[spectre] Reminder: A Collective Memory of Childhood

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Reminder: A Collective Memory of Childhood

Please join us for drinks to celebrate the launch of A Collective Memory 
of Childhood by Michael Szpakowski.

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

Artist and composer Michael Szpakowski has worked with local children 
and their families to create a generative sound sculpture that invokes 
the collective memory of childhood, drawing on the memories of Haringey 
residents from all over the world.

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 changes are constantly and kaleidoscopically, 
draw 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 2012.

The project is part of PARK ART in Haringey - an alternative, 
multi-venue sculpture park for the London Borough of Haringey, produced 
by UP Projects in partnership with Haringey Council and supported by 
Arts Council England.

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