Hotwire x Holst

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

Hotwire co-hosted an evening of 360 Full Dome multi-sensory DiY 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

In this workshop involves making “performed” sound collages. Sound doesn’t mean ‘music’ necessarily – it includes music, but also: noise, spoken word and anything else you can hear. Some of the sounds you can use may be from existing sources – for example: youtube, websites, archival recordings, or sampling the music of Holst – but you can also use new sounds – poems, quotes, music instruments, handclaps, singing, humming, sound effects…

Here are some ambisonic b-format sound files from the Hotwire x Holst workshop on the 4th December.