Hotwire x Holst

Wednesday 4 December 2024 Time: 5.00pm – 7.00pm in the Immersive Vision Theatre. 

Hotwire~ co-hosted an evening of multi-sensory DIY dome Experiences, talks, live performances and cybernetic installations as part of Holst Spaceship Earth – Transit of Venus, including running an Ambisonic Sound workshop with the MA Experience Design and MA Game Design students from University of Plymouth.

Hotwire~ is an Open Research Lab for playful experimentation with creative technology set up by Andrew Prior and David Strang. There are hotwire nodes in Plymouth, UK and Suzhou, China. We have performed, run workshops, and created installations worldwide. Hotwire is about art + technology, DIY, DIT and DIWO (Doing it Together / Doing it with Others), making / breaking stuff, hacking, creative coding and circuit bending, and more.

This workshop is part of the Holst Spaceship Earth project, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Gustav Holst. This event is a collaboration with PlayLa.bZ, the University of Plymouth, i-DAT, and Hotwire; and it’s happening at the Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT), a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of (im)material and imaginary worlds.

Overview

This workshop involved making “performed” sound collages. We didn’t mean ‘music’ necessarily – particpants worked with sound that included music, but also: noise, spoken word and anything they could hear. Some of the sounds even came existing sources – such as YouTube, websites, archival recordings, or sampling the music of Holst – but each each source was manipulated through its recording, acoustics, and changing aspects like speed, direction, cutting up samples and so on. Other elements included production of new sounds – poems, quotes, music instruments, handclaps, singing, humming, sound effects…