dearraindrop @ art city
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008I wanted to have this post up sooner but was thwarted by my attempts to embed video on WordPress (still have not solved, despite the use of several plugins).
Here’s what I wanted to say: on Saturday past, Art City and Send + Receive cohosted a workshop led by U.S. art collective Dearraindrop.
We covered a huge piece of white paper with paint, crayons, markers and sticker vinyl. Then we took Dearraindrop’s colour readers, recorded samples of voice, toy accordion, recorders, or anything really, into them and then waved the devices over the colours. The devices read the colours and translated them as sounds, versions of the samples we had inputted, varying pitch and speed depending on the colour. (For instance, we found that waving the sensor over dark blue rendered a sound that was truest to the original sample recording; other colours made it squeak or bellow.)
1. The Dearraindrop Gang 2. Devon & Aaron 3. Mark 4. My part of the mural
Everyone collaborated. Also fun was playing with Dearraindrop’s musical instruments, where you can input sound into the microphone and then mess around with the playback, like on the riotously painted guitar you see my brother playing at the end of the video. (Click to watch.)
