DAY 09

Finally! After long hours of sewing and knitting we eventually managed to finish our installation. Each material represents different site - St Peter's Square, Whitworth Art Gallery, Afflecks Palace and Mancunian Way. The shape is the transition of a sound wave received from our recordings. However exciting it sounds, it was very time - consuming idea. Although, worth it!

DAY 08

Today was a long day of construction process. We began with stapling down the mesh and hammering the legs in to create the frames of our installation. After that we moved on to stitching through the threads and then sewing in the sound waves of St. Peter's Square and Whitworth Art Gallery. We still need to add 2 more waves tomorrow but however knitting is quite a tiring task we are enjoying ourselves while doing it!

DAY 07

Today we spray painted our laser cut elements. We also prepared metal poles and finalised the drawings for the final booklet. Next step: sewing and assembling all the pieces together!

DAY 06

After presenting and discussing our installation idea with the coordinators we processed to laser cutting the wooden elements in order to assemble them later on. Throughout the rest of the day we worked on the analysis necessary for the booklet.

DAY 05

On Friday evening we participated in the Manachester Wakes: Workers at Play event at Central Library. We saw the building through various performances such as ukulele band, classical music, choirs and experiments with soundspace becoming more conscious of the sound qualities in the given space.

Day 04

Workshops with NAVARS. Today we learnt how to use sound editing software such as Audacity, Reaper and GarageBand. It also enabled us to come up with ideas for eventual final output - sound - responsive installation.

Day 03

This day we got to listen to the sounds we recorded the day before. We have been asked to produce the photo collage of sound site analysis from the previous day therefore within my group we considered archetypal, keynote, signal sounds alongside circulatory and human sounds and semantic effects. The final output of this task is a map made of overlaid analysis of each sound qualities transformed into beautiful photo collage.

Day 02

Having collected the recording equipment, we headed to our sites in order to acknowledge the sounds that constitute them. We started in Afflecks where we heard mostly music and sales staff. Afterwards, we moved on to St. Peter's Square which was surprisingly loud keeping in mind that it is the Central Library site. Maintenance construction work and trams dominated the soundscape of the site which we tried to recognise from different key points on the site - entrances to the main buildings (Central Library, Midlands Hotel and offices around the square). Our next destination was the roundabout with nature surrounded by cars and eventually we reached Whitworth Art Gallery which allowed us to explore the differences of the quality of the sound in spaces of different volumes.

Day 01

After having split into smaller groups of 4, we were distributed the sites from which we chose 1 of each category for further analysis. The categories were public realm, transport hubs and two types of interior spaces. We decided to analysis the roundabout under the Mancunian Way behind the MMU Business School, St. Peter's Square, Whitworth Art Gallery and Afflecks Palace.