Gen Doy New Collaborations Bursary 2014

Yesterday Lynn and Lucy and I met to discuss the final work made as part of the new collaborations bursary, the sound and video work on Greenham Common. Lucy gave me advice on the sound and voice part of the soundtrack, which was all recorded on the Common, and we discussed some general questions about the research behind the project and its development at the editorial stage.
However it has become clear to me that although I collaborated with Lynn and with Lucy, it was never a proper collaboration between all three of us at the same time. But perhaps this isn’t surprising, on reflection.
Although this wasn’t said in so many words, it looks as if we will continue to collaborate but in the same manner ie. me and Lucy, and me and Lynn. But this has been a very useful experience and Lucy has offered to come with me to sing and do other things with our voices outdoors in future. Lynn and I will also do something in the future, but I feel that the way she likes to work is more confident than mine, and she likes to make her work before showing it to people. But we actually make very nice work together though it’s probably in a kind of “organic” way, rather than by sitting down together and looking at work in progress. Lynn made a great job of editing the video footage from Greenham Common to go with my soundtrack, and it really worked well, the three of us thought, in terms of what the bursary proposal had set out to do ie investigate relationships of sounds and images.
So thanks to a-n for this bursary. It’s progress was a bit up and down but we all learnt something worthwhile and produced a good bit of work (and some stuff that still needs developing!)