Contact-mic building workshop, co-taught with Michael Prior, at Testing Grounds

the poetics of connection, immediacy + restraint: ground to ground, crystal to signal.

Between 13-14 August 2018, myself and the Naarm Melbourne based sound artist Michael Prior took a 2 day workshop with students enrolled in the course Sound, Screen and Materiality at RMIT University, on building and using a contact mic for recording, at Testing Grounds. 

We emphasised collaboration, skill-sharing and DIY, technological simplicity and access, and the ownership and transparency of artistic tools. There was a lot of great experimentation.

Here is some (anonymised) photo-documentation of the students' efforts.