Music Box Migrations
Video documentation from exhibition at m8show, OVADA gallery, Oxford, Oct 2008
Piano Migration II is 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. There is currently an online version of this piece being developed 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.
