and here's the company fabricating the dishes - perfect. Fingers crossed for two now, just getting the okay for their location...

It's been a while but lots has been going on. Firstly, a workshop with 10 great children at Neilds School. We discussed sounds, went on soundwalks, recorded soundwalks and generally had some fun. A big thank you to all the pupils, staff and Heidi (from HCMF)! Here we are having some fun with listening dishes:

Secondly, it was time for me to really get acquainted with the location. I spent a lot of time wandering about, taking photos and making recordings to establish a strong connection with the place. Really good quality time for research and thinking. It is a really beautiful place - especially at 4am!

Also met and was interviewed by Oli Jones who's putting together a series of short videos and other exciting stuff for HCMF - will put a link to it from here as soon as it's ready.

Well, it's time for me to get cooking in the studio with all the material I recorded and to start designing the audio and walk that will accompany the experience of visiting the installation. Feels good to be at this stage.

Some rapid progress was made recently by Desmond researching the dishes. After considering other materials (including fibreglass and concrete) I really wanted one last shot at finding someway of casting these large dishes out of metal. And Desmond came up trumps with a foundry that can manufacture the dishes in aluminium (which wikipedia tells me is the most abundent metal in the earth's crust)

But they (probably) aren't going to look like these early models, and there'll (probably) be only one. Having re-visited the site, I currently thinking that there's only room for one and want it elegantly rising from the ground rather than being housed in any structure. We'll see...