Music Box Migrations
Video documentation from exhibition at m8show, OVADA gallery, Oxford, Oct 2008
Music Box Migrations are for a winding music box.
Images of birds, bird migration patterns and maps are printed directly onto strips of card. Holes are punched according to points on the images, or chosen points on the map. The holes trigger notes when the score is wound through the music box - creating unexpected melodies. The audience are invited to map journeys they have made onto music box strips, thus creating more scores to be played, and creating a space for conversations about journeys travelledf in the past, or journeys that are wished to be made in the future.
An online version of this piece has been developed by Ed Holroyd so people can map journeys and images to play on a virtual music box, and also listen to routes other people have mapped.
The music boxes are from The Music Box Shop in Whitchurch, near Bristol, UK.
