Interactive Instruments - Performance #2

Wow!

Friday night was over-whelming and an incredible success. Claire & I were invited by Thingamajigs to present two of the project instruments (Sound Swing & Bubble Organ) at a DIY art street festival called SubZERO. Let's just say that we had no idea what a big deal this was...

We set them up in a deserted street with a number of other artists. Then all of a sudden, 6 hours had passed and something like 1000 complete strangers had played, discussed and listened to our instruments.

Here it is in full swing:

(the woman playing the glass jars on the approach is Danishta Rivero - really interesting music)


Between us we spoke to pretty much everyone who stopped by, whilst showing how to use the instruments to make new sounds. We were amazed and delighted at how truly captivated people were with these creations, which subsequently served as perfect social objects to talk about CMT and the project. We let people interested in more information take postcards, which ended up being hundreds from a complete age range. It even got to the point where people were actually coming back to find us a second time.

This is the postcard: (double-sided)

Come the end we were past exhaustion and filled with enthusiasm, being not quite sure what just happened. CMT awareness was definitely raised in a very positive way, and I can only hope that we inspired some inventing & experimentation over the weekend.