Attending as a family, Laura and August are intending on developing a project in collaboration with their children. The focus will be on relating sound and image/craft in a fun and playful ways accessible to young persons while conceptually interesting for adults as well. They will be making a portable system for making music in nature.
First step is to search and collect natural objects around PIFcamp and capture the sounds of those different objects. The next step is arranging objects (rocks, sticks, leaves) on top of a long handwoven blanket with patterning to support object placement and then running the camera over the blanket, from start to end. That will control the playback and recording. The system will utilize our experience developing interactive camera-based web applications, August’s expertise in real-time audio synthesis, and Laura’s experience weaving. Plan is to create a system that is highly portable, playful, and keeps the majority of the interaction in and with nature.