In the months before our 3 day sounding lab we sporadically exchanged references that excited us, stuff we’d read, artists that interest us, workshops we’d led or attended, observations from making new work..
references included: Denis Smalley – Spectromorphology: explaining sound shapes (1997 Camb Uni Press); Undercurrents: the Hidden Wiring of Modern Music (continuum/The Wire); SOUND edited by Caleb Kelly (Whitechapel Gallery); Notations 21 – Theresa Sauer (http://www.notations21.net/); The Phenomenology of Perception – Merleau Ponty (Routledge)
..all things we were subconciously storing as background for finding our collaborative space together which we reached into on our first day: sharing influences, sharing practice, triggering conversation through reading outloud .. adjusting to being in a soundproof room (that surprisingly had it’s own weird clicks) and sensing our way towards collaboration.
We left a digital recorder on continuously while we worked inside and outside, so that we were free to make the most of these moments of moving towards collaboration and of creating the beginnings of a joint methodology.
