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Construction and design drawings by Martin Brockman
Notes from Underground
An innovative collaboration between
Stour Valley Arts and Music for Change
Environmental artist Martin Brockman and musician Lucky Moyo worked with a group of young people living in Kent throughout April and May 2007 in the ancient Kings Wood Challock Kent.
Inspired by ‘Score for a Hole in the Ground’, a sound sculpture created by Jem Finer in 2006 in the Wood, the group took part in workshops experimenting with construction and creating sound using materials found in the Wood. They conceived and built instruments and sound structures using traditional carpentry tools and joinery techniques.
They devised a unique performance using percussion, voice and dance, which received its public debut on 31st May 2007. The audience were then given a chance to try out the instruments and making sound in the forest, supported by the participants.
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Acknowledgements
Photo credits: Imogen Noble and Laura Thomas
Thanks to: We would like to thank the artists and the young people from St John’s RC School Gravesend, and KERAN Riverside Project Canterbury.
The project has been generously funded by Awards for All, KCC Rural Revival, the European Social Fund and Kent People's Trust.
Martin demonstrates making instruments to the audience
Performing on the Pit Marimba
Cake baked by young people at KERAN at Riverside to celebrate the project
Lucky leads the gumboot dance on performance day
Digging the Pit Marimba
Rehearsing on the Pit Marimba
Workshop in the rain
Experimenting with rhythm on the Flying Marimba
Experimenting with rhythm on the Hanging Marimba
Rehearsing the gumboot dance
Rehearsing at the Ring
Discovering new rhythms
Visiting Score for a Hole in the Ground on introduction day
Martin demonstrates the tools
Design for Log Marimba
Construction workshop
Inside one of the sound structures
Cooperative construction
Cutting the Log Marimba
Wood
Hollowing out
Cleaving I
Cleaving II
Twig Shaker
Rattle
Sawing
Drilling
Pitch Pipe
Log Marimba
Suspended Marimba
Hanging Marimba
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Construction and Design drawings by Martin Brockman
