Here is a short piece of music I wrote for a series of photos that a friend of mine took of the Trinity Square car park as it was being torn down.
The car park was a landmark in Gateshead — famous for featuring in the 1971 film ‘Get Carter’. My friend lived in Gateshead, and would walk past the dissolving landmark every day. Watching it disappear was a shock — the kind Alvin Tofler talks about in his book ‘Future Shock’ in the way the landscape of the city can change. In the music, I wanted to try and reflect some of that distant change, some of that sadness and loss of something that you took for granted as always being there. But maybe, in the middle section, there’s also a little bit of hope about what might replace it (which was unwarrented — the new houses are horrible!)
This bring together photography and music, obviously, but it shows how creative research works as a network. Responding to the outputs that someone else has created in a different form can be a way of really expanding your groups research. There’s a famous quote — attributed variously to Laurie Anderson and Elvis Costello (among others) — “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. Well, if that’s true, then we’d love to see your groups dancing about architecture by combining different media together!