Wellington Calling

The next stage of the project is to develop ideas for a couple of test soundscapes for different sites and to see what the interest might be. One site will be at Wellington Station, which provides lots of possibilities to test out ideas including historical and contemporary sound recordings. Another site might be at Otari School where I am working with students already and they have started their own sound map, this could be expanded to include a wider area including the native reserve next door and perhaps interviews with local residents.
The pilot projects will be small in scale but hopefully provide lots of useful information and throw up potential problems before making funding applications, also I intended to explore the possibilities of working with some other organisations to help support the project.

Elsdon Best recording Iehu Nukunuku playing a flute, 1923

Sound Map

As part of my work with students at Otari School in Wellington we have been mapping the school grounds and have made a series of maps including a sound map. We shall be doing some more work on its development next term and it has been interesting to explore the area's sounds, especially the sounds the children make in the playground during breaks. I have worked in a number of primary schools and the sounds the children make in the playground seem very similar, which I could test if I had recorded them all.

Wellington Calling - Sites?

Wellington Calling

I have been working on the Wellington Calling ideas and to help with thinking I have been doing some visual thinking. The images are mock ups of various places around Wellington that could be used  for the project as well as some thinking pictures.

Portal Posters

More Portals

It has been awhile since posting here but I have been developing new ideas and changing old ones, but even if some of these ideas do not develop any further I can keep a record of them here.

At present the idea for the project is to develop a community based project centred on Newtown in Wellington. A couple of reasons for this, one I have moved to Wellington, secondly Newtown sits above Alaejos in Spain. The map above shows Mein Street in Newtown and below is a street in Alaejos, which by my, not absolutely perfect working out and use of the antipodean map tool, are pretty close to matching each other on each side of the earth.

The project is still in the early planning stages but I have put some of the initial ideas on a Prezi here, mostly so I can keep track of the ideas and how they develop.

Portal on Prezi