We arrived in the Museum Building around 6pm with loads of recording equipment. We had three stills cameras, three video cameras, one H4 recorder, three tripods, two high quality speakers, one amp, one laptop, two microphones, a couple of LED lights, some funky bouncy "eyeballs" with embedded LED lights, one golf ball and a bag of marbles. We had a list of several experiments that we wanted to conduct. The idea was to bring the building alive (or better, let it "express itself") and experiment with the spatial quality of its environment by extracting and adding sound and light.
A short list of the experiments we carried out follows:
Experiment No.4: Take photos at five minute intervals from opposite sides of the building with cameras mounted on tripods to capture nuances of light as daylight faded.
Experiment No.5: record sounds of the building using the H4 recorder and create new ones by striking the building surfaces with marbles.
Experiment No.6: record Killian playing the didgeridoo in the middle of the main hall.
Experiment No. 7: execute 60 second musical piece created by Dara which involved clapping, singing musical notes, saying things in English, Irish, Chinese and Portuguese and hissing sounds.
Experiment No.8: use sounds recorded in the building and create a feedback loop using a microphone and speaker and make a recording of it.
Experiment No.9: release a golf ball and a few marbles from top of staircase and record the sound of them as they fall down the steps.
Experiment No.10: Take long exposure photos of building while we move around the space with led lights and funky LED "eyeballs" creating patterns of light outlining features of the building and also words (such as "Manifesto" and "Hello!".
Experiment No.11: Create stop motion animation of Killian descending staircase by taking photos of him in the same stance from each step.
We finished at 11pm. It was a very long session but it was enjoyable and we are happy with the outcome. We will be analysing and editing the data this week.
Check out the rough cut of the video recording we did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLScvg3n7o
Marcos.
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