I told Dan my plans and ideas about the lit up (and modeled) woodland in Studio X. Which he liked, but so make it more Site Specific we agreed that the woodland shape will be based on a scaled down section of the Arboretum. I’m thinking just beyond the main entrance where the bandstand and the wonderful stone lion resides.

 

Also, we talked more in depth and the audio element, which has been slightly left behind lately due to the reformation of project etc. In a previous meeting Conan advised us on what questions we could use (see previous blogs to recap) yet he was a little worried that we might get one word answers. So both Dan and I thought long and hard on what Luke and I can do about this. In the end we came with this conclusion;

 

• Considering we have three MP3 players we could have a different question on each.

• As like for the single tree idea, we can record people’s stories of Lincoln on one. This will give longer answers so we would get three to four stories for MP3 player number 1.

• On another we can ask, “Where is your secret place in Lincoln?” These will more than likely will result in one to word answers, which if all the recordings of this question are put together it will sound interesting in it’s own right. So for MP3 player number 2, we’re thinking about having 20 to 25 sound clips.

• On the final MP3 player we can ask “Tell us a fact about Lincoln.” This may seem as a daunting question for some people who may not know anything about Lincoln, but those that do will be giving a new insight to the audience about Lincoln. So we think that we will get a sentence or two from each person so we can record about 10 sound clips for MP3 player number 3.

 

Now, to start creating this forest installation.