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Steamer Lane ( from left to right) David Martin, Alex MacCambley and Alan Forrester
Time of our Lives…challenging perceptions of older people
We were just about to start filming the soft rock group Steamer Lane on Saturday in the middle of Stirling when they started: the South American pan pipers with all their amplifiers going full blast.
Try competing against that!
I had this tremendous sense of deja- vu. Ten years ago in my Degree show at
Glasgow School of Art I had installed a sound installation “Duet” of birds singing and a cat purring. It was a lyrical piece and it was set up in the Loggia, top of the Macintosh building.
Suddenly from the “Hen Run” adjoining I hear shots. The student next to me had installed a Western style shooting gallery as his degree piece…. I had to find a new space sharpish.
Well, we did get the filming done, once the South American players stopped for an early afternoon siesta but this is one of the problems when you are working with sound and in a public space.
You have got to be prepared to think fast and find solutions.
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