When I spoke about the idea of the pipe piece I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. I felt like a bit of a cheat using an existing technique so I wanted to think of a new way to create the same act of interaction. Mainly aimed at adults I found myself looking into the use of technology.
I thought that rather than using pipes I could use microphones and speakers, after all even though I was looking to use pipes as a material it was the distance between the two people speaking which interested me. So I came up with the idea of having two different areas within the exhibition space, each of these areas would contain a microphone and a speaker. Each microphone would be connected to the opposite spaces speaker, so that when somebody spoke in Area A, their voice would be heard in Area B and when spoke in Area B they would be heard in Area A. I expected that when people walked into each space they would be slightly confused, however I hoped that once a voice would heard they would begin to ask questions about the piece to the people in the opposite area, this would then begin the interaction and hopefully a conversation may start.
I quite liked this idea however I didn't like the fact that I was bring technology back into mix, so far with my pulley and cup phones they held a certain childlike simple charm and I wondered whether by bring in technology the idea lost its playful side.
I would have liked to have created this piece however with exams and deadlines looming for the A levels getting and setting up this equipment isn't the easiest job.
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