Day 5 and week 1 summary

Day 4 had felt like a bit of a dip, but I think that this was partly because we were all tired and also in need of quiet time to reflect on the next step. So the work that I did felt very tentative in the sense that I didn't know where it was going. On Friday it felt like there was a fresh impetus to move forward. Ronan went away and wrote in the Green Room - I asked him to approach it almost as automatic writing and to write what came to him having absorbed the previous day's work. In the afternoon we all worked together in Studio 3 on Dave's project - he set up the basic elements of a drum kit (two drums and a bass drum with foot pedal) and a mic and we explored the extraordinary and occasionally painfull world of feedback. Ewan stood at the mic trying to speak into it while Dave coaxed feedback to interrupt him - we played around with various set-ups (drums played by separate players one on either side and the third behind Ewan, all in a line behind Ewan) and different intentions for the interrupted speaker. The feedback behaved very strangely, seeming to actually move around the room, sometimes vibrating the floor astonishingly.

The week as a whole seemed to have worked - everyone had worked with everyone else at some point and I could already sense the crossovers that were starting to happen. Next week we'll all get very focused on the showing.