20.11.08
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Really busy finalising the dishes, still on target for Friday ... just! The dishes are looking superb.
Really busy finalising the dishes, still on target for Friday ... just! The dishes are looking superb.
Artec have been working hard to meet the deadline - hugely appreciated by everybody involved in the project. They've sent through these images, not of the dishes, not yet, but of the form used to make the dishes. Tantalising!


Drafting the website for downloading the audio and soundwalk instructions: go here for a preview >> Soundwalk Downloads
I have loads I could put up here now... but the truth is, with the launch just 7 days away, I am just too busy. See you next weekend?
You may not be aware reading the blog recently that we still don't have planning permission. But a bit like another important announcement today coming from across the Atlantic, we will hear this morning from Kirklees Council if we've been successful... Will keep you posted!
Had a great visit to Slaithwaite on Monday 27th - fabulous autumnal weather, as you can see. 9 hours in the car round trip but well worth it. Finally met Desmond in the flesh! and now so close to installation. Me being the dishes:
Everybody say, 'acoustic mirrors!'
Desmond, Neil (Kirklees Council), Heidi (HCMF), and Cate (RCST)
Well, after holding my breath for a while things are rocketing forward ... a big relief. I now have dates in my diary for a site visit to peg out the space for the concrete pads that the dishes will sit on, and also for transportation of the dishes. Here are some realisations of what it all should look like at the site (thanks to Heidi at HCMF):


Progress is suspended at the moment while we wait for planning permission. Although it may have taken a little longer to finalise things to get to this point (mainly by me getting to spend time on site), we're still hopefully on schedule.
In the mean time Desmond made a trip to Artec and I made a trip to Istanbul. So it's time for some holiday snaps! First Artec, this is the lathe used for spinning large dishes

and aluminium ready for the lathe:

Thanks to Desmond for those. And while while Desmond was there I was bobbing around the Bospherus to escape the heat of Istanbul. Here're two snaps, inside and out, of the 500 year-old 'new mosque':
It wasn't all fun, fun, fun: I managed to make some field recordings of this wonderfully sounding city in between and during the boat rides, sight seeing, kebabs, fresh fish sandwiches, ayran, tea, locum, Turkish hospitality... take me back!!!
" Really busy finalising the dishes, still on target for Friday ... just! The dishes... "
Matt's Sound Sculpture" Artec have been working hard to meet the deadline - hugely appreciated by everybody... "
Matt's Sound Sculpture" Drafting the website for downloading the audio and soundwalk instructions: go... "
Matt's Sound Sculpture