Remapped, and remade...

Remapped again, this time to an area of Worle Community School at Weston-super-Mare. 6th & 7th July 2009.

This 2 day intensive workshop for student, staff, and visiting primaries, is the final part of the e-merge project.

e-merge remapped, as experience of the central London iconic sights here in Weston. Stimulus for discussion, and design of new content and a new format - 2 new mediascapes made with content created during the workshop by students from years 7, 8 and 9.

The second day visitors from 2 local primary schools joined us to experience 'Welcome to Worle' - a more conventional mscape with photos and sounds placed around the area. And 'e-merge Student Videos' - a filmmaking walk with the London videos replaced by 38 short videos of life at Worle.

Kukicha Live

Extract from the Kukicha gig at Bristol's FolkHouse with visuals by Jackie.
[Kukicha provided track 2 for the e-merge mediascape. 'Falling Sky' is a new piece, first performed in May 2009]

news from BEV

Harriet's video reports are up on the BEV blog - read and watch more about the mscape workshop and e-merge walkers (with me explaining it to them!)

Filming in the park

Two days later, through rain, snow (!), wind and sun, day and night... 800+ photos and several hours of video later...

The music sounds great wandering around the park. I found I was focusing on different content when listening to the different tracks, so it'll be interesting to see how/if that's reflected in editing and in the walks themselves.

I've tested out a short version of Something More in the park, to check a few things like gps trace, playlist and log, pace etc, and have a good 'to-do' list ready to go...

Thanks to Niki and Graham at the Royal Parks for being so helpful and interested in the mediascape. I'm hoping to get the go-ahead to be able to include some images from an historical survey of the park, made 28 years ago, and full of interesting snippets, maps and snaps since it's origins in 1531. That may be the subject of a future post...

And thanks to Zeph & Mima for the usual overnight accomodation. And a fun night out at the Club Zigana Swedish Klezmer evening. Romanian sausages kept me from feeling cold or hungry all the next day! Bon apetit! Or rather - bună !