In mid 2021 I received a small grant to develop a cultural delivery system prototype, to be tested in the streets of Bristol in early 2022.
Through a varying array of sensors and emitters controlled by Raspberry Pi there will be a Pandora’s box explosion of prose, reinterpreted to suit its surroundings, echoing across the city. The intension being to extend its impact through future upscaled iterations.
In this version Dylan Thomas’ masterpiece Under Milk Wood will be given a new lease of life through the voices of residents representative of the city’s diverse cultural heritage. Recorded outside their homes and places of work, the scenes will then appear as randomly ordered audible street projections; appearing at night, for only the solitary and silent.