bridge creek Quakers Hill seedpods well wobbly Wyndham College

Today we hit the road for Wyndham College in Quaker’s Hill. We were greeted with great hospitality, cups of tea, trays of sandwiches, and some excellent year 11 art students who assisted us with the workshops. Seedpods, a wobbly bridge over the creek, and an old well were our musical instruments…
Check out all the photos over
here.
frogs musical heads Redfern The Block workshops

Tony, one of the guys who helped out down at The Block in Redfern on Saturday. He had an amazing head for music, in more ways than one. Besides modulating sounds by striking his skull with the xylophone mallet, Tony could make a metal grate sound like a frog…
[more pix from Redfern excursion
here.]
bruce drums Kingsgrove North recycling sound workshops 
At Kingsgrove North, teacher Betty Siourounis set us up in the quadrangle, where we welcomed dozens of curious students from the Support Unit and mainstream classes during the course of the day.
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jj cahill workshops
Today we went out to the JJ Cahill Memorial High School School in Mascot. It was our first school workshop, and it was a great success. Tons of photos (a few here) and some fabulous sound recording was made by a bunch of excellent students. Big thanks to Peter Rouse from the school for making it all possible. (More to be posted here once we’ve had a few hours sleep!)
interior Michael moody photographs preparations testing
Michael in the van testing the download of photos. From 25th October, when the caravan was first installed on the front lawn of the MCA, for testing.
bruce JJ Cahill justine lucas panorama project info scouting sites

We discovered this orange flag in the grass when we went out to the JJ Cahill Memorial High School in Mascot.
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