting songs and collecting memories/stories?
Ladder To The Moon's website →
Time Wont Wait - creative producers →
Link to the Science Museum info on MEMORY →
A quote from the Science Museum website
Laying down new memories
A part of your brain called the hippocampus is vital for forming newmemories. Scientists think that the experiences making up a memory are sent from the senses to the cortex, then on to areas surrounding the hippocampus. These ‘bind’ the memory together, before it is sent to the hippocampus itself, where information about context or location is added.
A late night silly idea ...
I just had a half formed silly idea whilst I was in the bath that might give the frozen memory thing a bit more of a narrative - although its also a little bit dark so I’m not sure if its going the right way but anyway…
the story is there are a couple of kids in a sort of sinister city who start noticing that all the old people around them are losing their memories - a bit like how...
Email pitch to Clarisa sept 08
The Frozen Memory Project (working title).
Sam Woolf and Bronia Evers
This is a project about two very valuable things: memory, and childhood. It is about communicating to children living now the childhood experiences of older generations who may have grown up in very different circumstances.
The entire premise of our project is based around a very simple metaphor; the idea that memories could...
http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/ →
History of 20thcentury London project, Mayors...
This project is happening going in to next year….the BFI plans to be involved too….
There’s a whole section on teh site about being a child in 20th c. London, have a look…….
http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/
Virginia Woolf's Orlando...freezing time in ice
I’ve been looking for the scene where Orlando describes time stopping (?), and seeing people frozen under the River Thames…I’ll keep searching for it, but for now here’s a clever- sounding essay from someone about Virginia Woolf, Orlando and Time…
Resisting the Clock: Dissolving Time in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
By Annie Sullivan
Woolf rejects a conventional...
Buntport Theatre website →
Theatre for One- Lempen puppets, and FESTIVAL LIST →
Link to Media Desk funding call for interactive... →
Link to a review of X trax festival of outdoor... →
X trax - the Tone Float was here, and several other interactive pieces. Manchester festival, it seems to be annual so next one would be June 2009…
(imaginary) pitch to British Library
Frozen Memory Pitch - this was for the pitching excercise to Sybile. Not sure she entirely understood it however… she thought it was all about pavlov and mind control!
Pitchee : British Library
This is a project about two very valuable things: memory, and childhood. It is about communicating to children living now the childhood experiences of older generations who may have grown up in...
Friday morning session with actors (bronia's...
We used our childs eye view diary entries from Wednesday, read them to the actors and asked them to improvise around the characters of (a) Sam’s ice cream seller and his role and (b) Bronia’s two characters, Mr Bartailed Goddwitt and Miss Meadow Pippit.
General comments:
The session felt quite awkward in some ways, though some useful things came out of it. At the route of the...
More notes on Friday session with actors (bronia)
- Catherine’s patter had a riddle-like quality- “never spin….”and this is something I’d be interested in exploring for the character of the ice cream seller. A style of speech which suggests, wisdom, perhaps something of the wise fool / the trickster, eg Feste in Twelth Night. Ben Kingsley is not the best Feste I could hope for but the clip below will do to show the riddles in the...
Bronia's notes on Thursday morning discussion
Discussion re Rome project, Hero and antagonist, Antagonist eg Satan in paradise lost, is most interesting character. Further discussion re morality and the two routes the hero can take to get home – collaborative (harder, more rewarding) or selfish (instant gratification, easier, turns hero slowly into a robot?).
Discussion re. Frozen Time. Idea of a “currency” for memories. Is an in depth ...
Thursday late morning discussion and afternoon...
Late morning - Trying to plan what to do with the actors. Difficult and it all seems a bit too like it has to be a sort of scientific experiment which I find confusing. An experiment of this nature would be interesting in its own right but perhaps won’t tell us that much about how to take our project forward? Not sure.
Come up with a plan:
Exercise 1: Play Martin (waiter from the hotel)’s memory...
After deciding that the focus of our project would...
Bronia's (fictional) user's diary
Paul set us an excercise to write a fictional diary from a users perspective - written after experiencing our project. Here is Bronia’s one:
Today an ice cream van came to our school.
I saw it first because I was late hanging up my coat on the pegs by the window in the corridor and I saw them through the window. They drove in to the playground which is normally not allowed unless you have a...
Sam's fictional user's diary
I had a fantastic day at the Hayfields festival. The best thing I saw was The Frozen Memory Van.At first I thought this was a normal Ice Cream Van but I could see straightaway that there was something slightly different about it. For one thing there seemed to be a lot of people waiting outside it but they didn’t look like they were waiting to be served - more like they were waiting for something...
day 1 pygamlion
we made lego models: 3 exercises. 1: make sth out of lego, it can be anything…..2: make sth for someone, 3: make for someone but capture the process..
(we will post images of our creations later when Sam finds the cable for his camera!).
outcomes (Bronia) ex. 1: v. easy and flowing, no pressure and can make whatever. enjoyed process, and notced i like to stretch a material and make it do...