Where the bee sucks, there suck I
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily:
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bow.
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As I say, I see myself as not only a scientist but as an artist. Or, more precisely, to be a true scientist is to be an artist, to dream, imagine, to hope and to discover and create the new. And the true artist is equally a scientist, moved by man’s plight and in search of a better world – that is, concerned with things that really matter rather than a hustler selling junk to intoxicate and anesthetize his fellow man, although this seems to make the money we so urgently need.
Some things we've been looking at, bouncing off, peering into... when you can detect gravitational waves: http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/this-is-what-gravitational-waves-sound-like.html http://web.mit.edu/sahughes/www/sounds.html http://www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~dlw24/ http://www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~dlw24/ http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20160213-0812-david_wiltshire_gravitational_waves_and_black_holes-00.ogg  Collaborator Dr Hazel Bradshaw introducing another way into the mind of Frankenstein... Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.  Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? We're exploring different creation myths and stories that relate to the idea of preordained destiny, it's rejection and the desire for change. Here, maybe, the Norns and the rope of destiny juxtaposed with Maui's challenge to Hine-nui-te-pō. The idea is that we work with the contributions of the collaborators towards a work that is still being discovered.
One of the major components for Frankenstein will be experimentation around sound. The others will relate to aerial work, puppetry and film. All in search of the perfect human being for our age - between the native body and modern cyborg... “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...” Workshops have recommenced for the Frankenstein project that we had planned for last year. It will be presented in June. We use the Shelley as a platform to begin an exploration: “The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.” Here's an image from last weeks training - working from our circle warm-up and adapting - breath, birth, ritual.  |
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