Shootyourstudio

SHOOTYOURSTUDIO is a blog on design studios. Product design, art, architecture, photography, fashion and music studios. Actually any kind of place where something creative is going on.

Tall Tales: Year One installation at Other Worlds

Year one are collaborating with writer / architect Mike Halliwell to create an installation as part of the "Other Worlds" exhibition at the Story Museum. (May 1-31). The installation entitled "Tall Tales" involves a vista of towers, shadows and projections speaking of possible and ever shifting futures. The towers were designed in response to a request by The Story Museum to imagine a new tower emerging from their building.

Bjoern Ewers.

Photographer and art director Bjoern Ewers has photographed the interiors of musical instruments for the Berlin Philharmonic, revealing their architectural and spatial qualities.

Berlin calling...

We criss-crossed Berlin for five days, taking in Koolhaas, Eisenmann, Chipperfield, Scharoun, I M Pei, Sauerbruch and Hutton, Schinkel, Neimeyer, Aalto, Mies and much more as we went. We saw the ice thaw across the city. Some listened to John Cage and some to German techno!

audiograft

Don't miss out! Sound art on your doorstep. "audiograft" is an annual festival of Contemporary Experimental Music and Sound Art curated by the Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) at Oxford Brookes University. SARU provides a focus for dialogue between the fields of Composition and Sound Art; including acousmatic, collaborative, electroacoustic, experimental, interdisciplinary and site-specific practices alongside engagement with field recording, and soundscape studies.

Folk in a Box

Folk in a Box: The Making of! from David Knight on Vimeo.

Link HERE

Painting in Sound

Documentary on a collaboration at the National Gallery between wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, students from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, professional musicians and sounds artists. The project began with audio guides for paintings selected by the artists, and then developed into an event involving a live sound mix in the gallery to accompany a tour of the paintings with an art historian. NATURE uses these events to explore how painters use a range of techniques to excite the viewers senses; not only the visual sense, but the senses of smell, touch and perhaps most poignantly, hearing. Listen again at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01bllx9

must see exhibition in London

Check out Templehoff Airport paintings and installations at White Cube

Also check out Bermondsey Square, public space designed by East.

Device Workshop

Fourteen signposted cameras as snapper devices capturing the life of Warneford Meadow for 24 hours. Many thanks to Nick Green of Urban Toy Chest for organising this workshop. See link for other results of this project across Europe: www.urbantoychest.wordpress.com

Listen to this....

The Train in the night by Nick Coleman is a book describing the journey into deafness and the hearing of spaces through memory. You can hear it on iplayer this week. See link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b90bt

Sound Workshop at Exeter Chapel

Many thanks to Laurie Cottam and a capella group "Out of the Blue" for their wonderful sound workshop: resonant frequencies, building as instrument and singing pianos!

Warneford Meadow site visit

Drawing a sound section through Warneford Meadow, site of this semester's project to design an Oratory.

Alvaro Siza Sings

Siza sings | Film by Fernando Guerra from últimas reportagens on Vimeo.

Storytelling chair workshop at local school

Many thanks to Issy, Kiera, Katie, Lisa and Fartun for running a fantastic workshop to design a storytelling chair for New Marston Primary School. Inspirations ranged from "I want to sit on a moon" to "a chair for 200 people".

Albertopolis Exhibition at V+A

This exhibition charts the development of South Kensington and Prince Albert's ambitious cultural aspirations, charting its development to the present day Exhibition Road Cultural Quarter.