Just back from a really enjoyable few days in Bristol working on the sound and images for Tom Bailey's play The Softening of MAO-A.
FERMENT takes place in the smaller theatre under the Old Vic in Bristol and is a showcase for "new ideas and works in progress". MAO-A was another Mechanical Animal Corporation production - the last one I worked on was Und in February.
For this play I had to create a slideshow (something like 150 slides) mostly with accompanying sound. Around 50 of the slides are a kind of humorous "mind experiment" on the audience. They seemed to get a few laughs anyway, which was the intention. Unlike Und, all of the audio and visuals were prepared in advance (in the two days before the performance!) so my second foray into theatre was purely digital this time, rather than purely acoustic as it was last time.
It was really lovely being back in Bristol - particularly as the weather was good and I got to see lots of people from the Und production and work with Tom again, as well as meeting new people - Ed, Vic, Caroline and Kim for starters.
And many thanks to Tom's parents for putting me up this week.
If I am honest I didn't really want to come back to London!
And... Miss Chown, where were you last night?!?
