Exploring sound and computer/phone/tablet microphones. Activity led by Jenny Pengilly
1. Suggest a warm up activity for the group to do
16:10:36 From Alice Gale-Feeny : The YES game: everyone makes a statement, any statement, true or false, and the group must respond with an enthusiastic ‘YES!!!!!’
16:11:27 From Bryony Hussey : One person, perhaps the facilitator, using the index finger, draws in the air an object near their screen for others to make down on paper. The others have to draw what they see as a continuous line.
16:11:34 From Alice Gale-Feeny : Assemblage of objects on screen. Artist florence peake led a workshop where we made assemblages live on zoom, pointing our screen towards a desk or an area of our carpet. It wasn’t an ice breaker, but could function as one in this context.
16:12:11 From Alice Gale-Feeny : so we would need to collect some objects to assemble
16:12:20 From Small Acts : Exit and enter the frame…
16:13:00 From Jenny Pengilly : Exquisite corpse with your body going down the tiles e. head, body, legs
16:13:05 From Sadie Edginton : One person starts a chain of asking questions - and passes it on - ‘I really want to know… ‘ and choose someone to ask. i.e. and fill out the end of the question (nothing to personal).. and then pass the chain on.
16:13:18 From Alexandra Parry : Describe another member of the groups background
16:13:44 From Cicilia Östholm : Conventional: WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU RIGHT NOW?
16:13:48 From Jenny Pengilly : Synchronised movement as a group
16:14:19 From Youngsook Choi : One question that is related to the theme of the workshop and everyone responds by changing their zoom name.
16:14:32 From Cicilia Östholm : Unconventional: TAKE A SIP OF YOUR BEVERAGE AND TELL US WHAT IT IS. (IF YOU DON’T HAVE ONE TELL US WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE LIKED.)
16:16:48 From Cicilia Östholm : Purely out of curiosity: TELL US WHAT YOUR ZOOM CALL SET UP IS LIKE. (How do you prepare for a zoom call?)
2. What parts of Zoom can be played with?
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3. Sadie then presented an activity. Each participant wrote a response to Sadie's question that relates to their practice. For example what tool do you often use in your work?
16:50:48 From whoop : TOOL:
16:50:52 From Cicilia Östholm : camera
16:50:55 From Jenny Pengilly : Senses
16:50:58 From Alice Gale-Feeny : Improvisation
16:50:58 From sunny : pen
16:50:59 From Bryony Hussey : humour
16:50:59 From Youngsook Choi : Stories
16:51:03 From whoop : Process
16:51:04 From Katie Etheridge : Conversation
16:51:17 From whoop : MATERIAL
16:51:19 From Katie Etheridge : Body
16:51:20 From sunny : text
16:51:21 From Jenny Pengilly : Adaptable
16:51:24 From whoop : tEMPORARY
16:51:27 From Bryony Hussey : spoon
16:51:28 From Alice Gale-Feeny : subjective
16:51:30 From Youngsook Choi : Scripts
16:51:34 From Cicilia Östholm : material Clay object scalpel
16:51:42 From Youngsook Choi : Needle and thread
16:51:50 From whoop : COLOUR
16:52:04 From Alice Gale-Feeny : Purple!
16:52:05 From sunny : yellow
16:52:06 From Katie Etheridge : Blue and Red Together
16:52:07 From Jenny Pengilly : yellow
16:52:07 From whoop : porridge
16:52:07 From Bryony Hussey : orange
16:52:09 From Youngsook Choi : Orange
16:52:31 From Cicilia Östholm : Lipsticky hot pink magenta-ish
16:52:28 From whoop : WORD YOU LIKE
16:52:33 From Jenny Pengilly : Sloppy
16:52:36 From Youngsook Choi : Mum
16:52:36 From Katie Etheridge : Sausage
16:52:37 From sunny : pull
16:52:38 From Alice Gale-Feeny : Reflexive
16:52:41 From Bryony Hussey : messy
16:52:47 From whoop : Kerfuffle
16:52:48 From Cicilia Östholm : (Didn’t have a fave word)
16:53:13 From whoop : APPROACH
16:53:39 From Jenny Pengilly : Silly, playful, adsurd
16:53:39 From Alice Gale-Feeny : emergent
16:53:42 From Bryony Hussey : walking
16:53:42 From Katie Etheridge : Responsive
16:53:49 From whoop : Improvise spontaneous
16:53:52 From Cicilia Östholm : Strategies
16:53:57 From Jenny Pengilly : Informal!
16:54:04 From whoop : PEOPLE:
16:54:14 From Jenny Pengilly : person-led
16:54:16 From Alice Gale-Feeny : working with speech
16:54:22 From Katie Etheridge : the people who are there / communities of interest
16:54:24 From Alice Gale-Feeny : from solo to group
16:54:27 From Cicilia Östholm : peer-to-peer teaching and learning OR getting someone to tutor me
16:54:38 From Bryony Hussey : isolated
16:54:44 From Youngsook Choi : Communities of interest, audience
16:54:54 From whoop : Self-led? Collective? methods for how to get others involved
Participants went into 2 groups. Each group chooses a response from each category and explores making a workshop activity from it.
4. Jenny Pengilly then led two activities exploring the cameras on our devices as well as exploring the sound and microphones. When we explored our cameras we experimented with our position in relation to the camera for example standing at distance, lying on floor with camera, having the camera high up. We then started walking with our cameras, finding ourselves at our front doors filming the sky in our respective locations. We explored inbult microphones by making sounds using objects close to hand (see top of page for an example of this).
