The Art of Noises. A talk and performance
Leighton Buzzard has/had a 'Pop up' Arts Centre in the old Wilkos store on the High Street. This is a fantastic space and resource for the town. The organisation is Culture Co:LB
This you tube video shows the space and explains it's aims.
https://youtu.be/7J9YP-gvEcU?si=YnLx6OAtdp6jad2b
and Culture Co:LB's website is here.
The group is looking for proposals for events so I submitted a talk and demonstration of my machines. Something I've been meaning to do for a long time.
The talk and demonstration was well received and the Art centre described it as a great event, with over 30 people attending. However I didn’t think it went well. I found it very stressful. My laptop wouldn't connect to the projector to show my power point presentation, so I had to convert it to a PDF and up load it to a shared drive to be linked and downloaded on another laptop, which sounds easy now I'm explaining it but I up loaded an unfinished earlier version. Doing all this meant I couldn't properly sound test my machines so the performance aspect was poor. It was like being back in the classroom with the everything going wrong and out of control. Oh and a school inspector is about to enter!
Needless to say I did not get to properly record the event. Here's a clip of the confusion, thankfully John Garrad artist and musician was on hand to drive the performance along.
Anyhow I've learnt a lot from this experience for Art of Noises 2! Many thanks to the Culture Co: LB for giving me this opportunity.
