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Site-specific audio development
Site-specific audio development
This project aims to help build the skills I need to enhance my creative projects. I'll be attending workshops, courses, and throwing audio paint at an immersive canvas and seeing what sticks.
Having previously developed work for Amplify Festival at Nottingham Playhouse, been Innovate Artists at Lincoln Arts Centre, and creative award nominated podcast, Annis McGee and Harry Smith are developing new skills to create audio site specific performances.
We'll be using this funding to grow our knowledge of creative immersive work, blending audio into site specific environments. The project will follow the attending of workshops, developing of skills, and working towards baking access into our work. The project will see us tangibly develop our skills in sound design, immersive theatre making, and creating work in non performance venues.
We want to create pieces that explore unconventional spaces, letting audiences traverse not just the physical space but the audio ones we will create. We'll be building on our previous work, and creating new pathways to make a proof of concept that can be developed into our practice.
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£5,000
Aims of the Project
During the course of the project, we’ll be aiming to develop our skills and practice to create the foundations of new immersive audio performances.
We’ll be working towards creating work in unconventional spaces, be it churches, old shops, or strange alleyways you pass on your way from home.
We’ll be buying equipment, attending workshops, working with peers and mentors to build our skills in creating immersive work.
Meet the artists
Annis McGee
Lead artist
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Annis is a freelance creative, building new worlds and blending audio into site specific environments. As a theatre maker, they focus on telling human stories in inhuman ways.
They work as a freelance creative in the Midlands as a producer, illustrator, and working with In Good Company; the Midland’s Artist Development Network. They’re a big speculative fiction fan, book lover, and all-round helper of getting stuff done.
They’re incredibly excited to be working on this new project, developing new skills to help build their new worlds.
Harry Smith
Harry Smith is a creative working in the midlands, focusing on immersivity through all mediums.
Originally starting with a project creating horror-themed game theatre, with an improvised soundtrack, Harry has worked as a creative, actor, and producer with a focus on capturing the tension of authentic immersion within any work, and has also written and performed with Midlands-based Chronic Insanity.
