SLOUNGE

The event last night at the Vaults was amazing. It was really great to get a sense of how people might respond to questions like ‘how do YOU prepare the perfect cup of tea?’ or where people might place irritating noises along the irritate-O-meter. See it there, covered in post-it notes…

All the voting on here (the blog I mean) is also really helpful and all these activities pertaining to irritating noise will really inform how we put together the top 20 irritating noises chart for the show.

The activity booklets were a hit with visitors and we got some really beautiful responses to what we had put together, including these amazing scores made from the stickers and DIY Musical Score page of the book, and some great colouring in on our cut-out-n-keep sound effects and colour-in-the-washing-up pages.

I had also published a picture/story in the activity booklet, concerning kind of the philosophy of listening to everyday sounds or collapsing the borders between ordinary sounds and what we think of as ‘Music.’ Here is the story and picture:

Little Scratchy Joy: I used to wish my piano-shaped pencil sharpener made a noise like a Piano but then one day I noticed how lovely the sound of a pencil sharpener can be. Now I look at pianos and wonder if they can ever sound like a pencil sharpener.

At SLOUNGE, a few people used the pencil sharpener to fill out their questionnaires or solve the crossword puzzle in the booklet.

We also gave out quite a lot of button badges and got into many conversations concerning the politics of washing-up.

The Mundane Appreciation Museum was also a popular activity. For this, one tags a mundane item and then photographs the item plus its tag and enters it into ‘The Mundane Appreciation Museum,’ an ephemeral archive of mundane items hosted by Mundane Appreciation. It’s another strategy for categorising or valuing things that may otherwise be considered worthless; another brilliant idea from Mundane Appreciation. Like this ‘very normal’ used tea bag;

or this broken adaptor.

I have some of these tags; if you would like some, I can mail you a couple in exchange for a photograph of your tagged item for the Mundane Appreciation Museum.

We also collected some boring sounds on the record cards we are using to archive people’s comments on such noises. If you can think of a noise that you find boring, I will enter it along with your comments, into the archive.

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