On the 8th of May we met with Olly Wickes from DBS so dicuss the projects explaining to him our concept and ideas for the exhibition at this initial stage Olly seemed very enthusiastic about the project. We discussed equiptment and how this could be rented from DBS as part of the collaboration whilst students worked with us in collaboration on the sound pieces. We came away form this meeting feeling very pleased with the projects development. After the meeting we emailed Olly to find out if he had got any further with sourcing a quote for the equiptment hire, as we were very aware the college had no funding and we would have to fund this money ourselves. Also we were interested to see if any students had expressed an interest in the project ad when we could meet them to begin the sound recording.
In reply we received this message:
I met with the interested parties yesterday to discuss this. Many of the students are approaching the end of their course so are unable to commit, however I have got a couple of people who are very keen to at least take the lead on the recording and composition of the audio. Our Live sound students will then plan to install a distributed sound system in the Orangery for the duration of the exhibition. At the moment we have still not worked out a definite quote, but I will get this to you in the next few days.
I think we should arrange for a meeting at Saltram to do the recording in the next couple of weeks. I’ll arrange with them to book out some equipment and we can rendezvous there, have a chat about the sort of things you want recording and get stuck in!
At the moment Thursday 29th looks good, so let me know if that suits you all and I will confirm with the students our end.
All the best,
Olly
Artist As Curator 