7th May - with the two paintings 

 Check out: 

  • 9:15am - 11am 

    • Check in with DM team - various people 

    • Emailed Dav - need to arrange a 1:1 at some point. 

  • 11:30am 

    • Skype Meeting with Abigail 

    • Very accessible meeting with some logic learnings. 

  • 12:30pm 

    • Watched/listen to some music and arranged meeting with Michael 

    • 1:20pm - Meeting with Michael to talk all stuff access/jamming and experimental - sharing sounds etc. 

    • Have arranged a jamming session at 3pm tomorrow towards the theme we respond to for the month etc. 

  • 2: 55pm 

    • Abigail and me - meeting - about webinar 

  • 3:10pm 

    • Sort out webinar times etc. 

  • 3:15-4:15 

    • Coincidences/cosmic happenings continue when I send M a track and he knows the lead singer - it's a track I use in almost all the journeys. 

    • Will be using a track from Dav for the journeys, and M as well.

  • 4:15-5pm 

    • Also found something on A's website I might use too. 🙂 Very aware that I want to keep everything as accessible as possible for Sonia too so might fuse tracks to 1 journey so we only take 2 musical journeys and 2 journeys that don't require listening to music 🙂 

    • Sent stream of consciousness mp3 to Abigail. 

  • 5:20pm 

    • Will go on streaming walk - brain-heart-gut to spilled words. 

  • 6pm 

    • Plan to paint words tonight and start a bit later tomorrow. 

 

Friday 

  • 11am - 1pm 

    • Plan to mix words/play with gathered sounds 

  • 1-2pm lunch 

  • 2-3pm - research and webinar prep - around for chat etc. 

  • 3-5pm - Music jamming with Michael. (access) 

  • 5-5:30/6 - Write up notes/documentation. 

 

I'll add them in the Slack but wanted to share two paintings - one is made in response to the Hold music and the other in response to the office - I'm finding my painting is becoming so more incredibly vibrant since responding in the way I do so thank you all for that, the yellow one is a mouth with an entire landscape/environment inside it.. 

8th May 

Check out  

  • Worked on webinar prep. Will send play list to Sonia ahead of time.

  • What you need for my webinar/workshop:

  • In case you don't have these items - you will definitely need (any art materials but definitely at least 5 felt tips/pens/colouring pencils etc) : 

    • 10 pages of A4 or bigger paper (plain if possible)

    • cup or glass of water for your brain 

    • some writing paper/lined paper for 1 journey and ending ritual. 

    • knowledge that we won't be "making pictures "but going on a journey so good or bad doesn't exist in this workshop only mark making/paths and going places does 🙂 

    • Oh and headphones/earphones in case you need them. 

Art materials:

  • glass of water if using paint (I always forget to refill my glass even though I'm a painter so useful reminder 😉)

  • felt tips, pens, pencils 

  • 2 hours full on of recording towards the theme for me to be able to work with - over 10 notebook pages of stream of consciousness words written at all angles. 

  • Getting 2 hours of journeying/transcendent/surreal sounds sent to me for me to play with.

  • Dav and I are meeting on Monday for notes and logic practice and thought it a good opportunity to do matching my voice recordings to the music (or at least roughly so I can keep going/experimenting.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend,  

14th May 

Brilliant day today - fabulous work Gareth and everyone in the Listening Party and Round Table event - really great to converse with so many people - great conversations -  Is there any way of contacting the Emergents to congratulate them? 

 

  • I have been mainly working with Eluned and Dav today on a Document for playlist and access and making sure tomorrow will flow. 

  • I did make an art piece in response to the collaboration I did with Michael and the Listening Party today - posted it in general/notes.

  • Thank you Gareth for mentioning Calendar - I think I'll spend tomorrow putting everything into the calendar especially in terms of Abigail's email - should put it all there.) I'm finding navigating all the tasks/what we need to do /when a bit tough. 

  • But also - to do with this language/thinking processing/inundation of words ....

  • ... after I had a 1:1 with Dav, I reflected on how I could have made an entire webinar out of the way I process music and this processing is the driving force of how I respond and make it. You will experience some of this processing tomorrow through streams of conscious words - and Sonia'll experience a stream of consciousness movement/composition of imagery 🙂 

  • So it's been very busy and now I've got to jet off for an evening with a Sound Designer/Tech  for us to put together the Qlab for my cancelled shows for Brighton fringe in case October happens... in truth I'm not sure I want to do it because I feel I'm finding truth through my DM artist residency, in a way that lets me experiment.... differently. 

  •  .... I feel I'm finding more of my truth in these collaborations here when we make music.

Have a really lovely evening everyone, enjoy the show tonight. 

 

15th May - other people’s art. 

  • Lots of work before webinar - learned loads 

  • Learned that my "in the moment" way and "feeling the energy" can be as accessible for Sonia - and really valued Sonia's feedback about her experience of watching so that made me feel calmer about keeping it "live in the space" - like "live art" if you like. 

  • Made lots of notes off our meeting after - some very useful feedback 

  • Thank you for sharing so vibrantly through both the art and your own impressions/expressions - some very powerful work was made. Long may it continue - the idea is to give you tools to keep making art and exploring. 

 With permission from everyone - would it be okay if you might share 1-2 (or all but only if you want to - the decision is yours) of some of the art you made in the workshop - absolutely fine if you don't want to - this would be just for my own documentation - I wouldn't be sharing them openly but I'd be responding to them again artistically and through words/music.) 

I had a really beautiful day and thank you for letting me spill..... even though I know it's a tough symptom of my autism.... I'm feeling more able to express it with all of you and you understanding it is helping me come to terms with it - something I'm so often penalised for - and really value all of your support, insight and cosmic energy 🙂 

Have a lovely weekend, 

21st May 

Hi All, 

Gosh it's hot! Sauna temperatures! 

1) Worked with Becky on my personal development plan. Sent it over to Louis and Abigail for them to add in the information.  

2) Send my AtW access needs across to Dav and Louis 

3) Was rejected from Unlimited and another funding that I applied for Access support. 

4) Looked at various websites in relation to personal development and posted in an art piece for my documentation. 

5) Been doing loads of writing and recording for the Monthly question - it's too loud to record properly in my flat and need to buy the microphone Abigail recommended. 

6) Managed to get onto the //Wewillnotberemoved, slack when it didn't work for me 5x - 6th worked a charm. 

7) Now working on AtW form to send to Dav and Louis. 

Have a good evening, 

Elinor


Webinar 

Journey 1 - 5 -  15-20mins of making art to music/journeys 

Or watch the 3 videos - For deaf audiences 

(first three in the playlist) 

Music Journey - Videos

and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

 

Then there's a sharing (gathering)  - 15-20mins 

 

Journey 6-7 -  Song to the Siren/At the Window - tracks 

 

Video: At the Window 

 

These are about "Who is this person? Two different journeys - 1 short piece and 1 long piece - what are they trying to say? 

 

(15mins of music and space to make art) 

 

Then there's a sharing (gathering) 

(15-20mins)

 

Journey 8-10 (3 tracks from Pas de boogie woogie to Walk like an Egyptian)  - These are DANCES  - they should dance to the rhythm - so describe as dances - OR videos: 

 

15mins - 20mins of making art 

 

Videos - last two videos 

 

No sharing - we go straight into this: - Now, because Shared Audio means we lose my voice over the audio as I speak live over music - I have done it myself - but without software and being able to ask for help from anyone etc - if you think the levelling or sound is bad or wrong you can correct it - but I'm simply going to explain to them that 

 

Last/Final Journey: 

 

Go Straight into a visualisation: (This is a track I just edited - last track of the playlist) 

Guided/Ending Ritual - What colour has been left behind? What did the woman give you? 

These are tools for your practice. 

For the group chat:  

Welcome to Elinor's Webinar.  

Under Lockdown Elinor's lost access to her practice. She normally speaks live over music but because there was a request to share audio for this Webinar - it's meant she's had to pre-record her voice to soundscape and music. Because Elinor doesn't own any professional music equipment there will be a glitch or breathing into mic noise. 

 

We ask that you ignore the technical elements that "could be better and provide a better" experience because Elinor's working without access to DM's equipment and meeting requests of shared Audio. 

 

1) This is a relaxed workshop from the moment you enter but we can't let people in once the workshop begins due to the nature of the workshop being on Zoom. 

 

2) Basic guidelines: 

  • Journeying involves going on journeys and then coming into shares - you can participate as much or as little as you like - we ask that you feel you can, to leave your videos on. 

  • Any problems please don't chat in the group - message Michael directly as my laptop screen will be down. This time is to attend to your practice. 

  • Please be aware when you leave the meeting you won't be able to get back in so if you need to leave but want to rejoin, simply turn your audio and video off. 

  • Those who decided not to make art/write words are still very welcome to join in the shares. 

For audiences who are sensitive to or not able to hear sound: There is an option to watch videos instead of listen to music - this does mean you'll have to watch videos outside of the meeting so be sure to open an extra tab. 

 

Video link - please keep volume turned off for videos: - 

 

Please be aware the ENT takes breaks during our journeying so there are no subtiles when we journey. 

 

Schedule: 

10mins  - Intro to Journeying 

20mins  - 4 journeys (4 papers) 

20mins  - Gathering 

20mins -  Visionary Journeying (2 papers) 

20mins  - Gathering 

15-20mins - Dancing - 2 papers 

15mins - Guided Journey Visualisation (1 paper) 

 

This is a relaxed workshop - if you have any problems please contact Michael directly (Private Message) without support to access software for this webinar