Key priorities

List of my key identified priorities

1. Display stand and technical requirements
Design plan complete (3D sketch - to source company to construct, plastics online? phone tomorrow)
Audio mix arranged: with Chris Bailey in his studio (booked date: Saturday 12th November)
Loan of audio equipment from Absolute Music (Chris to contact Andy Leg re: sennheiser headphones etc, will phone this week)

2. Narrative book (include bibliography on back pages, proforma text in front)
Quote from Masters Bookbinding (http://www.mastersbookbinding.co.uk/)
Need final page count
Currently working on layout and content
(expected dates to work on, ideally get as close to completion as possible ready for edit checking: friday 4th - sunday 6th November)
Proforma submission to tutor: 8th November
Bibliography: final update and edit (dates to be completed: end of november booked leave friday 25th - friday 2nd)
Current spec:

Hard back cover (thermo ink or black foiling of lettering / soundwave eps on black matte)
170mm w x 195mm h
Full colour
Estimate 60 pages (tbc)

3. Reflective journals

YR2 lacking July - August update
(expected date to complete: end of november booked leave friday 25th - friday 2nd)
YR1 complete mess - needs tidying in to a coherent mess
(expected date to complete: end of november booked leave friday 25th - friday 2nd)

4. Artefact

I'm still not sure on this. At all.
Trying to stay away from shiny object syndrome that tutor Liz warned me I was falling in to, focusing too much on the product and the technical requirements of the manufacturing etc. Losing the 'spirit' of the idea, what is at the core.

Thought from Dazz on the latest idea literally just starting to think on.
"Evolution of the earplug" using the evolution of man as a starting point for the communication of the idea. All the different earplugs and how they have evolved.

(original website source: evolution of man )

What does it say?
Progression? Boring to fun. Evolution. Iteration of ideas. One idea to the next. Works both for my idea and the project as a whole?
Has a point, but it still doesn't really work, people don't really use or like very much despite all these iterations over the years. What is next (slot at the end for 'headphix')

Hardback bookbinders

Iteration :-( Motion printing are unable to do hardback book binding for my exhibition book, I'm going to need to source another company asap...
Here's the first to try, need a quote and turnaround time, and a final page count!
Masters bookbinding
Priority tonight, get all the page layouts for content in my book finished.

Website banner progress & 3am inspiration

Can't believe I had this image idea for the showcase of my project on the exhibition website, at 3am in bed this morning. I couldn't sleep without drawing it first. Not sure about the random artefact idea, but I imagined a lot of fine glowing led wires (like fiber optic) with the earplugs fed on to the end - lit up like some delicate hedgehog ball of earplugs. Random... but I still need a final artefact for the display stand so I'm making notes of absolutely anything that pops in my head now.

Glad I made the effort to write all this down though, has worked out quite well as I finalised the banner design today and have just submitted to Pete Otto to update on the website.
MA Applied Imagination exhibition website

Email to Pete:

date:30 October 2011 14:02
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Hey Pete,
Attached as follows for website:

Horizontal web banner image: 700x263 pix (spec I found in an email from hun) - just made image today after an idea hit me at 3am this morning and I had to grab paper and pen in bed :-)
Teaser text ideas for banner quote: Enjoyable protection? 
Updated research question: "How can hearing protection in nightclubs be a more desirable product?"

Hope this is all okay, thanks muchly Pete.
Take care, Rach.x 

"Enjoyable protection?"

Exhibition display contact?

Plastic Online

Contact for possible sponsorship / construction for exhibit?

Email to Nick Mayne (referred by Liz Breuck, HSL)

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date24 October 2011 18:33
subjectReferred by Liz Brueck, HSL (re: hearing protection in music/club​s)
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My name is Rachel Dunscombe and I'm studying for my MA in Applied Imagination at London Arts Central Saint Martins.

My project is specifically targeting hearing protection in nightclubs as this is a heavily identified problem for clubbers, and how a new approach could actually improve the experience of using hearing protection products and give protection a completely new "image".
I have been liaising with Action on Hearing Loss (previously RNID) and they have given me copies of their 'Don't Lose the Music' and 'Like it Loud' campaign reports. I have also had involvement and feedback from other companies including HSL (Health and Safety Laboratory).
To focus on the target audience, I have also been getting feedback from the clubbing community worldwide, and from professional DJs in the industry including Jono and Tony from Above and Beyond, Dennis Shepherd and Tobias Schuh (Cold Blue) who has also circulated my idea across the german trance forums.
My idea for a new type of protection product has had a wide range of very interested and extremely positive feedback, and is also being supported by Liz Brueck (Senior Noise Scientist, Health and Safety Laboratory) who has identified my proposed idea as a breakthrough in the entertainment industry that has not been done before. I am in the process of getting the patent and legal protection in place. I am also receiving support from other named individuals and also the Ministry of Sound in London.

Liz Brueck advised me of how you led a kent wide initiative to control occupational exposure in music and entertainment venues, as well as an initial project in canterbury researching the attitude of people regularly attending loud venues.  She also explained that you contacted local hospitals and medical professionals concerned with hearing to ask whether they were seeing people with hearing problems linked to exposure to music. I was therefore hoping you may have some thoughts or advice for me, or ways in which your findings may be able to assist or interrogate my own research and product idea.

My final exam / graduate exhibition is on the first week of December, therefore if you could get back to me as soon as possible if you are interested and have any available time for a chat, that would be ideal.

I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks, Rachel.

Email to Andrew McKenna and Jonathon Dicken

to andrew_mckenna@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk,
Jonathon.Dicken@stockton.gov.uk

date 24 October 2011 17:22
subject Referred by Liz Brueck, HSL (re: hearing protection in music/clubs)
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Dear Andrew and Jonathon,

My name is Rachel Dunscombe and I'm studying for my MA in Applied Imagination at London Arts Central Saint Martins.

My project is specifically targeting hearing protection in nightclubs as this is a heavily identified problem for clubbers, and how a new approach could actually improve the experience of using hearing protection products and give protection a completely new "image".
I have been liaising with Action on Hearing Loss (previously RNID) and they have given me copies of their 'Don't Lose the Music' and 'Like it Loud' campaign reports. I have also had involvement and feedback from other companies including HSL (Health and Safety Laboratory).
To focus on the target audience, I have also been getting feedback from the clubbing community worldwide, and from professional DJs in the industry including Jono and Tony from Above and Beyond, Dennis Shepherd and Tobias Schuh (Cold Blue) who has also circulated my idea across the german trance forums.
My idea for a new type of protection product has had a wide range of very interested and extremely positive feedback, and is also being supported by Liz Brueck (Senior Noise Scientist, Health and Safety Laboratory) who has identified my proposed idea as a breakthrough in the entertainment industry that has not been done before. I am in the process of getting the patent and legal protection in place. I am also receiving support from other named individuals and also the Ministry of Sound in London.

Liz Brueck advised me of a project that you both led across the Tees Valley local authorities to raise the awareness of the risks to hearing in music and entertainment venues. to hearing in music and entertainment venues. I understand that this report has not been released outside the local government but that I may be able to request a copy of this document via Andrew. I was really hoping you could supply me with a copy of this report, it would be absolutely invaluable to support my research and my project. If I could have a brief chat to either of you about it too so you could pass on your thoughts, that would be fantastic.

My final exam / graduate exhibition is on the first week of December, therefore if you could get back to me as soon as possible and ideally a copy of the report by early november that would be ideal.

Please get in touch if you wish to know more about either myself or my project first.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks, Rachel.

Response from Sam (Ministry of Sound)

 from Sam Barlow sbarlow@ministryofsound.com 
to Chris Thoms <cthoms@ministryofsound.com>

cc "cwrmori@gmail.com" <cwrmori@gmail.com>

date 24 October 2011 17:19
subject FW: sound recording at ministry for MA
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 Important mainly because of your interaction with messages in the conversation.

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Hi Chris, an ex student of mine Rachel, is writing her dissertation and would love to do some Sound level recordings when the club is open and trading. The details are below.

Chris, can you please get in touch with Rachel to discuss whether this is possible and if so the logistics.

Chris meet Rachel
Rachel, Chris

Love to all

Sam


Sam Barlow
DJ Academy Co-ordinator
Ministry of Sound