[spectre] A Collective Memory of Childhood

[marc]

A Collective Memory of Childhood

25 July - 23 September 2012
http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/collective-memory-childhood

Artist and composer Michael Szpakowski has worked with local people to 
create a generative sound sculpture that invokes the collective memory 
of childhood that people bring to Haringey from all over the world. Part 
of PARK ART in Haringey - an alternative, multi-venue sculpture park for 
the London Borough of Haringey.

Through a series of celebratory events at Coleridge Primary School and 
Furtherfield Gallery, Michael gathered field recordings of children’s' 
rhymes: playground, skipping, clapping and those of other games from 
three generations of local residents, in every language that is spoken 
locally. These are mixed with fragments of a magical and gentle Summer 
music that he will compose to fit with the sounds of the park - working 
with modal and pentatonic scales and scoring for bells, flutes, harps 
and singing bowls.

The resulting immersive soundscape, with fragments of children’s rhymes 
spoken by many generations it changes constantly and kaleidoscopically, 
drawing on the texts and music in endless variations will be audible 
during opening hours in the area around the gallery and spill over into 
the adventure playground from July to September 2011.


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