The Marvelo Project

 

The Marvelo Project studies, makes and plays with sound, mapping and collective composition for mobile performance, making new music for outside spaces that plays from sonic bikes as you pedal. It was the project that saw the birth of the first sonic bike.

 

The Marvelo music grew from a three week collaboration between nine local eleven year olds from the Folkestone Academy, teachers Ross and Maria Johnson, local artist Lisa Hall and Kaffe Matthews.

Installing a creative sound laboratory in Folkestone, together they explored location and maps, identifying routes and personal histories within the town, going onto the streets to listen and record, coming back to the Lab to slash and mix sound pieces from their findings. Run as a collective sound atelier, ideas were drawn and developed together and alone. Taking frequent walking, swimming, cycling and ‘listening’ trips the group worked as field researchers, constantly referring back to and developing their maps as scores, and findings as music back in the Lab.

MARVELO SOUND LAB, PROCESSES AND PEOPLE LOGGED HERE

The Marvelo Project was commissioned by the Folkestone Triennial 2008, curated by Andrea Schlieker, facilitated by Niamh Sullivan of the Creative Foundation, and was open from 14.6. – 14.9.08. DETAILS .