CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE

dec 27 - 30th 2007 (resident 17th dec - 6th jan)

A performance collaboration workshop with Savvas Papasavva and Craig Kao, part of 'Strange events permit themselves the luxury of occurring'. First we brainstormed, made a mess, then made a show from those ideas, then the kids arrived, made more mess, broke some of our work, we mended it, then we tore it all down and made a new show. A visitor described the takedown day, during which we remained open to the public, as 'the most entertianing way of gradually dismantling something' he had ever seen.

INTERACTIVE INSTRUMENT: cheap keyboard hacked + relay - based computer + tinfoil floor + can

CAT: Uses two ultrasonic detectors to make its way around the space MORE

TRAIN TAPE: A model train pulls a modified tape recorder along a strip of audio tape

MAGNETIC FIELD DETECTOR: I moved the tape reader head from the inside to the outside of the tape player used in Tape Train above.

DOUBLE TRACK: Loosely based on Paolozzi's Newton, which was part of the main show

TRAIN TUNE: A train drags a wire over tinfoil, both of which are connected to a hacked keyboard microchip. Built from the leftovers after dismantling the first instrument