Wednesday August 29th
I have never used streets and what I’ve discovered has happened there as score with such precision before. Having had to spend so much of this project listening, meeting and researching on site without functioning instruments to test with on the streets, (the audio bicycles), too much time has been spent in the Swamp studio, creating a massive body of material to work with. The problem now is that I’m wanting to be precise along these routes therefore with how things play back, so the technology has to be fully functioning to enable this. However, for the last 10 days, I’ve been having to spend 70% of time sourcing and fixing the problems that arise with things such as mapping software and editing GPS marked zones, GPS shadows on the street, oddities added into data files via email causing malfunction in code, mismatch between Mac and Linux systems, my complete lack of ability on any other platform apart from Mac, analysis via skype, volumes of sound, AIFF’s masquerading as WAV’s, incorrectly wired speakers, bike stands dropping off and the remote factor of any collaboration/support. We had not intended it to be like this. The surprised and grinning public as I occasionally test-cycle by, bleeping noise or tunes or old school electro-acoustic de Meester swathes amongst animal grunts not to mention timelab team, keeps the spirit going. Onwards.