Popuppeoplemusic
Pop Up People was an action research project, funded by Arts Council England with crowdfunding support from the High Street Hundred. In January 2012, students in BA(hons) Degree Music Composition for Film and Media at [Northbrook College], Worthing were given an insight into the findings of the project - and asked to create music inspired by empty shops. These compositions form a soundtrack to Pop Up People.
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Bethany Ash
http://soundcloud.com/bethany-ash/empty-rough-demo
nb Not a BA(Hons) student - but a student at Davison High School, Worthing
Paul Hamlin:
"I Decided to create a journey from the time before the recession hit when everything was all rosy, through to recession and the vacation of shops. Then on to the energy that the empty shops project has created by putting new life into shops.
To get a feel for the project I visited as many old shops as possible to understand the feeling of emptiness they create. I also recorded sounds from my local supermarket."
http://soundcloud.com/paulhamlin/exhausted
Stevie T:
http://soundcloud.com/steve-t-composer/a-meditation-on-empty-shops-1/s-P9QBg
Mockridge Media Music:
"I like how the Pop Up People report distinguishes a problem and creates the first steps towards a solution by revealing it to other people. I wanted my music to reflect a sort of change in heart, and change in action once people were reading it"
http://soundcloud.com/mockridgemediamusic/empty-shop-blues
Ken Zachrisson Music:
http://soundcloud.com/ken-zachrisson-music/kallt-v-der
Terence James Dunn
The piece is to celebrate the advent of pop up / empty shop projects. It begins with real instruments (some home made!) and follows the transition from organic idea with representation of cottage industry, evolving into the commercial machine then shifting to the birth of further opportunity.
I have included samples of live chickens - a tip of the hat towards successful pop up shop entrepreneurs 'Fresh Egg' along with the recorded heartbeat of my sisters unborn baby; I was sent it as a phone message the other day and it seemed fitting to include, especially as new opportunity is being born out of some of our redundant shops
Music on a cassette, left in an empty shop in Worthing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23621367@N04/6795988261/in/photostream
You can hear it here
http://soundcloud.com/terence-dunn/from-the-footprint-of-progress
